Cuts to VAT on essential food products in Portugal have spurred many Spaniards in Galicia, Castilla y León and Extremadura to drive across the border to do their supermarket shopping.
Eurostat data reveals that Spain is the major EU economy where people are having to deal with the biggest rise in prices, from electricity and fuel, to food and travel costs.
With everything from food to electricity becoming more expensive, people in Spain will spend on average €1,100 more on daily costs in 2022 than the previous year. Here are some top tips for tightening your belt as inflation bites.
Inflation in Spain in July reached 10.8 percent, its highest level in 38 years, fuelled by runaway food and energy prices, official data showed on Friday.
Spanish inflation has surged to a near 37-year high due to sky-high energy prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, official data showed Wednesday, adding pressure to the government.
Spanish inflation accelerated in November to its highest level in nearly three decades on the back of rising food and gas prices, official data showed Monday.
Consumer prices in Spain dropped by 1.5 percent year-on-year in January, official data showed on Friday, their seventh straight month in negative territory, after falling 1.1 percent in December.
Consumer prices in Spain declined in November for the fifth month running, official data confirmed on Friday, fuelling growing concerns over slowing inflation in the eurozone.
Spain reported on Tuesday the steepest slide in consumer prices in nearly five years, a potentially worrying development as the eurozone combats the threat of a deflationary spiral which could kill of Spain's recovery.
Spain's inflation rate fell to zero in June, official data showed on Friday, as the eurozone battled to fend off the threat of a damaging deflationary spiral.
Spain reported Friday a zero-percent annual inflation rate in June, even as the European Central Bank fights off a deflationary threat hanging over the region.
Spain on Friday reported a feeble increase in consumer prices in May as the eurozone struggled with the spectre of an economically damaging deflationary spiral.
Spanish consumer prices edged only slightly higher in December, official data showed on Wednesday, as the spectre of deflation hovered over the eurozone.
Spanish inflation slowed to zero in October, official data showed, in line with falling rates around Europe which have raised the risk of deflation that could threaten economic recovery.
Spanish inflation eased to 2.6 percent in March on a 12-month basis from 2.9 percent in February, mainly owing to lower prices for motor fuels, figures published on Friday by the national statistics institute INE showed.
