Comments on: Spanish Government’s Overwhelming Optimism…

By: James Baker

James Baker — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 13:32:34 +0000

An odd poster but surely the right idea – Spain needs a dash of entrepreneurial spirit right now, but rather than just Soviet-style exhortation some practical help like a suspension of social security contributions for start-ups would be good. I am more optimistic than I was about Spanish business in 2010:

http://spanishinsight.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-does-2010-hold-for-spanish.html

By: Ben Curtis

Ben Curtis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:27:48 +0000

Hola Cari, bienvenido a NFS, y gracias por tu primer comentario

By: Cari

Cari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:55:26 +0000

Buenos días a todos.

Soy una chica española (de Murcia, una región al sureste de España). He encontrado este blog navegando por Internet, y me parece muy interesante, sobre todo porque puedo ver la perspectiva que se tiene de mi pais desde fuera de nuestras fronteras.

Hablo y escribo inglés bastante bien, pero quizás os atraiga la idea de que alguien escriba en español en este blog. Igualmente, puedo corregir alguna traducción que sea errónea, o pueda dar lugar a interpretaciones incorrectas.

Respecto al anuncio, efectivamente estamos pasando una crisis muy importante que está afectando negativamente a todos los sectores. Mientras en otros paises la recesión ha acabado, en España seguimos en recesión. En Murcia no hay este tipo de anuncios (sólo en Madrid, al tratarse de una campaña publicitaria local). El problema es que, aunque hagan campañas y anuncios que quedan muy bonitos, la realidad es que no hay ayudas para crear empresas, y los bancos han “cerrado el grifo” del dinero, por lo que al pequeño empresario le es muy difícil soportar la presión.

Espero seguir comentando este blog.

Saludos cordiales.

By: BoutiqueSpain

BoutiqueSpain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:11:18 +0000

Maybe the lightening symbolises all the red tape and administration you have to go through in order to set up a business in Spain?

By: SpanishFootsteps

SpanishFootsteps — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:09:54 +0000

From my experience with setting up a business in Spain, the country will probably be exiting the recession before you actually get all the paper work completed. But hey at least you’d be keep busy……

By: Ben Curtis

Ben Curtis — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:55:12 +0000

@Brian –

@Dan – Yes, it’s amazing the 30-60 day rule hasn’t gone through, I think that has resulted in the collapse of endless entrepreneurial ventures.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:33:25 +0000

This campaign (“The objective is to encourage people to see entrepreneurialism “as a form of confronting the current situation and becoming owners of their own fate”), suffers from the usual Spanish problem, which is politicans spending other people’s money on giant ads or buildings or graphic designs and thinking that’s the problem fixed.

There’s a reason why the Spanish don’t work for themselves. I’ve tried it and it turned out to an exercise in futility with what seems like every level of government having you in their sights, big companies pulling your leg (to put it mildly), and as a reward for “confronting the current situation” the ex-self employed don’t get any benefits. At all.

One of the first things the government could have done a couple of years ago which could have saved jobs and companies is enforce payment from the government to suppliers and between businesses within 30-60 days. It still hasn’t got through the senate…

By: BrianA

BrianA — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:59:29 +0000

Looking on the bright side. There is no shortage of suitable business premises right now.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:49 +0000

Mmmmm!!! Probably not the best time in the World to start the campaign. Saying that the sentiment is right. Spain needs to get its collective ass into gear as regards working for oneself rather than wanting to be a civil servant.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:12:39 +0000

@ Erik R. “bitter much?” – a pint will do fine to start.