For many years, the foreign service has condemned the lack of financing of the Spanish consular network, but the diplomats are now afraid not to supply, between an increase in the number of Spaniards abroad – 900,000 at the beginning of the century, more than three million today – and expected fragrant applications for the application of the Law of Democratic memory, which will allow access to reduced signs of Republicanovis.
The offices require both staff and simple physical space. But since the distribution in general budgets does not increase, the Association of Spanish diplomats (ADE) offers a creative solution: to load the price of fees for consular procedures and save the part. If the initiative is applied, the cost of a passport, which is set by 30 euros, can be multiplied by almost four.