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Spain's premier publishes tax returns amid scandal
Spain's prime minister has published a summary of his income and tax returns in a bid to defuse a corruption scandal engulfing his government after ...
Corruption scandal new worry for hard-hit Spain
It's not as though Spain doesn't have enough to worry about— two years of recession, harsh austerity programs, sky-high unemployment and an unstable ...
Spanish ex-party treasurer quizzed over accounts
Protesters jeered the former treasurer of Spain's ruling Popular Party on Wednesday after prosecutors questioned him about documents that allegedly ...
Spain: officials given alleged corruption papers
A Spanish newspaper says it has given prosecutors documents it obtained that allegedly show under-the-table payments to leading members of the ...
Spanish PM rejects corruption allegations
Spainish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says newspaper allegations of wrongdoing against him are "completely false" and vowed that his government will ...
Spain's opposition calls on premier to resign
Spain's opposition leader has called on Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to resign and allow another person to lead the government in the wake of an ...
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 ...