Spaniards SEEM to be doing well these days, especially compared with some of their neighbours. Since 2022 growth in their economy has far outpaced that of the euro area as a whole. Unemployment, though still over 10%, is at its lowest since 2008. And this is despite a sharp rise in the minimum wage since Pedro Sánchez, a Socialist, became prime minister in 2018. Mr Sánchez has passed a useful labour reform, strengthened the welfare state, welcomed immigrants and taken the European lead in recognising a Palestinian state. His supporters see him as a last bastion of social democracy against the hard right. Despite leading a minority government, Mr Sánchez has kept the country ticking over pretty well.
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