Spain

After adopting the euro, the Spanish economy initially benefited from sharply lower interest rates, spurring a property bubble. However, with the onset of the global financial crisis, property prices collapsed, causing widespread layoffs, and pushing unemployment to more than 26 per cent by the end of 2012. Spain received a bank bailout from the European Central Bank in 2012.

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British fugitive Andrew Moran seized in dramatic swoop on villa in Spain

13 May 2013

Spanish police have arrested a British fugitive who had been on the run since he escaped from security guards during a 2009 armed robbery trial.

Andrew Moran, 31, was seized on Friday...

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Chinese suspects seized over drug money scam in Spain

10 May 2013

Spanish police have arrested six suspects, including one from Hong Kong, who allegedly laundered hundreds of thousands of euros a week in drug money. Officers exposed a network including two...

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Spain’s Rajoy balks at making deeper reforms

9 May 2013

After a year of radical reforms that made Spain more competitive but also exacerbated a deep recession, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has largely lost his appetite for aggressive and unpopular cuts...

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Pilot dies in jet crash fireball at Spanish air show

7 May 2013

A pilot was killed after a vintage plane crashed into a hangar and exploded in a fireball at a Spanish air show. Ladislao Romero, 35, an experienced jet pilot and assistant to Spain's Defence...

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Europe austerity debate to weigh on Spain’s new economic plans

26 Apr 2013

Spain will unveil new economic plans on Friday that government officials say will tread a fine line between growth and austerity.

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Spain's government, under Church pressure, vows to tighten abortion law

19 Apr 2013

Spain's centre-right government, under pressure from the Catholic Church and its own ultraconservative wing, has vowed "promptly" to tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition...

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Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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King Juan Carlos falls from grace in scandal-weary Spain

Spain’s King Juan Carlos stood with a throng of smiling journalists and onlookers, exchanging pleasantries, laughing at jokes and even trying on a pair of sunglasses proffered by a reporter from a...

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Spain's Princess Cristina is suspect in corruption case

Spain's Princess Cristina has been summoned to testify as a suspect in a corruption case, a judicial source said yesterday, dealing a blow to the prestige of the royal family including her father...

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Spain back on track as big guns hit the target

Europe’s top teams took important steps towards next year’s World Cup finals in Brazil with qualifying victories on Tuesday, notably world champions Spain who scored a hugely significant 1-0 win...

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Briefs, March 11, 2013

Kenya's press called for reconciliation between the winners and losers in the country's presidential election, as calm prevailed a day after the results were declared, in striking contrast to the...

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CUBA

Madrid accused of covering up Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya's death

Spain's government is aiding a cover-up of the mysterious death of one of Cuba's most respected opposition leaders, who died after an unmarked police car rammed the car he was travelling in,...

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Beijing's late move in extradition fight over fugitive accountant revealed

A Spanish court freed a fugitive accountant wanted by Hong Kong over an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud despite an eleventh-hour intervention by Beijing, the Sunday Morning Post has learned.

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