• Sun. Feb 21st, 2021

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The world, and with it the system of international relations, has radically changed in recent years. The reference date for historians is 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the new axis, globalization, a factor that, combined with the emergence of information technologies and the displacement of the geostrategic importance of the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, has forced most countries to review their foreign policy.

In the case of Spain, these events overlap with a process of profound internal transformations. The new Constitution, the construction of the decentralized State, integration into the European Union, the longest and most sustained period of economic growth in our history, followed by the conversion into a host country for large migratory flows and the southern border of the European Union

The abrupt interruption of the crisis, the longest in our recent history, from which we are only now beginning to emerge, or the impact of terrorism, first internal, and now jihadist, are forcing public powers to rewrite foreign policy. The distinction between previously exclusively domestic issues and foreign policy is rapidly blurring.

International Relations

Belonging to the European Union, a consequence of our European vocation, has been the determining axis of Spanish foreign policy since the transition, an axis that has been reinforced in the last legislature with a markedly Europeanist government that has included the European Union in the nomenclature of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

Of great importance in the last two years is Spanish participation in the negotiation of the conditions for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, due to the close political and economic relations between the two countries and the consequences it will have for the European U...

2021-24 Foreign Action Strategy

The Council of Ministers today agreed to send the Foreign Action Strategy 2021-2024 to the Parliament, which sets out the priorities and objectives of Spain's Foreign Action for the next four years. Prepared after extensive consultation, it identifies the major global trends that are accelerated with the arrival of Covid: greater global interdependence in an increasingly fractured world, speed of change, and increased uncertainty.

The Strategy identifies four major fractures to which Spain wants to respond: the socioeconomic one, with an increase in inequalities, and without a clear economic paradigm; the ecological, climatic, demographic and biodiversity; technology, with large developme...