Spiritually it may as well not be. They usually stand on their own and stay out of the news when it comes to politics of Western Europe as a whole, since they were kept out of the UN post WWII. The biggest tie to the rest of Western Europe recently is that of organized crime; the Garduña of old evolved into the Comorra of today, well known across Europe, especially in Italy, obviously.

Telefónica, the main spanish telco company, is one of the Firefox OS partners.