https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spain's Socialist cabinet on Friday approved a plan to persuade some of the roughly one million workers who left the country during its 2008-2013 economic slump to return home. https://www.thelocal.es/20190322/spain-launches-plan-to-lure-back-workers-who-left-during-crisis Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:31:01 +0100 spain-launches-plan-to-lure-back-workers-who-left-during-crisis The Spanish government said Wednesday it is working on a plan to persuade skilled workers who left the country during its 2008-2013 economic slump to return home. https://www.thelocal.es/20181114/spain-wants-to-woo-back-skilled-workers-who-left-due-to-crisis Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:08:18 +0100 spain-wants-to-woo-back-skilled-workers-who-left-due-to-crisis The proposed eviction of an elderly couple who are deaf and dumb and can’t read or write because they unwittingly acted as guarantors for their son’s bank loan has sparked public outcry in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20161011/elderly-deaf-and-dumb-couple-face-eviction-over-sons-debt Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:52:16 +0200 elderly-deaf-and-dumb-couple-face-eviction-over-sons-debt Spain’s economy is powering ahead at the fastest pace since the start of the global financial crisis in 2007. https://www.thelocal.es/20150730/spain-sees-fastest-economic-growth-since-crisis Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:19:31 +0200 spain-sees-fastest-economic-growth-since-crisis Building plots left abandoned after the bottom fell out of Spain's construction market have been reborn as urban vegetable as crisis-hit Spaniards rediscover the joy of the allotment. https://www.thelocal.es/20150729/from-building-sites-to-cabbage-patches-in-spains-crisis Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:29:29 +0200 from-building-sites-to-cabbage-patches-in-spains-crisis Greece on Sunday faced a final EU summit to clinch a deal that would stop Athens crashing out of the euro after divided eurozone ministers halted "very difficult" talks on a new bailout overnight. https://www.thelocal.es/20150712/greece-faces-d-day-as-bailout-talks-resume Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:57:34 +0200 greece-faces-d-day-as-bailout-talks-resume Spain is open to negotiating a new bailout for Greece after Greek voters rejected creditors' austerity demands in a weekend referendum, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150706/minister-spain-open-to-negotiating-with-greece Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:45:56 +0200 minister-spain-open-to-negotiating-with-greece Spain's conservative government has raised its economic growth forecast for this year to 3.3 percent and to 3 percent in 2016, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150702/optimistic-pm-raises-spains-growth-forecast Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:09:57 +0200 optimistic-pm-raises-spains-growth-forecast An agreement was signed between Spanish workers' unions and employer organisations that will see salaries raised for the first time in three years. https://www.thelocal.es/20150608/workers-get-a-raise-after-3-years-of-frozen-wages Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:38:34 +0200 workers-get-a-raise-after-3-years-of-frozen-wages Spain has recovered only five percent of €51.3 billion ($57.2 billion) of state aid given to the country's banking sector since 2009 to prevent its collapse, the Bank of Spain said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150505/only-5-percent-of-bank-aid-recovered-spain-central-bank Tue, 05 May 2015 11:11:21 +0200 only-5-percent-of-bank-aid-recovered-spain-central-bank Hunched over her sewing machine in a Spanish workshop, a woman puts together a ballerina slipper which will soon slip onto the foot of a customer in Madrid, New York or Tokyo. https://www.thelocal.es/20150429/underground-economy-helps-spanish-shoe-sector-shine Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:36:59 +0200 underground-economy-helps-spanish-shoe-sector-shine The eurozone's biggest bank, Spain's Santander, said on Tuesday its first quarter net profit jumped 32 percent as strengthening economic recovery in its home market boosted revenue. https://www.thelocal.es/20150428/santanders-profits-jump-as-spanish-economy-recovery Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:42:31 +0200 santanders-profits-jump-as-spanish-economy-recovery Spain's economic recovery is being threatened by political instability and the crisis in debt-plagued Greece, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150427/rajoy-recovery-threatened-by-political-instability-greece Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:28:14 +0200 rajoy-recovery-threatened-by-political-instability-greece Spain's government says the economy is improving after years of crisis, but thousands of families are still suffering. https://www.thelocal.es/20150318/spains-indignants-combat-mass-eviction-trauma Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:00:46 +0100 spains-indignants-combat-mass-eviction-trauma Nearly 35,000 home foreclosures were carried out last year in Spain, or 95 each day, as families struggled to make mortgage payments despite a rebound in the economy, official data published Thursday showed. https://www.thelocal.es/20150306/hundred-spanish-families-lose-home-every-day-data Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:07:23 +0100 hundred-spanish-families-lose-home-every-day-data From cheap pop-up theatre to city allotments, from Podemos to car sharing, the economic crisis has given Spain its fair share of silver linings. https://www.thelocal.es/20150218/the-eight-coolest-things-the-crisis-did-for-spain Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:24:00 +0100 the-eight-coolest-things-the-crisis-did-for-spain Behind the iron door of a ground floor flat in Madrid's working-class suburb of Vallecas around 30 people have gathered as Veronica Hidalgo announces she will be evicted from her home in 2015. https://www.thelocal.es/20150104/bleak-2015-outlook-for-crisis-hit-spaniards Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:26:27 +0100 bleak-2015-outlook-for-crisis-hit-spaniards The UK chain Poundland has entered the Spanish market with its formula of top-brand products at rock-bottom prices now available in Alicante, Torremolinos and, as of Friday, Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20141031/uk-bargain-store-launches-in-crisis-hit-spain Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:35:00 +0100 uk-bargain-store-launches-in-crisis-hit-spain Five straight quarters of growth have seen Spain's unemployment drop to lowest level since 2011, although it still stands at over 23 percent. https://www.thelocal.es/20141030/spanish-economy-expands-by-05-in-third-quarter Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:00:00 +0100 spanish-economy-expands-by-05-in-third-quarter Spain's public debt ratio will top the symbolic level of 100 percent of national output next year, well above European Union guidelines, before it starts dropping in 2017, the government's 2015 budget proposal showed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20141001/spain-public-debt-to-hit-100-percent-budget-gdp-economy Wed, 01 Oct 2014 11:37:00 +0200 spain-public-debt-to-hit-100-percent-budget-gdp-economy