President of the Government Pedro Sánchez (l) receives Alberto Núñez Feijóo (r), president of the Popular Party, at Moncloa Palace. | Eduardo Parra / Europa Press / ContactoPhoto
Even as Germany flirts with stagnation, Spain has established itself as the unexpected engine of the European Union. But that macroeconomic success conceals a dangerous point of friction: the inability of Spain’s political system to manage growth. Marc López Plana, editor and director of 'Agenda Pública', warns in this week’s 'Brújula Europea' that the lack of structural consensus between the PSOE and PP on housing, immigration, regional financing, and infrastructure is not only a problem of management, but a fertile breeding ground for populism.