The European Commission yesterday pointed to the Spanish Government as one of the two in the European Union (along with Belgium) that has not sent a budgetary plan to Brussels (in fact, Spain has been without a Budget since 2023, from the previous legislature) and warned of a “critical situation” with 25.8% of the population at risk of poverty. At the same time, it warns Spain that it runs the…

Fernando González Urbaneja | “Spain is doing well” was the slogan that President Aznar used to characterize his eight-year term (1996-2004), spanning the turn of the century. The data supported his claim. Pedro Sánchez now resurrects Aznar’s proposition and insists in all his speeches that Spanish society is better off today than when he took office in mid-2018. Some data supports his thesis, while others contradict it. The Spanish economy…