Spanish foreign minister Josep Borrell's team is full of gems. One of them is Irene Lozana, writer, journalist and former Congress deputy for UPyD, the centrist, centralist party that was led by Rosa Díez. Well, Lozano is now secretary of state of the body called España Global ("Global Spain"), which has replaced the fiasco that was Marca España ("Brand Spain"), Mariano Rajoy's flagship project which was headed by the businessperson Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros. Under the umbrella of España Global falls the management of Spain's brand and image abroad, badly affected by the crisis with Catalonia, the police violence of 1st October, the extraordinary imprisonment of the social leaders Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez, the suspension of the Catalan government and the later bifurcation towards exile and prison of its members.
Spain hasn't recovered from all of that and, of course, it's lost the fight to explain it abroad. First with Margallo at the head of the foreign ministry, then with Dastis and now with Borrell. It's certain that Borrell is the one who's putting the most passion into this defeat, likely because although he's as pro-independence as any of the former ministers or his cabinet colleagues, he's less diplomatic and a twister of the truth of importance and many years' standing. Hasn't he said that the police violence during the referendum is a great fake news story?
Lozano has told us this Sunday that the Spanish government is thinking of carrying out a campaign against the independence supporters abroad, accusing them of disinformation around the referendum trial to be held in the Supreme Court and that España Global will have a budget allocation to this effect. "To defend ourselves there needs to be money and there will be from the government". What's certain is that neither Margallo's pressure on his European partners, nor Dastis's lies to the international press have managed to overturn the views of a very significant portion of worldwide public opinion. Nor will Borrell and Lozano manage it with their money and the Spanish state has to bear the responsibility that the trial is also over the quality of Spanish democracy.
By the way, would this money not be from the budget that PSOE is trying with such exertion to pass with the support of the pro-independence parties? Borrell is easily capable of that.