00:00Integration with Europe gave Spain not only the opportunity to sell more,
00:03it also brought large-scale investments into the country's economy.
00:07From 1986 to 2024, Spain received a net amount of 268 billion euros from the EU budget.
00:18A significant part of these funds was directed towards modernizing infrastructure.
00:22With the support of European funding, Spain developed an extensive network of high-speed
00:26railways and highways, modernized its energy networks, and about 7 million households
00:32gained access to high-speed internet.
00:35European support also extended directly to producers.
00:39More than half a million Spanish farmers regularly receive funding under the EU's
00:44Common Agricultural Policy.
00:46Spanish scientists, in turn, attracted about 17 billion euros in grant funding under the
00:52Horizon Europe program.
