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
Tags: Spain, unemployment
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.
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
Tags: economic recovery, finance minister, Spain
IN a recent letter printed in the Olive Press (issue 83) a reader made a plea to PM Jose Luis Zapatero to finally clamp down on Spain’s infamous black market.
05/28/2010
— Filed under: Finance
Tags: black economy, Spain
The World Bank says the economic situation in Spain is «very serious».
«The global economic recovery continues, but the debt crisis of Europe has placed new obstacles in the path to a sustainable medium-term growth,» says the report released Friday.
A Spanish judge will face trial for alleged abuse of power in his probe into human rights abuses under the former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, a Supreme Court spokeswoman told CNN Wednesday.
05/15/2010
— Filed under: Crime
Tags: judge, Spain, Supreme Court
Shares in Spanish banks have fallen after the government had to rescue one of the country’s biggest regional lenders over the weekend.
Spain’s Interior Ministry says it has arrested a leading drug lord belonging to the Italian Camorra organized crime syndicate.
In the rush to fix its struggling savings banks, Spain risks leaving the job half finished.
05/5/2010
— Filed under: Business,Society
Tags: banks risks, Spain
Stocks have risen in Europe and Asia after Spain announced plans to cut its budget deficit, easing worries that Europe’s debt crisis could spread.
04/24/2010
— Filed under: Business
Tags: Spain, stock markets
