This is the Guardian.
Today, has immigration turbocharged Spain's economy?
I first arrived in Madrid in 2011, and so it was really at the tail end of the economic crisis here.
Asifa Qassam is the Guardian's European Community affairs correspondent.
And she moved to Spain at a very different time.
Madrid in particular was really reeling from that economic crisis.
So lots of shops were boarded up, restaurants were kind of half empty.
On a good night, people, all they talked about was la crises, la crises.
They couldn't see a way out.
There was just no light at the end of that tunnel.
Fourteen years on, her adopted home country is a place transformed.
And now in 20, it feels like a very different place.
There's all these young people that have used the opportunity of the crisis or the kind of the lack of jobs in the crisis to start interesting businesses and to kind of launch themselves into innovation.
There are, you know, these cafes that are popping up everywhere that charge incredibly high amounts for coffee and that are always packed.
There's lineups outside restaurants.
There's just a buzz to the city that wasn't there before.
Spain has become Europe's fastest growing economy.
Last year, the Economist named it the world's best.
And one reason for this is immigration.
Spain's socialist prime minister wants immigration.