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We risk being shut out of financial markets, warns Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy
Thursday 17 May 2012
The Spanish Prime Minister has vigorously defended the austerity policies that united thousands who protested against the harsh cuts this week by warning that the country risked being shut out of the financial markets unless it works to bring its debt burden under control.
Spanish anger at austerity spills into the streets
Sunday 13 May 2012
Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens turned out in droves in the nation's largest cities.
Spanish treasury will sell three bonds next week
Friday 11 May 2012
Spain's Treasury said on today it will auction three bonds on 17 May.
Seve's son on familiar turf
Thursday 26 April 2012
Seve Ballesteros' eldest son, Javier, makes his professional golf debut today at the Alpes de Barcelona tournament being held at Sant Cugat, the same course where his father started out in 1974.
Abidal is 'OK' after transplant
Thursday 12 April 2012
The Barcelona defender Eric Abidal is recovering well after a liver transplant, his wife Hayet said in a statement posted on the player's official Facebook page yesterday.
Tips and deals of the week: Italian lakes; Madrid; New Orleans and Memphis
Wednesday 11 April 2012
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Spain burns as strikes bring nation to its knees
Friday 30 March 2012
Dozens injured and more than 170 arrested as austerity marches descend into violence
Summer's officially here (and so's the sun)
Saturday 24 March 2012
British Summer Time kicks off this weekend with the first summery weather of the year, with bright sunshine and temperatures in some places expected to reach 21 or even 22C.
Enrique Sierra: Guitarist with the influential Spanish band Radio Futura
Friday 23 March 2012
If Enrique Sierra, the ex-guitarist from Radio Futura – Spain's most important rock band of the post-Franco years – was to be remembered for one song, it would be the 1983 hit "Escuela de Calor". Relentlessly catchy and shot through with co-writer Sierra's simple, snappy guitar riffs, "Escuela de Calor" remains for many Spaniards a musical high-tide mark of la movida Madrileña. This was an explosion of artistic creativity, coupled with the breaking down of previously rigid social barriers and mores, that followed General Franco's death in 1975. For intensity, willingness to experiment and sheer novelty, la movida has never since been equalled in Spain. As for Radio Futura, they were one of la movida's musical standard-bearers.
Real Madrid happy to face Barcelona in Champions League
Thursday 15 March 2012
Real Madrid's players insist the club will be as happy to meet Barcelona as any other side in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
Thursday 02 February 2012
Sensational find in Madrid's Prado museum rewrites the history of art
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