How Powerful Is France? http://testu.be/1DQBXKM Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Spain once had a similar economic future to Greece, yet unprecedented growth put the nation back on track....
========== In 2011, Spain, along with Portugal, Ireland
and Greece were popularly given the acronym “PIGS." Their economic situation was so
bad that they were expected to consume mass bailouts from the European Union. But in the
past 4 years, Spain has seen a lightening fast recovery, and the highest economic growth
in the EU as of 2015. So what is it about Spain that helped them turn things around?
Just how powerful is Spain? Well, Spain is a relatively large country
by European standards, coming in at roughly 200,000 square miles, or three quarters the
size of Texas. This makes them the second largest country in the EU, after France. But,
Spain is only the 5th most populous with a bit more than 45 million residents. Despite
it’s smaller size, Spain’s histo...