Senior executives from 75 multinational companies and 25 countries attended the second edition of the Invest in Spain Summit on the last Monday of April, where they met with the Government’s economic and innovation team to learn about the investment opportunities our country offers. The meeting, which was held at Madrid’s Royal Theatre (Teatro Real de Madrid), focused on the strategic sectors linked to the green and digital transition, which are vital to the growth of the European economy in the years ahead.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presented Spain as “a genuine safe haven” for international investors, thanks to its combination of “balanced growth and economic dynamism, resilience in the face of crises, and increasingly strong public finances”. These factors, he said, offer “stability and profitability” and make our country “a safe and growing investment”.

Reasons to invest in Spain
Sánchez told attendees that Spain is the only one of Europe’s five major economies that is able to combine “record growth, labour market dynamism, a green agenda, world-class infrastructure, top-tier public services and an unwavering commitment to openness and talent”. Among his reasons for investing in Spain, he highlighted its ability to continue creating wealth and jobs, boosting per capita income and delivering social progress in a “highly volatile and uncertain” context; its readiness to face “the worst energy crisis in history”, thanks to its seven regasification plants and eight refineries; and a fiscal policy that he described as “responsible”.

Carlos Cuerpo,  First Vice-President and Minister for Economy, Trade and Business,  also took part in the meeting and championed Spain’s capacity to tackle “the challenges of our generation”: We are among the countries with largest access to renewable energy and capacity  in Europe, having one of the biggest fibre-optic networks in the OECD, airports along the Atlantic–Mediterranean corridor and intangible assets: building bridges between continents, quality of life and security, a robust rule of law, and the ability to be champions in many sectors such as renewables, trade and banking.”

A place to grow and prosper
At the closing ceremony of the second Invest in Spain Summit, which was held at the nearby Royal Collections Gallery, King Felipe VI recalled how “for more than a century international companies have found in Spain a place to grow and prosper. Over time, Spain too has undergone a profound transformation. Today, our strength lies in our ability to create value through quality, innovation, and our capacity to transform and create long-term opportunities”.​

The aim of the Invest in Spain Summit is to strengthen direct dialogue between leading international investors and the Spanish government, in addition to exchanging proposals and analysing the needs of companies that are backing the Spanish market. The aim is to thereby facilitate the launch of new investment projects and to cement Spain’s position as one of the leading destinations for foreign direct investment.

180 bilateral meetings
During the event, around 180 bilateral meetings were held between international investors and the highest-level institutional representatives, including the Prime Minister himself, the First Vice-President and Minister Carlos Cuerpo, the Minister for Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, and the Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, Óscar López.

In its first edition, which was held in 2025, this forum helped drive investments worth more than €4.4 billion, which are attributed to the creation of more than 4,500 jobs.

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