{"id":578829,"date":"2025-11-18T18:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578829\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:55:17","slug":"spain-is-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578829\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain is booming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish economy <strong>is expected to grow 2.9% this year, at more than double the average pace in the European Union<\/strong> and exceeding the previous forecasts of 2.6-2.7%, the European Commission and the Spanish government said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s executive arm said gross domestic product in the 20 countries that share the euro currency would grow 1.3% this year, rather than 0.9% as forecast last April, while the whole bloc&#8217;s GDP would expand 1.4%. It raised its estimate for Spain from 2.6%, citing strong domestic demand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government <strong>will raise its forecast to 2.9%<\/strong>, in line with the European Commission,&#8221; Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo told a parliamentary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>government had in September upgraded the growth forecast to 2.7% from 2.6%<\/strong>, predicting a positive outlook until 2028. The EU estimates Spain&#8217;s economy will grow 2.3% in 2026, but Cuerpo said the government would stick to a 2.2% forecast.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the government would present a new indicator within its economic targets that would link macro- and microeconomic data to measure how Spain reduces inequality and poverty levels, making sure that &#8220;growth figures translate into the daily lives of households&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spanish economy is expected to grow 2.9% this year, at more than double the average pace in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,2843,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115572226495983790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}