“The future is shiny” is a phrase hardly ever uttered by European enterprise leaders nowadays. However José Manuel Entrecanales, the chief govt of Acciona, is brimming with optimism for each Spanish enterprise and his household’s firm, which he has reworked from a development agency to 1 targeted on renewable-energy infrastructure. He displays a temper in Madrid that’s joyful and enthusiastic—in distinction to the nervousness in Berlin or Paris.