Spain’s next government faces major economic challenges and to overcome them it needs to regain the reformist momentum that used to characterise the country before political uncertainty set in.
The decision of the British people to leave the EU has consequences not only for the UK but also for the remaining 27 EU member states, and more particularly for Spain.
Spain’s Defence cannot avoid the structural trends and changes in the geopolitical context. The Elcano Royal Institute believes that Spain should reconsider the structural elements of its current Defence model and proposes the following criteria for Defence restructuring in Spain.
The lingering effects of the eurozone crisis have weakened the European project as a whole. As a result, stronger and more effective cooperation between enthusiastic EU countries such as Poland and Spain is very much needed.
The European parliamentary elections in May 2019 represent a major opportunity for Spain to increase its influence in the EU.
Weakened by repeated arrests of leaders and operatives and minimal support for its cause, ETA became a spent force long before it disbanded.
The Socialists won Spain’s third general election in less than four years, but without a governing majority.
This paper briefly analyses the attempted coup d’état carried out in Spain in February 1981 and the trial that was held in its aftermath, with a view to extracting possible lessons that might prove useful to those currently engaged in post-coup justice in Turkey.
Spain’s merchandise exports, which have played a significant role in the economy’s recovery, set a new record in 2018 of €285 billion.
The UK’s exit from the EU has become a political maze. Uncertainties increase and so do the negative economic effects, especially on Britain’s European borders: Northern Ireland and the Campo de Gibraltar in Spain.
We will never know whether Spain would have functioned without the euro. What we do know is that Spain has fared better than other countries.