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Our commitment to the 2030 Agenda
In sustainable development Spain is 21st in the worldAs far away as it may seem, 2030 is just around the corner. Especially if the goal is to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDS) set by the United Nations (UN) to make our planet in a better...
Among the best digital public services in the EU
The European Union has just published the 2019 edition of its Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). It shows that Spain has improved in almost all the key performance indicators, highlighting the variable of digital public services, in which we went...
At the summit of world gastronomy
Spanish gastronomy has once again been recognised internationally as being amongst the best in the world. The prestigious ranking, The World's 50 Best Restaurants, which has just published its latest list, has selected seven Spanish restaurants as being...
A world reference in LGBTI rights
In the 1970’s in Spain who could have imagined, that in the following decades the country was going to move forward in leaps and bounds in terms of equality and LGBTI rights. From the first Gay Pride demonstration in Barcelona in 1977 to the celebration of...
Spain, 26th place in the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report
Spain has demonstrated once again that it has one of the highest quality democracies in the world. The 2019 edition of the Annual Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (also known as the V-Dem Institute), which forms part of the University of...
A full, consolidated democracy
Spain is a full, consolidated and modern democracy which gained this status in record time. Due to a tendency of being overly critical, we have forgotten to demonstrate what we have achieved, together as a nation. A country which forty years ago had to shake...
This Is The Real Spain is the blog of Global Spain to spread the word about the real Spain, with its strengths and challenges within and outside our borders. Readers can find these strengths divided up between our three main pillars: democracy, modernity and citizenship. Because Spain is a modern country in which its citizens are the basis for the spectacular progress made in recent decades. And the 40 years of Constitution which we recently celebrated provide us with the perfect lever to remember these successes. Find out more
