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THAT’S REALLY A BIG TASK. IN YOUR OTHER LIFE
YOU’RE AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE FIELD OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS. HOW DO THE TWO LIVES
FIT TOGETHER?
In 1983 I started Telesat, the first parabolic antennas company in
Spain. And I started one of the first mobile phone companies in
Spain and France. I am also in the real estate business. And I am
in politics as well, building the first Pan-European political party
called Omnia Europa. I am running nine small companies since
I know how to reach the balance between profit and use of my
time. They only give me enough money not to starve and to have
a roof.
I do not want to own cars, boats, planes, big castles. All I need
is time to experience life. I have been doing that for 40 years.
I work eight months and I go on the sea for four months. Well,
sometimes I can only go to the sea for one month. This time I am
taking three years or even more because of the pandemic. I am
still old European school which means to produce only what we
really need. In a family you use the clothes of your older brother.
You do not buy 10 pairs of shoes per year. I use my father’s
shoes and they are the best ones. This kind of mentality is logical
because it is the mentality that nature and our planet can handle.
YOU SAY THIS WAS THE EUROPEAN MENTALITY?
We need to believe in our European culture and to recover it,
because it is key for the world. We are an example for the world.
Europe is the origin of the Christian civilization. To recover this
mentality is very, very important. I try to exploit it and to communicate
it at all times. There is a new way of thinking. One of my
companies gives a good example of what I am talking about.
It buys used mobile phones in Europe, gets them repaired to
reuse them in the Global South. In the long-term it is much more
profitable. In the past we built things to last for a very long time.
We built amazing cars. German cars in the 1970s lasted all your
life. But now, they stop doing that. We need to recover this.
Nature recycles everything. Nature does not waste anything. If
we restore our mentality we will avoid plastic in the ocean, the
corals will return and there will be enough fish for all of us. We
will be more sustainable.
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