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If Spaniards are proud of and united around something, this is EU membership.
In Spain, national and European identities are so deeply embedded that they resemble the two sides of the same coin: you cannot think of one without the other. Gaining EU membership always meant leaving behind a traumatic century, besieged by the Civil War and the subsequent international isolation suffered under General Franco’s regime. So, the new democracy, born out of the 1978 Constitution, set itself the EU accession goal as the key element which would guarantee its stability and prosperity.
