Spain workers lose bridge holidays in debt crisis austerity move

 employment office in Madrid.

In a nearly $20-billion package of spending cuts and tax increases passed by the parliament, the government moved most holidays away from midweek to Mondays to cut off time and increase productivity.

01/2/2012 — Filed under: Finance
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European Union turns screws on Greece, Spain, as recession looms

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European finance ministers on Tuesday ordered Greece and Spain to swiftly get debts under control as a recession threatened to undermine efforts to end a two-year crisis.

01/1/2012 — Filed under: Finance,Politics
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EU pushes Spain to take new reform, budget steps

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Spain’s new government needs to enact more reforms to cut the country’s joblessness levels and its fiscal deficit, the EU’s top economic official said on Wednesday, stressing that youth unemployment was a big worry.

12/23/2011 — Filed under: Finance
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Italy, Spain easily raise in euro28 billion

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Spain and Italy gave financial markets a boost Thursday as they successfully raised nearly euro22 billion ($27,98 billion) in two keenly watched debt auctions that showed renewed investor confidence in their attempts to get a grip on their debt problems.

12/18/2011 — Filed under: Finance
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Over four million unemployed in Spain

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10/4/2010 — Filed under: Business
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Spain marks bicentennial of its democracy

King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia

Spain Friday marked the bicentennial of the launch of its Cadiz Constitution, which is seen as having laid the foundations for its modern democracy.

08/22/2010 — Filed under: Politics
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Spain Raises Taxes on Higher Earners, Cuts Spending to Contain Budget Gap

Elena Saldago

Spain will raise taxes on the highest earners and cut spending in the most austere budget in at least three decades to slash the euro region’s third-largest deficit. The government raised its jobless forecast and left its economic-growth estimate unchanged.

08/21/2010 — Filed under: Finance
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Spain’s unemployment eases further in July

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The number of people unemployed in Spain, which has the highest rate in the euro zone, fell for the fourth month in a row in July as the tourism industry hired workers for the summer, the government said today.

07/19/2010 — Filed under: Business,Society
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Spain proposes deep cuts to solar PV support

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The Spanish government on Sunday announced plans to slash incentives for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations by up to 45 per cent, although it appeared to edge away from proposals that would have resulted in reduced support for existing installations.

07/18/2010 — Filed under: Business
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Spain admits economic recovery will be slow

Elena Salgado

Spain’s finance minister admitted on Sunday that the country’s economic recovery would be slow due to the government’s austerity drive.

05/31/2010 — Filed under: Finance
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