Zapatero has received offers to join boards of directors and has said no

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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero leads a completely quiet life. Away from day-to-day life, the former President of the Government closely follows parliamentary activity, the decisions made by Mariano Rajoy and the PSOE primaries. Zapatero often speaks with those around him about how he is now, two years after his departure from La Moncloa, and about current political events. The former president privately acknowledges feeling happy in this new stage in which he dedicates most of his time to his wife and his daughters. At this time, as one of his best friends explains to El Confidencial Digital , Zapatero admits that he has already received several offers to join the board of directors of a large company. He has responded the same to all the proposals: he has rejected them . Rodríguez Zapatero confesses to his intimates that he wants to be an exemplary former president of the Government and that, therefore, it is not clear to him to join a multinational as a director. Regarding the situation in the country, Zapatero has admitted that he understands the decisions that the current president, Mariano Rajoy, has had to make . These are measures that he would also have had to adopt in his place. Zapatero, who does not usually comment publicly on the situation of his party, has acknowledged that he will not get involved in any candidate in the PSOE primaries .

He prefers to stay away, at least publicly. The former President of the Government also admits to those close to him that he receives dozens of requests to give conferences around the world . If he wanted, he could give one every week, but he prefers  Phone Number List to choose his own interventions. At the moment, his horizon is to combine this work as a lecturer with his position in the Council of State .The European Anti-Fraud Office has opened a file against Gibraltar for the “significant increase” in cigarette smuggling in southern Spain. He has requested information about the case from the Rock's authorities. The opening of the investigation surprised Fabian Picardo during a trip to Brussels. As El Confidencial Digital has learned, the investigation has been silently underway for several months. But until now it has been carried out with the utmost discretion. The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, who is visiting Brussels this Wednesday, has already been informed of the opening of this file . Meeting with the Anti-Fraud Office In fact, he has already met, taking advantage of his stay in the European capital, with representatives of the Anti-Fraud Office to provide all the data requested by the technicians of this department.



Specifically, they want to obtain additional information regarding the functioning of the cigarette market in Gibraltar, in particular regarding the balance between supply and legitimate demand. Warning four months ago The mission of EU inspectors, which traveled to the Rock on September 25, concluded that Spain had not violated community rules by increasing border controls after the conflict with the Gibraltarian authorities over the throwing of concrete blocks into the bay. from Algeciras. But the European Commission envoys have already recommended that Spain and the United Kingdom increase cooperation in the fight against smuggling. For its part, the Anti-Fraud Office has told ECD that it has not opened any file with the Gibraltar authorities, but is instead "investigating the significant increase in tobacco smuggling in the south of Spain." However, he did not want to give more details on this matter.