With an area of 505,992 km2 (195,365 sq mi), Spain is the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union, and the fifth largest country in Europe. Spain became an influential global empire in the early modern period, being one of the first countries to colonize the New World and leaving a legacy of over 500 million Spanish speakers today, making it the world's second most spoken first language. Spain is a democracy organized in the form of a parliamentary government under a constitutional monarchy. It is a developed country with the 13th largest economy in the world. As of 2014, Spain ranks 24th-highest on the worldwide quality of life index rating.[8] It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, OECD, and WTO.

Why Business in Spain?

• It is located in a privileged geostrategic position: Spain is the gateway to the Mediterranean, North Africa and Latin America and has access to 1,300 million consumers.
• It has a vast local market with the spending power of 47 million inhabitants.
• It has a modern, high-quality network of infrastructures, for which innovation is the common denominator.
• It has excellent networks for transport, energy and telecommunications.
Its labor market offers young, highly qualified manpower.
• Its labor market combines young and highly qualified manpower.
• Offering highly competitive costs for labor, public services and rental of services and telecommunications.
• It provides some of the most attractive fiscal incentives for R&D+i of the countries within the OECD, with a view to promoting investments from large corporations as well as from small and medium-sized companies.
• It provides great business opportunities in some of the world's fastest expanding sectors: ICT, automotive, aeronautic, environment and biotechnology.