In Spain, people’s finances were already stretched before the Ukraine invasion, now fuel and energy prices have become a national talking point

«Toni Roldán, director of the EsadeEcPol Center for Economic Policy, points out that inflationary pressure in Spain was already high before the invasion: ‘Before the war we we were already seeing quite significant increases in price levels in Spain. They were rising mostly because of two different reasons: the problems in the supply chain, and also energy prices.'»