Camino Mortera

Camino Mortera

@caminomortera.bsky.social

EU affairs for Spain’s Prime Minister, 2024-2025. Before that, CER in London and Brussels. Now in Rwanda, thinking what comes next. Still unsuccessfully trying to head EU things.

5,066 Followers 838 Following 268 Posts Joined Oct 2023
1 week ago

Podríamos, y deberíamos, tener una conversación pública sosegada sobre dónde estamos, y donde queremos ir, en un mundo cada vez más dominado por la fuerza. Un debate pragmático, sin dramas. Nuestros aliados lo tienen bastante claro. Por mucho que no nos guste.

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1 week ago

Otra cosa diferente es que, como rara vez se habla de política internacional de manera seria, ni en el Congreso ni en ningún lado, no sea sencillo, ni para los españoles, ni para sus gobernantes, diferenciar entre intereses partidistas y nacionales.

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1 week ago

Nuestro peso histórico, económico, militar y cultural no deberían permitirnos esta abulia en la que llevamos instalados más de un siglo.

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1 week ago

Un estado que nos proporciona una falsa protección contra los acontecimientos mundiales. Que nos obliga a no posicionarnos, no alzar la voz y, por tanto, comportarnos como un socio menor en nuestras coaliciones.

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1 week ago

Se puede ser crítico con Trump e incluso se puede ser crítico con el Gobierno. Yo lo soy con ambos. Pero sacudámonos la idea de que España no puede, ni debe, pintar nada en política exterior. Es falaz y contribuye a alargar el estado de estupor en el que entramos a principios del S. XX.

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1 week ago

España es miembro de la OTAN y uno de los cinco mayores países de la UE. Debe actuar como tal, no porque lo diga Francia ni por no enfadar a Alemania. El apoyo a Chipre es parte de las obligaciones que adquirimos soberanamente. Cumplir con los compromisos de la OTAN, también.

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1 week ago

Si no sabes qué opina España sobre cualquier tema europeo, siempre haz lo que diga Francia y no contradigas a Alemania. Durante demasiado tiempo, esa fue, casi exclusivamente, nuestra posición en la UE. Muchos trabajamos para cambiarla. No deberíamos volver atrás.

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1 week ago
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(S+) Irankrieg: Spanien riskiert Bruch mit den USA Der spanische Ministerpräsident Pedro Sánchez verurteilt den US-Angriff auf Iran so deutlich wie kein anderer europäischer Regierungschef. Das ist politisch gefährlich – und hat Folgen für das amerika...

From earlier today. With some rather prescient comments from yours truly, if I may. www.spiegel.de/ausland/span...

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1 month ago
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Europe’s future: Grounds for hope? - Annual report 2025 The CER's annual report features an essay which analyses the many problems the EU faces, but concludes that it is not doomed.

A great essay by Charles Grant, where he dares questioning the zeitgeist: the going may be tough, but there are reasons to be optimistic about Europe.

Europe’s future: Grounds for hope? - Annual report 2025

www.cer.eu/about/annual...

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1 month ago

I am back.

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3 months ago

Surely you guys have already discussed at lenght her seminal experience with the Rome Club first report about sustainable economics and I am just never here to have been part of that conversation.

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3 months ago

Utterly late to this, but I am only at Merkel in her late 20s in ‘Freedom’ and this book is already teaching me more about the geopolitics of Europe over the past 20 years than any brainy conference or paper would.

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5 months ago
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Europapa

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6 months ago

(As I used to rant about back in Madrid, mostly to deaf ears: to be a leader, you need to have followers.)

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6 months ago

Fair piece, from an informed stand-point. We have been right on a number of issues (NATO’s random baseline target, Palestine, Ukraine), but we have been bad at building alliances, because Spain is still not doing foreign policy well.

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6 months ago
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/camino-mortera-martinez-33ab107_for-many-years-i-have-been-working-non-stop-activity-7368564244256145408-AIr9?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAFpBt4Bzo19zvGyH6sI_Qexy68jDXcD...

About me:

t.co/MuReVYr24e

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6 months ago
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Tuesday Kigali office

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6 months ago
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Now that I finally got some time to sit down this year, I am at last diving into this. As a Brussels veteran, I’ve been wary to open it. I have always had a complicated relationship with Merkel’s European legacy. Wonder whether this book will help.

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6 months ago

It is a (n old) Toyota!

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6 months ago

Ok, slightly revising this. Drove at rush hour for the first time today and the pixie thing looks like a piece of cake in comparison. More juicy updates like this one coming soon.

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6 months ago

Rwanda! Come visit!

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6 months ago

Also - meet my new car, Snake Porn.

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6 months ago
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I moved to Africa. And I am growing out my pixie. No doubts as to which one of the two will be tougher.

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6 months ago
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6 months ago
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Taking off to a new adventure kind of far away in a few minutes. More news coming soon!

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7 months ago
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Nos transformamos en Moeve YouTube video by Moeve

Buscando apoyo para mi obsesión con el irritante anuncio de los interruptores, una amiga ingeniera me enseñó este otro. Y ahora me preocupa que la Generación Z no sólo no sepa lo que es un interruptor, sino tampoco de dónde viene la energía fósil.

youtu.be/7glyTv7Wm1E

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8 months ago

Agreed. But there is no reforming the Lisbon Treaty.

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8 months ago

Which one of them? 😉

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8 months ago

Nah. Democratic deficit PHallacy all the way. Will be taught in History books 😉

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8 months ago

As if I had ever read any of these two people (one of whom I see often at the schoolgate and yet, curiously, never talk about the democratic deficit phallacy with a ‘PH’)

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