Inside Spain: Calmness and camaraderie to deal with a blackout

Inside Spain: Calmness and camaraderie to deal with a blackout

In this week’s Inside Spain we reflect on the solidarity displayed by Spaniards during the country’s biggest ever blackout, and we take a look at how Seville’s popular Santa Cruz neighbourhood is getting tough on overtourism.

Austerity measures by the energy companies are said to have been the cause of the slump on the Iberian Peninsula on Monday. The left-wing opposition in Spain and Portugal is now calling for nationalization of these companies.

This week, a huge power outage affected Spain and Portugal, as well as the southern parts of France, and many Hungarian tourists or expats may have felt its effects. The power outage was handled differently in different countries and parts of the country: in some places there was no panic at all, only minor disruptions in transport, while in others the blackout scared the population. On this occasion, we examined what the best tactics are in the…

Too many blackouts. The electric shock. The Madrid institutionalist. The prevaricator in Vox. The one from the renewing left. All in search of a reason for their existence. Each one of them looking for blame on someone else's shirt. Pedro Sánchez will not relent in his efforts to save his protégé Beatriz Corredor from the thunderous short circuit. Let no one take away from the president the inner illusion that the power went out because of a cyb…