The recent crisis has been a litmus test of Spain’s Europeanism. There has been neither a surge of Euroscepticism nor of anti-immigration sentiment, although the so-called ‘naïf Europeanism’ which used to exist in the country is no longer there either.
The high-level forum in Beijing in May will be an opportunity to address the weaknesses of "One Belt, One Road".
The 2017 Elcano Global Presence Index of the Elcano Royal Instituteranks Spain 12th out of 100 countries with a score of 204.1.
Spain's growth in 2017 will be the highest among the main developed countries, but this is of little comfort for the unemployed
The strategic awakening of Japan, a power with maritime inclinations and a geostrategic position relative to Asia similar to Spain’s relative to Europe, provides Spain with a series of opportunities.
Spain has good reasons for wanting the best possible relationship between Britain and the EU as a result of Brexit, but it cannot allow the UK to be better off outside the EU than inside it.
Spain’s exports of goods rose in 2016 for the seventh year running, defying expectations and domestic consumption picks up.
Very few European countries have proven immune to the appeal of right-wing populism. Despite economic crisis and fast-eroding political trust, there is a remarkable absence of an electorally successful Spanish right-wing populist party.
Spain and Israel –both OECD member countries– have been developing over the past three decades in totally different directions. Could it be that the two countries are ignoring each other and missing out on potential complementarities?
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