:Felipe González

González was born in Bellavista, Seville, the son of a small dairy farmer. He has a sister called Lola González Márquez, married to Francisco Germán Palomino Romera, by whom she has two sons, Felipe and Germán Palomino González.{{Cite web |title=Felipe González Marquez, * 1942 |url=https://geneall.net/es/name/467731/felipe-gonzalez-marquez/ |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=Geneall.net}} He studied law at Seville University and started his career as attorney specialising in labour law. While at the university he met members of the clandestine socialist trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT). He also contacted members of the PSOE and started taking part in the party's clandestine activity, necessary under the dictatorship of Franco. During that time he adopted the alias {{lang|es|Isidoro}}{{cite news |last1=Jáuregui |first1=Fernando |last2=Vega |first2=Pedro |title=El día en que 'Isidoro' se hizo con el PSOE |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1982/10/10/espana/403052406_850215.html |access-date=23 June 2024 |work=El País |date=10 October 1982 |language=es |quote=Pero Carmen, entre socarrona y queriendo llevarle la corriente al viejo dirigente, reacciona de inmediato y, por un extraño reflejo, se acuerda de un pariente lejano. "También le suelen llamar Isidoro". "Está bien; para nosotros serás Isidoro en lo sucesivo", zanja Llopis.}} and moved to Madrid. He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France.

By the time of Franco's death, González had become the most prominent figure among the left-wing of the democratic opposition to the regime, and played a critical role, along with then serving Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, in the Spanish transition to democracy. During the Suárez government, General and Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado asked González not to raise the debate of the Civil War and Francoist repression until the death of those of his generation.{{Cite book |last1=González |first1=Felipe |url=https://archive.org/details/elfuturonoesloqu0000gonz |title=El futuro no es lo que era: una conversación |last2=Cebrián |first2=Juan Luis |date=19 April 2002 |publisher=Punto de Lectura |isbn=978-84-663-0681-2 |language=es |access-date=2023-06-22}}{{cite web |last=Díez |first=Luis |date=10 March 2010 |title=Las listas de los esclavos del franquismo |url=http://www.ruedoiberico.org/blog/?p=803 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Éditions Ruedo ibérico |publisher={{ill|Cuarto Poder|es|Cuartopoder}}}}

In the first democratic general election after Franco's death, held in 1977, the PSOE became the second most-voted for party, and this served González to appear as a young, active and promising leader. However, he did not win the 1979 election and had to wait for 1982 and the dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre party to come into office.

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In the 1982 general election held on 28 October 1982, the PSOE gained 48.3% of the vote and 202 deputies (out of 350). On 2 December González became President of the Government of Spain, with Alfonso Guerra as his deputy. He was the first socialist to hold the post since the Spanish Civil War, and his government was the first since then in which none of its members had served under Francoism.{{Cite web|title=Spain - Franco's Spain, 1939–75 | Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain/Francos-Spain-1939-75|access-date=2022-02-14|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}

With a large majority in the Congress of Deputies, popularly known as "the roller" (Spanish: el rodillo),{{cite web |last=De los Reyes |first=Ignacio |date=28 October 2007 |title=La España de Felipe: Por el Cambio |trans-title=The Spain of Felipe: For Change |url=http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/2007/10/espana/25aniversario_triunfo_psoe/1982_1996/03.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |work=El Mundo |language=es}} González's election was met with tremendous expectation of change amongst Spaniards. Under his government, a wide range of social reforms were introduced.[https://web.archive.org/web/19970413215548/http://www.psoe.es/programa.htm PSOE ELECTION PROGRAM][https://web.archive.org/web/19970413215438/http://www.psoe.es/historia.htm#GOBIER HISTORY: THE PSOE IN GOVERNMENT (1982 - 1996)] Various labor measures were passed,[https://www.mites.gob.es/es/Guia/indices/index.htm Labor Guide. Chronological Index of Legislation (In Spanish) ] university education was reformed and expanded, the social security system was extended[https://www.ucm.es/data/cont/docs/862-2014-06-22-1998.pdf THE SPANISH WELFARE STATE UNDER THE PSOE GOVERNMENT (1982-1996) by MANUEL SANCHEZ DE DIOS][https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Social_Security_Law_in_Spain/rYoTEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Social Security Law in Spain By Thais Guerrero Padrón, María Isabel Ribes Moreno, María Teresa Velasco Portero, Cristina Sánchez-Rodas Navarro, Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko, María Gorrochategui Polo, Cristina Aragón Gómez, Daniel Pérez del Prado, María Arántzazu Vicente Palacio, Carmen Jover Ramírez, 2024] and a partial legalisation of abortion became law for the first time, despite opposition from the Roman Catholic Church. González pushed for reforms and a restructuring of the economy.

Also, from 1982 to 1994, Spanish social expenditure as a percentage of the European level rose from 63.7% to 87.6%.[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Regimes_Politics_and_Markets/qd7enfJ_PMUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=FIG.+4.2+Spanish+social+expenditure+as+a+percentage+of+the+European+level+(Germany,+France,+Italy,+United+Kingdom),+1980-1994&pg=PA181&printsec=frontcover Regimes, Politics, and Markets

Democratization and Economic Change in Southern and Eastern Europe By José María Maravall, 1997, P.181]

On 23 February 1983, the Government passed a law nationalising the company Rumasa, a private business that included merchant banking interests, on the grounds that it was at the point of bankruptcy and the government needed to protect the savings of depositors and the jobs of its 60,000 employees, a decision that aroused considerable criticism and a judicial conflict over the law that was only resolved, in favour of the government, in December 1986.

In the 1986 general election held on 22 June 1986, the PSOE gained 44.1% of the vote and 184 deputies in Parliament. González was elected prime minister for the second time. During this second term, Spain joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1986. González supported Spain remaining in NATO that same year in a referendum reversing his and the party's earlier anti-NATO position.

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On 29 October 1989, he won the 1989 general election with 39.6% of the vote and 175 seats,{{Cite web|url=http://www.elecciones.mir.es/MIR/jsp/resultados/index.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324190731/http://www.elecciones.mir.es/MIR/jsp/resultados/index.htm|url-status=dead|title=Spain's Ministry of the Interior: Official election results|archivedate=24 March 2010}} his third successive mandate. However, he lost the outright majority he had held since 1982.

On 6 June 1993, González won the 1993 general election with 38.8% of the vote and 159 deputies. His fourth victory was marred by the fact he was forced to form a pact with nationalist political parties from Catalonia and Basque country in order to form a new government.

Towards the end of 1995, there was a debate about whether González should lead the PSOE in the forthcoming general elections. The People's Party intensified its campaign to associate his period in office with a poor economic situation (although unemployment had begun to decline and the economic reforms of the previous decade initiated a lasting period of economic growth){{Cite web |title=Contabilidad Nacional de España |trans-title=National Accounts of Spain |url=http://www.ine.es/daco/daco42/cne00/pib.xls#Tabla_2!A1 |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |language=es |format=XLS}} and with accusations of corruption and state terrorism scandals, including allegations of waging a dirty war against the terrorist group ETA by means of the GAL. There was speculation in the press about Javier Solana as a possible replacement, but Solana was appointed Secretary General of NATO in December 1995.

In June 2020, the CIA declassified information confirming that Felipe González had authorised the creation of the GAL.{{Cite web |last=Lamant |first=Ludovic |date=16 June 2020 |title=Espagne: Felipe González de nouveau pointé du doigt pour avoir soutenu des mercenaires anti-ETA |trans-title=Spain: Felipe González Again Singled Out for Supporting Anti-ETA Mercenaries |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/160620/espagne-felipe-gonzalez-de-nouveau-pointe-du-doigt-pour-avoir-soutenu-des-mercenaires-anti-eta |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Mediapart |language=fr}}

Left with no other suitable candidate, the party was again led by González and in the 1996 general election held on 3 March 1996, they gained 37.4% of the vote and 141 deputies. They lost the election to the People's Party whose leader José María Aznar replaced González as prime minister (presidente in Spanish, not to be confused with the English use of the term) on 4 or 5 May 1996.

The Gonzalez government left behind a deep impact on the Spanish real economy, such as the expansion of the networks of highways and airports and the creation of new infrastructures, including high-speed rail in Spain. Gonzalez-led cabinets were the first to implement a national, comprehensive infrastructure program that included not only public works but also theatres, museums, and secondary schools. In addition, a comprehensive welfare state was established,{{cite web |title=Felipe González Speaker, Speeches, Booking Agent, Agency |url=http://en.thinkingheads.com/speakers/felipe-gonzalez |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425121620/http://en.thinkingheads.com/speakers/felipe-gonzalez |archive-date=25 April 2012 |access-date=30 December 2012 |website=Thinking Heads}} while improvements were made to social programmes such as pensions and unemployment benefits. A 40-hour workweek was introduced, while entitlement to paid holidays was extended to up to 30 days per year. Pension funds were also established, together with provisions for social tourism. In addition, the school-leaving age was raised from 14 to 16, while the number of educational grants was multiplied by eight.{{Cite book |last=Tusell |first=Javier |title=Spain: From Dictatorship to Democracy |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-444-33974-1 |language=en |translator-last=Clark |translator-first=Rosemary}}

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Unemployment protection was expanded{{Citation |last=Guillén |first=Ana |title=Defrosting the Spanish Welfare State: The Weight of Conservative Components |date=2010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n02d.11 |work=A Long Goodbye to Bismarck? |pages=183–206 |editor-last=Palier |editor-first=Bruno |access-date=2023-06-23 |series=The Politics of Welfare Reform in Continental Europe |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |jstor=j.ctt46n02d.11 |isbn=978-90-8964-234-9}} and a national education system for children under the age of six was established. Cash benefits in social housing, universal healthcare and education were introduced, along with earnings-based benefits for widowhood, sickness, disability and retirement. A Ministry of Social Affairs was also set up, allowing for social services to be decentralised in the early Nineties and to be available to all citizens, rather than only to those with social security.

The pension system was extended to needy people, universal public schooling was expanded for all children under the age of 16, and new universities were established. Healthcare was reformed, with Gonzalez creating the National Health Service and accelerating the development of primary care medicine based on health centres, where integral primary care for adults, pregnant women and paediatric patients was provided. Gonzalez presided over an increase in youth and women's participation in government.{{cn|date=November 2023}} State-run Televisión Española reached a high level of quality under the direction of Pilar Miró. Private television channels were also permitted in 1990, ending the state monopoly.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

File:S._Peres_schudt_de_Spaanse_premier_Gonzalez_de_hand._Op_de_vliegbasis_Valkenburg_arriveerde_S._Peres_(933-5414).jpg in 1986, establishing diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel, a historic step that would lead to the Madrid Conference of 1991 peace talks between Israel and Palestine]]

Felipe González also secured Spain's entry into the EEC, which the country joined in 1986, and consolidated democratic government.{{explain|date=November 2023}}{{Cite book|last1=Garcia|first1=David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e349BAAAQBAJ&q=Felipe+Gonz%C3%A1lez+Spain's+entry+into+the+EEC&pg=PA67|title=Contemporary Spanish Foreign Policy|last2=Pardo|first2=Ramon Pacheco|date=2014-08-07|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-63124-8|language=en}} Together with François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl, he revitalized efforts to push for European integration and extension of state power. He was a supporter of Kohl's drive for a united Germany, counteracting British and French hostility.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

González also started diplomatic relations with Israel, which had never been established by Franco because of antisemitism. Franco's successor Adolfo Suárez also refused to recognize Israel, while González' predecessor Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo would also fail to establish relations with Israel.{{cite book|last1=Bautista Delgado |first1=Juan |title=Palestine and International Law: Essays on Politics and Economics |chapter=From Ostracism to a Leading Role – Spain's Foreign Policy Towards the Middle East Since 1939 |editor=Sanford R. Silverburg|publisher=McFarland|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7864-4248-5|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9WlpL98TaAIC|page=309-311}} Gonzalez's time as Prime Minister of Spain also marked a significant reversal in Spain's relations with Israel, with González even becoming the first Spanish head of state to visit Israel in December 1991.{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/12/02/Spanish-Prime-Minister-Felipe-Gonzalez-making-the-first-visit/6830691650000/|title=Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, making the first visit...|first=Jonathan|last=Ferziger|publisher=UPI|date=December 2, 1991|accessdate=September 7, 2024}} He had also previously visited Israel in the 1970s under an assumed name. Spain and Israel would establish diplomatic relations on 17 January 1986.{{cite web|title=Euforia en todo Israel tras el anuncio oficial del reconocimiento español. Él Gobierno lo califica como paso muy importante.|publisher=ABC|access-date=2024-09-07|date=1986-01-18|url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1986/01/18/017.html|language=es|archive-date=2012-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904024421/http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1986/01/18/017.html|url-status=live}} Due to his prestige,{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} Spain also hosted the Madrid Conference of 1991 peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis; these were chaired by President George H. W. Bush of the United States and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The bilateral Israeli–Palestinian negotiations eventually led to the exchange of letters and the subsequent signing of the Oslo I Accord, on the lawn of the White House on 13 September 1993. The negotiations that emanated from the Madrid conference, led to the Israel–Jordan peace treaty in 1994. The Israeli–Syrian negotiations included a series of follow-on meetings, which according to some reports, came quite close, but failed to result in a peace treaty.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

In the fight against terrorism, an intense police campaign secured several victories that left the terrorist organisation ETA severely debilitated. In his earlier years ETA killings totalled dozens per year (the 1987 Hipercor bombing attack in Barcelona alone killed more than 10 people), while in his latter years ETA killed far fewer. During his time as Prime Minister a group called GAL was active as a gangster-style force targeting etarras (ETA members). Several innocent people were killed and the subsequent investigations ended with some police officers and the Minister of Internal Affairs, José Barrionuevo, condemned to jail. The Constitutional Court later ratified the sentence. Among successful operations were the capture of the ETA central arsenal and archives in Sokoa (France) and the capture of the organisation's ruling body in 1992.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

However, in the final years of his mandate several cases of corruption, the most notable of which were the scandals involving Civil Guard Director Luis Roldán, further eroded popular support for the PSOE. Nonetheless, González and most of his ministers generally managed to leave office with their reputations intact, although they had performed poor oversight of some lower ranking public servants, according to María Antonia Iglesias (La memoria recuperada. Lo que nunca han contado Felipe González y los dirigentes socialistas, 2003); Iglesias is very close, though, to the PSOE official line, as she served as head of the public TV broadcaster Televisión Española after appointment to the post by one of Gonzalez's cabinets.{{cn|date=November 2023}}

González ended his fourth term on 4 May 1996. Since September 1996 he has headed the Madrid-based Global Progress Foundation (FPG). At the beginning of the 34th PSOE National Congress on 20 June 1997 he surprisingly resigned as leader of the party. He also resigned from the federal executive committee, though retaining his seat in the Congress. With no clear successor, he continued to exert enormous influence over the party. He was only replaced at the 35th party Congress in July 2000 when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became the leader.

In 1996, González was the head of the OSCE delegation which was sent to Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a mediator in the dialogue between Serbian government and the opposition, following the mass protests which have started over the alleged electoral fraud at the 1996 Serbian local elections.

In 1997 he was considered a leading candidate to take over the position of President of the European Commission after Jacques Santer.{{Citation

| title = Europe's presidential race: the form

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}} The position ultimately went to Italy's Romano Prodi. File:05082012Global governance061.jpg 2012]]

In 1999 González was put in charge of the party's Global Progress Commission in response to globalisation. The commission's report formed the basis of the closing declaration of the 21st Socialist International Congress on 8–9 November 1999.

He stood down as a deputy in the Spanish Parliament in March 2004.

On 27 July 2007, the Spanish government appointed him a plenipotentiary and extraordinary ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations in commemoration of the independence of Latin America. The celebrations will begin in September 2010 in Mexico.{{cite web |last= |first= |date=26 July 2007 |title=El Gobierno nombrará mañana a Felipe González embajador extraordinario para el bicentenario de la independencia de América |trans-title=Government Will Appoint Felipe González Extraordinary Ambassador Tomorrow for US Bicentennial |url=http://www.cadenaser.com/articulo/espana/Gobierno/nombrara/manana/Felipe/Gonzalez/embajador/extraordinario/bicentenario/independencia/America/csrcsrpor/20070726csrcsrnac_7/Tes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084300/http://www.cadenaser.com/articulo/espana/Gobierno/nombrara/manana/Felipe/Gonzalez/embajador/extraordinario/bicentenario/independencia/America/csrcsrpor/20070726csrcsrnac_7/Tes/ |archive-date=29 September 2007 |access-date=1 August 2007 |website=Cadena SER |language=es}}

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At a summit held in Brussels on 14 December 2007, heads of state and government of European Union member states appointed González chairman of a think tank on the future of Europe. The group, consisting of up to nine prestigious personalities commissioned to draw up a report, by June 2010, on the challenges facing the European Union from 2020 to 2030, will also look at how to achieve a closer understanding between citizens and the Union.{{Cite web |date=14 December 2007 |title=Felipe González presidirá el Grupo de Reflexión sobre el futuro de Europa |trans-title=Felipe González will chair the Reflection Group on the future of Europe |url=https://www.publico.es/espana/felipe-gonzalez-presidira-grupo-reflexion.html |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=Público |language=es}}

In December 2014, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos granted González Colombian nationality.{{Cite web |date=2 December 2014 |title=Felipe González recibe de Santos la ciudadanía colombiana |trans-title=Felipe González receives Colombian citizenship from Santos |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/politica/gobierno/felipe-gonzalez-recibe-la-ciudadania-colombiana/14923456 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203025406/http://www.eltiempo.com/politica/gobierno/felipe-gonzalez-recibe-la-ciudadania-colombiana/14923456 |archive-date=3 February 2017 |access-date=13 May 2020 |website=El Tiempo |language=es}}

From 2010 to 2015, González was appointed independent director in Gas Natural-Fenosa, one of the leading energy companies in Spain, being one of the best-known high-profile cases of revolving doors in Spanish politics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gasnaturalfenosa.com/en/home/press+room/news/1285338473668/1307713137926/gas+natural+fenosa+incorporates+felipe+gonzalez+to+its+board+as+an+independent+director.html|title=Gas Natural Fenosa incorporates Felipe González to its Board as an independent director|website=gasnaturalfenosa.com|access-date=2016-11-22}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023|fix-attempted=yes}}

Since 2015 he has taken an active role in criticising the emerging party Podemos, which he considers a populist threat, and has actively lobbied the PSOE against approaching Podemos for any possible government coalition.{{Cite news |last1=Marcos |first1=José |last2=Manetto |first2=F. |date=2015-12-09 |title=Ex-PM González joins campaign fray with attack against Podemos |language=en |newspaper=El País |url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/12/09/inenglish/1449651984_585452.html |access-date=2016-11-22}} González supported PSOE candidate Pedro Sánchez in the 2015 and 2016 general elections, but in the aftermath Sánchez announced talks with Podemos and Catalan separatist parties. González then supported Susana Diaz faction in a bitter internal struggle which ended with PSOE facilitating the investiture of the conservative government and the dismissal of Pedro Sánchez.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/23/spains-socialists-lift-veto-to-allow-conservatives-to-rule-as-minority|title=Spain's Socialists lift veto to allow Rajoy minority government|last1=Burgen|first1=Stephen|date=2016-10-23|last2=agencies|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-11-22}}

In 2015 González travelled to Venezuela to support Leopoldo López and other imprisoned opposition leaders.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33042799|title=Felipe Gonzalez in Venezuela: Ex-Spain PM to help opposition|date=2015-06-07|newspaper=BBC News|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-11-22}} His involvement came at the same time mainstream media and political parties were accusing emerging Podemos of having links with the Venezuelan government.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/world/europe/venezuela-casts-a-long-shadow-on-elections-in-spain.html|title=Venezuela Casts a Long Shadow on Elections in Spain|last=Minder|first=Raphael|date=2016-06-19|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-11-22}}

González is a member of the Club of Madrid,{{Cite web|title=Club de Madrid, forum of democratic former Presidents and PMs|url=https://www.clubmadrid.org/|access-date=2022-02-14|website=Club de Madrid|language=es|archive-date=17 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617135442/https://clubmadrid.org/|url-status=dead}} an independent non-profit organisation composed of 81 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries.

In 2015, González was awarded the Distinguished Leadership Award for Public Service in the Americas Award by the Inter-American Dialogue for his tireless, effective, and ongoing public service and commitment to democracy in Latin America.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedialogue.org/felipe-gonzalez-marquez/|title=Felipe González|website=The Dialogue|language=en|access-date=2019-11-15}}

González married María del Carmen Julia Romero y López in Seville on 16 July 1969 and has three children: Pablo González Romero, David González Romero and María González Romero (lawyer). He divorced Carmen Romero in 2008. In 2012 he married Mar García Vaquero.{{Cite news|last=Galaz|first=Mábel|date=2012-08-02|title=Felipe González se ha casado con su novia, Mar García Vaquero|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2012/08/02/gente/1343933428_352306.html|access-date=2022-02-14|issn=1134-6582}}

One of his hobbies is tending bonsai trees. During his tenure at Moncloa, he received and cultivated several of them, mostly Mediterranean species, that he later donated to the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid.

His wife Mar García Vaquero is named in the Panama Papers scandal in 2016.{{Cite web |date=2016-04-20 |title=La mujer de Felipe González también aparece en «los papeles de Panamá» |url=https://www.larazon.es/lifestyle/gente/la-mujer-de-felipe-gonzalez-tambien-aparece-en-los-papeles-de-panama-JC12455639/ |access-date=2023-06-22 |website=www.larazon.es |language=es}}

• {{lang|es|"Un discurso ético"}} (co-authorship with Víctor Márquez Reviriego, 1982).
• {{lang|es|"El Socialismo"}} (1997).
• {{lang|es|"El futuro no es lo que era"}} (co-authorship with Juan Luis Cebrián, 2002).
• {{lang|es|"Memorias del futuro"}} (2003).
• {{lang|es|"Mi idea de Europa"}} (2011).

• Governments of Felipe González
• History of Spain
• List of prime ministers of Spain
• Politics of Spain

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• Wilsford, David, ed. Political leaders of contemporary Western Europe: a biographical dictionary (Greenwood, 1995) pp 176–82

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050418230939/http://ue.eu.int/cms3_fo/showPage.asp?id=464&lang=EN&mode=g EU Council CV]
• [http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1996/summer/gies-spain-today/ Analysis of his rule]
• [https://www.cidob.org/lider-politico/felipe-gonzalez-marquez Biography by CIDOB]

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