[4] On September 23, 1953, Torcuato Luca de Tena published in ABC that Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, leader of the Soviet police, was in Spain following the death of Joseph Stalin.

[5] When he was thirty, he decided to write books and pamphlets,[5] founding an individual agency called Agencia Europea, where he hired his colleagues Florentino Pérez Embid, Andrés Rueda, Lluis Valls, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora and Javier García Vinuesa,[6] with the aim of creating and spreading material containing pictures summarizing successful theatre plays or movies.

[7] This project was initially associated with Florentino Pérez Embid, Andrés Rueda, Luis Valls, Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora, Javier García Vinuesa, Antonio Fontán and Ángel Benito, among others.

During the 1970s, Europa Press achieved some of its major successes, such as providing the worldwide exclusive of the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and on the following year the designation of Adolfo Suárez as Prime Minister of Spain.

In the 1990s, the agency started its territorial expansion and opened business delegations in each one of the autonomous communities of Spain, as well as created services in Catalan, Basque, Galician and Asturian.

The agency implemented a strategy based on the control of expenses and on April 11 fired 7 workers, 36 hours after of knowing that Journalist Union of Madrid called for syndical elections in three companies of the group.