This afternoon, the XING Spain blog announced that they are expanding standard features in Spain. In this way, XING appears to demonstrate its commitment to adapting to the local market by expanding the features of the standard (free) account.
As of today, XING users in Spain can send messages to their contacts without restriction, see who has visited their profile, include a status message, and use search options that were previously reserved for the Premium service (such as filtering by organization, university, or geographic area).

If you do not have a direct connection with a professional, you can still send them a message, but with a restriction of one message per week.

Naturally, if these were the features previously associated with a Premium account, one might wonder what will happen now. According to the blog, they will focus the Premium service on companies and professionals who use the platform intensively.
It will continue to include: sending messages to people who are not direct contacts of the user.
Posting job offers.
And an ad-free professional profile.