The State of Emergency in Spain

David Lizoain

The stupidest parlour game in Spain consists of predicting how long our crisis will last, as if the country were predisposed to tolerate an unemployment rate above 20% for another decade. We are not witnessing an ordinary stagnation, in the vein of Japan’s lost decade, but rather a prolonged emergency. The terrible crisis on Europe’s [...]

PSOE steps into the 21st Century

carmen de paz

There is no doubt that PSOE is going through a critical period after recording its largest defeat in Spanish democratic history in the last general election. With only 28.7% of the vote and 110 members of parliament, the socialist party lost the support of around 4.5 million people who voted for PSOE in 2008. Over [...]