Model businessmen

A sum of efforts would allow Barcelona to take a leap forward as a reference in scientific research and the pharmaceutical industry

Esther Vera
1 min

There was a time in Catalonia when Javier de la Rosa was the model businessman. His connections with the Kuwaiti monarchy gave him access to the elites and to accounts in petrodollars. After a timely judicial ruling, de la Rosa couldn't avoid a prison sentence over the Tibidabo case. His fall from grace refreshed his memory and many listened and printed his claims of alleged payments of million-euro commissions to the PP and CDC, dotted with some bizarre stories, such as that of Adelina the seer, who advised statesmen using her connections with the hereafter.

De la Rosa appeared before the Catalan Parliament on Monday following Victoria Álvarez, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola’s ex-lover. Álvarez was used by Madrid’s “dirty tricks” unit to expose the business of Jordi Pujol's oldest son and thus put an end to the pro-independence movement --which they hoped would see the error of its ways and return to the straight-and-narrow path.

While the worst rogues monopolized the parliamentary sessions in Barcelona and Madrid --disgraced PP treasurer Bárcenas made an amnesiac appearance in the Spanish parliament--, some hundreds of businesspeople, academics, and researchers, along with the representatives of three administrations, were working their magic to bring the European Medicines Agency to Barcelona. It was a sum of efforts that would allow the city to take a leap forward as a reference in scientific research and the pharmaceutical industry. The best of our society. Now we only have to hope for Spain to act loyally, rather than letting the Agency go to Germany instead of Catalonia.

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