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Spanish ruling party denies reports of backhanders
Spain's governing Popular Party was battling Thursday to defend its honor by denying fresh newspaper reports of regular under-the-table payments to ...
Pressure on Spanish PM to explain Swiss bank money
Pressure piled up Tuesday on Spanish conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, with opposition parties demanding he appear before Parliament to ...
Spain's ruling party plans audit of its finances
Spain's governing Popular Party said Monday it will commission an external audit of its finances to fend off corruption allegations, days after the ...
Spain's ruling party to probe alleged corruption
Spain's governing Popular Party announced Saturday that it will investigate the financial activities of a former treasurer whom a court said had ...
Spain ruling party pressed over alleged corruption
A former Spanish ruling party treasurer amassed €22 million ($29 million) in Swiss bank accounts, a court said, prompting a barrage of questions ...
Key measures in Draghi's first year as ECB chief
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has been in the job since November 2011. Here are some of the key steps the bank has taken to ease Europe's ...
P.M. Rajoy says Spain faces tough year ahead
Spain faces another tough year as it grapples with recession, a deep financial crisis and 25 percent unemployment, its prime minister said Friday.
Stocks lower ahead of US 'fiscal cliff' talks
European and U.S. shares traded lower on Friday on waning hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama and key lawmakers would manage to reach an 11th-hour ...
Spanish PM defends year of austerity amid protests
Spain's prime minister defended his conservative government's imposition of austerity measures during its first year in power on Monday, even as ...
Spain's house prices keep tumbling
Spain's ailing property market showed little sign of recovery Friday, with the latest figures showing house prices were down some 15 percent in the ...
Bank aid money arrives in Spain
The Spanish government said Wednesday that the €39.5 billion ($51.3 billion) in bailout funds approved by European authorities for the country's ...
Spanish state universities protest cutbacks
Rectors from about 50 state-run universities across Spain protested Monday that government spending cuts were choking third-level education and would ...
Thousands protest Spain's health care austerity
Thousands of Spanish medical workers and residents angered by budget cuts and plans to partly privatize the cherished national health service marched ...
Barcelona soccer club defends use of Catalan
Long a symbol of Catalan identity, Barcelona soccer club added its voice Wednesday to a simmering political dispute between the region of Catalonia ...
Spain's disabled protest austerity cuts
Disabled people took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday in the latest protest against broad austerity measures, angry over government cutbacks ...
Independence drive falters for Spain's Catalonia
Voters in Spain's Catalonia region favored the right to decide on possible independence but split their ballots between fractious parties, making the ...
Spain's Catalonia punishes pro-referendum leader
Voters in the economically powerful region of Catalonia on Sunday punished the leader who made a referendum over breaking away from Spain a central ...
Spain: Residency for foreigners who buy houses
Looking for a new place to call home? Spain is hoping to give you a little bit more than a welcome basket of baked goods if you decide to move there.
Brazil president warns Europe of austerity danger
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has warned that too much austerity could make it difficult for the 17-nation eurozone to emerge from the financial ...
Spain asks for LatAm help at Iberoamerican summit
Spain's prime minister on Saturday joined its king in asking former Latin American colonies to help the EU nation overcome a deep financial crisis by ...
Glum Spain hosts summit for booming Latam nations
In an historic role reversal, recession-hit Spain and Portugal on Friday courted the Latin American leaders of their former colonies, countries that ...
Obama speaks with Putin, Karzai about re-election
The White House says President Barack Obama has talked to several foreign leaders about his re-election, including Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
Spanish banks halt evictions amid growing protests
Spain's major banks agreed on Monday to suspend some evictions of homeowners unable to pay their mortgages after hundreds of thousands of Spaniards ...