The air chaos caused by the cloud of volcanic ash that has closed most major European airports was noticeable for a fifth day yesterday at the Málaga aerodrome. The most noticeable feature was the lack …

The unemployment rate in Spain will rise to 19.4 percent this year and 19.7 percent in 2011, according to a report by the Banco de Espana. Job creation will not start until the ‘final quarters’ …

Despite its own looming economic crisis, Spain has offered to pay 2 billion euros to the joint E.U./I.M.F. rescue package being assembled for the Greek economy and, by extension, to strengthen the euro.
Prime Minister José …

In an effort to deflect challenges from the opposition Popular Party, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on reiterated his administration’s commitment to reducing the country’s budget deficit through austerity measures.
Opposition leader Mariano Rajoy …

The European Parliament has launched another attack on Spain’s coastal law ‘Ley de Costas’ describing it as ‘abusive’
Labour and Conservative British MPs criticised the law on the Petitions Commission saying, in their opinion, it confiscates …

With many observers wondering whether Spain might go the way of Greece, which is now facing a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, the Spanish cabinet last Friday approved a bill to tackle many of …

Alan D. Solomont, the U.S. ambassador in Spain, called on the Spanish government to introduce some labor reforms and find a way to tackle the problem of unemployment. He recommended that Spain should chalk out a …

Before Petra Lazaro-Carrasco Perez got a kidney transplant, the former secretary had to spend three hours a day, three days a week, attached to a dialysis machine at a Madrid hospital.
Holding a job became impossible …

A mistake made by a civil servant who was applying for European Union protected habitat status for the coast has thrown the sovereignty of Gibraltar into question by allowing Spain to lay claim to its …