For the past four years, Richard Hogenkamp has been a correspondent in Spain for several media outlets: the Dutch television channel RTL4 and the financial newspapers *Het Financieele Dagblad* (Netherlands) and *De Tijd* (Belgium). He worked for 15 years as editor-in-chief of RTL4’s daily news programme in the Netherlands, until he decided to return to work as a correspondent, choosing Spain because, in his view, it is the EU country where many interesting developments – such as migration, climate change, economic development and an ageing population – are taking place simultaneously.