The process will be available to foreign nationals without a criminal record who can prove they lived in Spain for five months prior to 31 December 2025.
We are inevitably going to have a very right wing government here in Spain — Sanchez is running on fumes and the left is in disarray — but Sanchez has been pretty decent on immigration. His line is that the demographic crisis in Spain makes mass immigration economically essential, full stop, which isn’t a perfect take ofc, but it’s nice to see a socdem not falling into the trap of triangulating on this issue.
Tbh Spain is in a very weird place right now. You see examples of increased racial tolerance and integration everywhere on the one hand, but on the other it seems like every middle class person you speak to these days is unafraid to chew your ear off about how much of a fascist they are.
The electoral left has completely fragmented (party funding rules tend to guarantee this) but then the Palestine solidarity protests were quite impressive, especially considering that the government’s line was at the less-bad end of the NATO spectrum. Communist movements seem quite active at the street level — and the memberships seem to be pretty young, which is an encouraging sign imo
In conclusion, Spain is a land of contrasts yada yada
We are inevitably going to have a very right wing government here in Spain — Sanchez is running on fumes and the left is in disarray — but Sanchez has been pretty decent on immigration. His line is that the demographic crisis in Spain makes mass immigration economically essential, full stop, which isn’t a perfect take ofc, but it’s nice to see a socdem not falling into the trap of triangulating on this issue.
Tbh Spain is in a very weird place right now. You see examples of increased racial tolerance and integration everywhere on the one hand, but on the other it seems like every middle class person you speak to these days is unafraid to chew your ear off about how much of a fascist they are.
The electoral left has completely fragmented (party funding rules tend to guarantee this) but then the Palestine solidarity protests were quite impressive, especially considering that the government’s line was at the less-bad end of the NATO spectrum. Communist movements seem quite active at the street level — and the memberships seem to be pretty young, which is an encouraging sign imo
In conclusion, Spain is a land of contrasts yada yada
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