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Spain's climate action strategy
Spain aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 (see trajectory in Figure 1). In 2023, Spain accounted for 8.2 % of the EU's net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and achieved a net emissions reduction of 39.3 % in the years 2005 to 2023, above the EU average reduction of 30.5 %. During the same period, the country reduced emissions covered by the EU emissions trading system (ETS) by 57.5 %. Spain's land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector has consistently performed as a carbon sink, ...
Plenary round-up – November I 2024
Ϸվ's first session of November 2024 opened with Members observing a minute of silence for the victims of the recent devastating floods in Spain. Members discussed the urgent need to support the victims, to improve preparedness and to continue to tackle the climate crisis. Ϸվ agreed a resolution calling for more targeted EU sanctions against Russia's 'shadow fleet', which by transporting oil ultimately finances Russia's war on Ukraine. Members heard and debated European Commission ...
Spain's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play
Spain's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) is the second largest (in absolute figures) financed by the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument and its main spending tool, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Following the October 2023 amendment of the Spanish NRRP, adding a REPowerEU chapter, the plan's value reached €163 billion (or 13.1 % of national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019), an increase of roughly 135 % compared with the original plan of 2021 (€69.5 billion ...
Digital public services in the National Recovery and Resilience Plans: Mid-term multilevel governance appraisal
This briefing analyses digital public services in the national recovery and resilience plans (NRRPs) from a multilevel governance perspective. It seeks to present the current state of affairs, examine how existing policy is working on the ground, and identify best practice and ideas for the future on the part of governmental organisations at all levels of the European system of multilevel governance. It presents an initial appraisal of available evidence and takes as its starting point digital public ...
The Spanish Ϸվ and EU affairs
The Spanish Constitution of 1978 established a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral system in the Cortes Generales (Spanish Ϸվ). The two chambers are the Congreso de los Diputados (Congress of Deputies) and the Senado (Senate). Both the Congress and the Senate represent the Spanish people, but the Senate is explicitly designated as the House of territorial representation. Article 137 of the Constitution formalises a quasi-federal system of self-governing ...
2023 European Week of Sport
The annual European Week of Sport (23-30 September) opens on 23 September in Valencia, Spain. This is the ninth edition of a European Commission initiative designed to promote sport and physical activity across Europe with the slogan #BeActive. The hope is that people will #BeActive during the Week of Sport, but also stay active throughout the rest of the year. The initiatives in 2023 centre on three topics: involvement, inclusion, and innovation. Sport has the potential to bring together people ...
Economic Dialogue with the President of the ECOFIN-Council - September 2023
Nadia Calvinho, First Vice President of the Government of Spain, Minister for Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation is participating in the ECON Committee in her capacity of President of the ECOFIN Council during the Spanish Presidency (July - December 2023). In accordance with the Treaty of the Union, “Member States shall regard their economic policies as a matter of common concern and shall coordinate them within the Council”. This document provides an overview of the Spanish Presidency priorities ...
José María Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado (1935-2023): President of the European Ϸվ, 1997-1999
José María Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado is so far the only Spaniard from the European People's Party (EPP) to serve as President of the European Ϸվ. He embodied a particular tradition within Spanish political life: Christian democracy. Son of the historical leader of the Spanish Right during the Second Spanish Republic, Gil-Robles lived with his family in exile in Portugal during the Spanish Civil War. He came back to Spain along with his monarchist father to oppose the dictatorship, and became ...
In depth analysis for the PEGA Committee Mission to Spain
This in depth-analysis contains background materials for PEGA Committee’s mission to Spain. The in depth-analysis has been prepared by the European Ϸվ’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PEGA Committee.
Briefing for a delegation of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality to Madrid, Spain - 20 - 22 February 2023
This Briefing, written by the European Ϸվ’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Delegation to Madrid scheduled from 20 to 22 February 2023. It includes information about Spain's executive and legislative power, justice system and the territorial organisation of the State, its gender equality policies, in particular in relation to the cases on sexual consent law, the fight against ...