The Spanish are too grumpy about their politics
Things are actually going quite well
MOST PEOPLE see their own countries in a better light than foreigners do. Not so Spaniards: in a study in 2021 for the Elcano Real Institute, a think-tank in Madrid, Spanish respondents were among those of just five countries (out of a total of 24) to have a lower opinion of their country than those outside it do.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Unreasonably blue”
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