{"id":123051,"date":"2025-02-18T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/blog\/the-new-face-of-stagnation-digitized-bureaucracy-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:25:05","slug":"the-new-face-of-stagnation-digitized-bureaucracy-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/blog\/the-new-face-of-stagnation-digitized-bureaucracy-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The new face of immobilism: digitalised bureaucracy in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>By Antonio Tejeda Encinas<\/p>\n<p>From Larra&#8217;s celebrated \u2018Come back tomorrow\u2019 to the routine \u2018wait for the report\u2019, Spanish bureaucracy has changed its form, but not its logic. Today, you do not have to come back tomorrow: you just have to wait online. We have made the waiting more agile, but not the decision. We have digitalised it so that the blockage is faster and more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is not technical but structural. The administration has not transformed itself: it has armoured itself. Where there were once papers and service counters, today there are screens, passwords, forms and automated silence. The fear of deciding \u2013 whether criminal, political or media-driven \u2013 has replaced the will to resolve. And bureaucracy, far from disappearing, has become more sophisticated in order to justify inaction.<\/p>\n<p>Spain does not need more digital tools, but more institutional freedom to decide effectively. Because digitalising without purpose is merely a way of disguising paralysis. More technology does not mean more modernity if fear, suspicion and the culture of the case file persist. That is not transformation: it is a simulation of efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Only if we change the underlying logic \u2013 the one that prefers processes to results, formal guarantees to real solutions \u2013 will we be able to build a truly useful administration. Otherwise, we will remain trapped in this technological loop that does not resolve, only defers. And in the end, the message will be the same: \u2018come back tomorrow\u2019, but with an electronic signature<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Antonio Tejeda Encinas From Larra&#8217;s celebrated \u2018Come back tomorrow\u2019 to the routine \u2018wait for the report\u2019, Spanish bureaucracy has changed its form, but not its logic. Today, you do not have to come back tomorrow: you just have to wait online. We have made the waiting more agile, but not the decision. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_cea_women":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1104],"tags":[],"cea_women":[],"class_list":["post-123051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123922,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123051\/revisions\/123922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123051"},{"taxonomy":"cea_women","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cea_women?post=123051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}