Spain

  • Aug 24, 2012
  • 7 min read

Rajoy may use Spain's crisis to reform the state

Just nine months after its election, the political capital of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's...

Spain
  • Aug 20, 2012
  • 6 min read

Innovation gap grows as EU dithers over common patent

Disagreements between member states and the European Parliament (EP) may further delay the...

EU
  • Aug 20, 2012
  • 2 min read

Spain's full bailout is a question of how, not when

Finance Minister Luis de Guindos yesterday said that before the PP government asks for a full...

Spain
  • Aug 17, 2012
  • 2 min read

ESM seniority status spat may scupper Spanish rescues

Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said today Finland would oppose any attempt to change the ESM's...

EU
  • Aug 14, 2012
  • 2 min read

Germany unlikely to defy euro-area slowdown for long

GDP fell by 0.2% in the EU and in the euro-area in the second quarter following stagnation in the...

EU
  • Aug 3, 2012
  • 7 min read

Draghi disappoints while buying time for euro-area

ECB President Mario Draghi yesterday revealed the Bank's new strategy to protect the euro. This...

EU
  • Aug 2, 2012
  • 2 min read

Germany and EU law will block ESM banking licence

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said yesterday that the ESM, the 500 billion euro (613 billion...

EU
  • Jul 31, 2012
  • 7 min read

Spanish bailout remains likely, despite European help

Inter-linkage between the public sector, the financial system and the broader economy has...

Spain