Miriam González launches a platform to promote the "ambition" of a 'Better Spain'

Miriam González Durántez, a European and international trade lawyer and founder of the Inspiring Girls movement, launched her España Mejor platform this Thursday in Madrid, which seeks to serve as a kind of transmission belt for ideas that serve to “improve public policies through simple ideas , innovative and pragmatic”.

“España Mejor is a channel for participation, a way to contribute to increasing the country's ambition,” González assured at the presentation, which took place at the Espacio Bertelsmann. There he has called to “put aside polarization and political noise” and do it in a “pragmatic way, without ideological charge.”

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González's husband, the British Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom during David Cameron's tenure and former leader of the Liberal Democrat Party, has attended the event.. He currently serves as president of global affairs at Meta, the former Facebook, and is considered Mark Zuckerberg's right-hand man.

The platform was born with the launch of its first project: Imagine. It seeks to collect all those ideas that make a country better, but with the focus on a specific sector of the population, young people.. Those young people plagued by unemployment, job insecurity, insecurity in future projects, the difficulty to emancipate themselves and a long etcetera that will sound familiar to anyone between 18 and 35 years of age.

To present this first project, González has been accompanied by the former European deputy Beatriz Becerra and by Álvaro Justribó and Adrián Ballester, creators of Mazinn, the first Spanish consultancy specialized in the so-called generation Z.

“All of us who are young people see the enormous difficulties that Spanish citizens have in these aspects,” said Becerra.. “We are talking about a sum of generations that has three recessions behind it and that has great difficulties in seeing a future and that is treated with a paternalism that is not accompanied by any results,” he added.

Mazinn has carried out a study and 80% of young people have said yes, that if they had a channel to participate in public policies they would do so. So the best modus operandi in Spain from now on is to carry out a macro-survey to ask young people what they want to have in public policies and, from there, work on concrete proposals. Everything, the promoters assure, in a transversal way and without ideologies.

All these projects, as González has assured, will be developed through five main areas: how to grow and increase productivity, how to obtain quality and competitive education, how to use natural resources without depleting them, how to use the benefits of technology for governance and how to modernize our public system.

And why has he gotten into this odyssey? “Because I am tired of complaining, of having to accept that a country like ours has the capacity for work and the talent to be among the greats and that it is not.”. Work is done well and a lot, but we are not increasing per capita income and the problems that should be circumstantial are not,” González replies.