Bosch says it will continue to bet on Barcelona and Catalonia for its international expansion The president assures that they have not noticed "significant alterations" in his business despite the Catalan uncertainty   MADRID, 24 (EUROPA PRESS)   The president of the Bosch Group for Spain and Portugal, Javier González Pareja, has ensured that Barcelona is a city in which the company believes and, therefore, will continue to expand in the coming years through Spain and Europe from Barcelona.   González, in a statement to Europa Press, stressed that Spain is a country where Bosch produces and develops and, sample of it, has cited the acquisition that the company made of the ITK company in 2016, dedicated to the development of software based in Barcelona .   In this regard, he said that Bosch has a software development center in Barcelona "from where we are expanding to the rest of Spain and Europe".   For this reason, he has assured that they will work "from Barcelona for the whole world", betting on this city despite the fact that thousands of companies left the community of Catalonia in the face of the political instability of recent months.   In this regard, González has indicated that both for Bosch and for the rest of the companies both in Spain and abroad, political and economic stability is "basic and essential" to be able to plan in the long term.   The head of the company in Spain and Portugal recalled that Bosch has more than 20 locations in Spain and of them, five are in Catalonia, employing more than 800 people.   Despite the instability experienced in Catalonia in recent months, Gonzalez has said that "we have not noticed significant changes in our business", but reiterated once again that "always any company needs long-term economic and political stability."   Finally, the president has assessed that Bosch has been in Spain for 110 years and has remembered that the company founded its first location in the city of Barcelona. "For what we will continue betting on this city and this community," he concluded.