Overview
- Presenting its 2025 report, Orkestra calls for moving beyond traditional commercial openness to a strategy focused on resilience and local anchoring.
- The recommendations press Basque companies to pursue new business in Asia and Latin America to avoid erosion of competitiveness.
- Orkestra advises establishing subsidiaries in countries leading major technological, energy and digital transitions to tap growth and capabilities.
- The report urges attracting foreign capital under conditions that strengthen local roots, alongside targeted recruitment of qualified international talent with roles matched to their training.
- Bizkaia deputy general Elixabete Etxanobe and Basque industry minister Mikel Jauregi attended the presentation, as the proposals enter the regional policy conversation without immediate binding measures.