Spain ends the year 2024 with macroeconomic figures that are enviable for many European countries, whose anemic growth in France and Germany is hindering the future of the EU. The GDP in Spain could reach 3%, or even slightly more, inflation closes the year at 2.8% and Social Security affiliation has reached a maximum of 21.34 million affiliates in December. More jobs, of better quality, are created, although insufficient remuneration continues to cause bleeding cases of working poverty, not to mention the child poverty figures. The accumulation model continues to be unequal, unfair, unsustainable in some facets of transportation, not very inclusive for people with disabilities, and with great deficiencies in local public services, such as dependency, home care and care for the elderly.
The productive structure, although it has been corrected somewhat after the pandemic, is still too dependent on mass tourism, with enormous environmental costs, burdening the lives of neighbors and neighborhood businesses, and ruining many dreams of young people, immigrants and the middle classes. Time to find affordable housing. Access to housing is precisely the Achilles heel of this government, whose access policies have always collided with the fear of large investment funds and the ancestral inferiority complex that the left has when it reaches the big Ministries. Its solution, which will never come in the short term, should be the main budgetary objective, along with that of health and education at the regional level, to raise the famous productivity of the factors and reach the desired full employment, something that within this model of EU will never be achieved.
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