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  • The United Kingdom's exit from the EU is one of the issues that most concern this convinced Europeanist, a versatile woman with very clear ideas. In a few days he presents his latest book, Give Me Power Back, which gives a blow to the Spanish political class and cries out for the return of liberal values.

Miriam González is not staying idly by. Lawyer specialized in international trade, founder of the Inspiring Girls movement and wife of former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, this Valdisoletana (Olmedo, 1968) has decided to intervene in the battered Spanish reality, which she contemplates from her new home in Silicon Valley. And he does it through the book Give Me Power Back (ed. Peninsula), an implacable allegation against our political class, which in his opinion has acquired too much power to the detriment of the citizen.

How have we been able to reach a situation as disastrous as the one described in his book? Miriam González In a very natural way. In the Transition it was tried to leave everything relatively well closed so that it could not be reversed. That, which was great then, has become a drag. You have to change things and get them ready. If we continue another 20 years with the same rules, we will pass the rice, but the political class has to change them. No, it has to start with a social demand. In the last election campaign there were few requests to change the system, we continue to focus on specific issues and there is something much more important: to review the institutions. It is not that difficult, because many of the things to do in Spain already work in other countries. Is any institution saved? Many. It is not necessary to break everything, what I am talking about is a set-up with a constitutional revision that would have to start preparing already at a technical level, it is about adapting it at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Justice is one of the sectors that must be put in tune with more urgency. What can the average citizen do? Be much more demanding with the political class, because society surpasses the system. I am worried that Spain's enormous potential cannot be realized just because we have put on a corset that does not allow us to move in the right direction. Why does it cost so much for the parties to agree? Because they have too much power, hierarchized in structures pyramidal, with which personalities sprout more easily. And if you negotiate on that basis, you do not do it with the general interest of the country in your mind. Without government the economy suffers ... It works on a day-to-day basis because this is a very hardworking and serious society, which seeks opportunities. If they put the system bellows behind it, I don't know where we would get. Because the Spaniards do it with the system against. The future is scary It happens in all economic transition periods. Now there is a new threat of crisis. And in Spain we must add the paralysis. We must begin to adapt education to the flexibility of the market and it says that throughout the world the political class tends to lose power, except here in other countries, at the moment when a politician comes out of power, he loses it, and it is a situation natural. Politics is not forever. Does this situation affect women in any particular way? We are not recognized as much as we have contributed in recent years. Why do we manage to maintain the welfare state? Because of the debt and because the women launched themselves into the labor market, we have guaranteed the lifestyle and yet we have no social solutions that make it possible: nurseries, organized schedules ... The more uneasy the system is, the less we think of those innovative solutions. This is what plays against us. What model do we look at? We are a bit short of examples, but there are very brave people. As a convinced Europeanist, Macron seems great to me for his initiatives so that the European Union does not decline. Is the EU in danger? It worries me a lot. I believe that the effect of Brexit is underestimated: that the second economy of the Union, one of the two nuclear powers, the only one that has intelligence and military capabilities, be the only one that is making advances in artificial intelligence is going to be a blow tremendous for which we are not prepared. Minister Reyes Maroto has said that we are, but it is a true lie. If in 10 or 15 years we have maintained the Union project, we will have complied. Would the situation in Spain alleviate the emergence of a Liberal Party? More than a liberal party, what interests me is that there is a series of reforms of a liberal nature that would be liked by all moderate citizens, lean a little more to the right or to the left. Power return reforms.

Would things be otherwise with a woman at the head of the country? We have had women in the position of vice-presidents with a lot of power. He lived in the United Kingdom when Theresa May was prime minister and thought: `` What a shame, so long we have been slow to get there, and now things are not done well. '' Nothing indicates that a woman will govern differently than a man. Strongly agree. I can not be more against this fashion that women are more empathetic, better negotiators ..., some yes and others no. May created an anti-immigration climate that you would never associate with a woman. Each one must be judged by what he is and what he does, regardless of gender, which is what we all ask for. Attorney, founder of Inspiring Girls, author of a recipe book, now about politics ... Where does he take time? With difficulty. Everyone has to know himself and I react better and do more things the more I have to do. I like to be busy because that's when I can think of more ideas. How do you live in Silicon Valley? It's a very different kind of life. You are stuck with two or three fundamental things: technology is already to be applied, you don't have to wait until they invent anything; you have to think big, with ambition, and one of the greatest values ​​of American culture, value failure. It is said that it is a very macho society. I always say that it is the land of alpha male, because the founders of the Big companies are almost all men. One of the things that attracts me the most is that this dynamic of other professions, when women start well, we fall into the middle positions and in the high places there are very few, it also happens there, although it is a society of vanguard, totally new. The same pattern is reproduced. Where do you live better, in Spain, Great Britain or the US? Since I am deeply Spanish, this throws me away. In the end where you live better is where you have your people. What does our country look like from Silicon Valley? It is not seen. It is one of the greatest lessons of humility I have had in the nine months that I have lived there, and it is a situation that affects all of Europe. From the US they look at the world and come to China. We must wake up and see that there is a very important geopolitical change and we do not figure in it. What do you think of Trump? I can never agree with a person who speaks of women in terms of whether if you are a powerful man you can touch their genitals. It is also against the international legal order, of the EU, of the World Trade Organization, and of the values ​​of openness and fundamental freedoms and of international commitment that I defend. We cannot be at more opposite poles. Is it hurting the US a lot? More to the world than the US. There, unlike Spain, there is a system of controls that works. And what about Boris Johnson in the UK? Brexit and moving Britain out of the sphere of European influence will mean much more permanent damage than Trump's, because This is going to be a year or five at most. Brexit is permanent. The great drama in the United Kingdom is that young people want to stay and you cannot manage a country against the interests of young people. The population is very divided and one of the two generations will have to yield. "Since I had reason, there has been no more complicated political moment in the international arena," he says in his book. There is only one comparable in size, but it was positive: the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are seeing how little by little we drop the pillars of the international order: Europe; the World Trade Organization, which practically does not work, NATO ... We must save these principles for the new generations, and navigate this period to end without much loss. That is what Macron is doing. Do we have reason for the Spaniards to be proud of it? Miles, this country has given a lot of lessons coming from very complicated situations, and not only during the Transition. For example, in the last 12 years, with the crisis: there have been initiatives, solidarity, no one has given in to populism, nor has Europe been blamed, as others have done. If education does not work, parents complement it; if there is no work, young people start to serve coffees even having studied a career. The political class does not realize the people it has. How will our generation go down in history? I hope we will pass as fighters. I never thought we were going to live this historic moment, but I hope we will be considered as those who try to make our way. For me there has always been a before and after 2016, when suddenly I saw that there may be decisions taken by fundamental countries that are going in a completely opposite direction to common sense. What women do you admire? But especially to the day to day, the saleswoman who gets up, three hours ago in her house of domestic work, goes to work, returns, another three hours and then smiles.

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