Ministry of Economy and Finance (Spain)

Ministry of Economy and Finance
Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda

Main headquarters
Agency overview
Formed8 December 1982 (1st)
17 April 2004 (2nd)
Preceding agencies
Dissolved27 April 2000 (1st)
22 December 2011 (2nd)
Superseding agencies
TypeMinistry
JurisdictionGovernment of Spain
Websitewww.meh.es

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEH) was a ministerial department in the Government of Spain that merged the traditional ministries of Finance and Economy, with competences on economic affairs, public finance and budgets. It was established on two occasions: the first time during the premierships of Felipe González (1982–1996) and the first term of José María Aznar (1996–2000), and the second time during the premiership of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2011).

Due to its size and the vast amount of competences on economic and finance affairs under its control, it has been often dubbed as a "superministry".[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ "La crisis permanente del Ministerio de Economía". El País (in Spanish). 21 April 1988. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Pedro Sánchez perfila un giro a la estructura de los ministerios económicos". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 5 June 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  3. ^ "¿Quién será el próximo ministro de Economía? Todos los nombres de Sánchez". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 30 April 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Se abre la vía para que María Jesús Montero lidere un 'superministerio'". El Economista (in Spanish). 19 July 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.