Tag: Spain

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 00:11 UTC

  Spanish president-elect Rajoy will only say he has mandate for austerity measures

  

  President-elect Mariano Rajoy resisted pressure on Monday to disclose his plans for rescuing Spain from economic disaster, keeping anxious Spaniards and impatient investors on edge following his election triumph.

• Monday, November 21st 2011 - 03:40 UTC

  Overwhelming victory and absolute majority for Spanish conservatives

  

  The conservative opposition People's Party (PP) won an overwhelming victory in Spain's election on Sunday as voters vented their rage on the ruling Socialists for the worst economic crisis in generations.

• Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 06:02 UTC

  ECB comes to the rescue of Spain; Conservative landslide anticipated Sunday

  

  Spaniards may hand the biggest majority in three decades to the conservative opposition People’s Party leader Mariano Rajoy, as polls suggest Europe’s debt crisis will push a fifth government from power.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  Spain conservatives set for landslide victory and outright majority in parliament

  

  Spain's opposition conservative Popular Party (PP) has maintained the strong margin with which it is expected to win this month's general election, with a runaway lead of between 14 and 18 percentage points over the ruling Socialists, two opinion polls showed Sunday.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:30 UTC

  Polls indicate that Rajoy and the conservatives will win by a wide margin in Spain

  

  Spain's centre-right People's Party will comfortably win parliamentary elections in two weeks time, 20 November, with an absolute majority, a private poll showed, as voters punish the Socialist government for the country's economic woes.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 00:38 UTC

  Spain’s PP wants a return to ‘bilateralism’ in dealing with the Gibraltar dispute

  

  Gibraltar could be heading for stormy days if as opinion polls indicate Spain’s Partido Popular sweeps into power and has plans to resuscitate the ‘bilateral’ Brussels process by opposition to the current ‘trilateral’ talks.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 16:19 UTC

  Record unemployment in Spain hits 21.5% with five million out of a job

  

  Spain's unemployment hit a 15-year high in the third quarter with little hope new jobs will be created any time soon by a battered economy that remains at the forefront of investor concerns about Europe's debt commitments.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 23:34 UTC

  Euro zone largest bank profits down as bad loans in Spain keep growing

  

  The Euro zone's biggest bank Santander said it expected bad loans in Spain to keep on growing as Spaniards, blighted by unemployment and heavy mortgage debt, fall into arrears on payments.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 21:25 UTC

  Basque ETA group calls a “definitive cessation” of hostilities, reports BBC

  

  The Basque separatist group ETA says it has called a “definitive cessation” to its campaign of bombings and shootings. In a statement provided to the BBC, Eta called on the Spanish and French governments to respond with “a process of direct dialogue”.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  Spain’s leading banker says “obligatory” recapitalization could further weaken banking system

  

  Spain’s Banco Santander SA Chairman Emilio Botin warned of the risks of an “obligatory, indiscriminate” recapitalization of European banks without a final resolution of the sovereign debt crisis.