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 recovering economy could grow as much as 2.5 percent this year if oil prices and the euro stay low, the economy minister said in an interview published on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150126/spain-could-grow-25-in-2015-minister Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:47:00 +0100 spain-could-grow-25-in-2015-minister Updated: Spain's unemployment rate fell for the second straight year in 2014 to 23.7 percent as an economic recovery gained pace, but remains at one of the highest levels in the European Union, official data showed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150122/30 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:50:00 +0100 30 Spain's jobless queues shrank by 253,627 from December 2013 to December 2014, new figures released on Monday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20150105/unemployment-falls-by-417000-in-2014 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:22:00 +0100 unemployment-falls-by-417000-in-2014 Spain's youth unemployment rate is the highest in the European Union, more than seven times the equivalent figure in Germany, official EU figures published on Friday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20141128/spains-youth-jobless-rate-europes-highest Fri, 28 Nov 2014 14:05:00 +0100 spains-youth-jobless-rate-europes-highest Updated: Over 150,000 Spaniards found work from July to September, Spain's best summer since the country's economic crisis began, official figures released on Thursday show, but youth unemployment remains chronically high. https://www.thelocal.es/20141023/spain-creates-150000-new-jobs-in-summer Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:31:00 +0200 spain-creates-150000-new-jobs-in-summer The Spanish economy grew 0.6 percent from April to June, or one decimal point more than initial Bank of Spain estimates, official figures released on Wednesday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20140730/spanish-economy-grows-06-percent-in-second-quarter Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:33:00 +0200 spanish-economy-grows-06-percent-in-second-quarter Spain's government on Tuesday raised its growth forecasts for this year and next as the country pulls away from economic crisis, and said it hopes this will soon cut into high unemployment. https://www.thelocal.es/20140729/bullish-spain-bumps-up-growth-forecast Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:36:00 +0200 bullish-spain-bumps-up-growth-forecast Over 400,000 people went back to work in the second quarter of 2014, the highest such three-month figure since the middle of 2005, official figures released on Thursday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20140724/spain-creates Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:40:00 +0200 spain-creates Spain saw its jobless numbers drop by over 111,000 in May, the largest fall for the month on record, official figures released on Tuesday show. https://www.thelocal.es/20140603/spain-unemployment-queues-shrink-may-2014 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:31:00 +0200 spain-unemployment-queues-shrink-may-2014 UPDATED: Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared on Tuesday that a job-wrecking trend had been snapped after new figures showed a record slump in the jobless queue in April. https://www.thelocal.es/20140506/unemployment-queues-shrink-by-jobless-ine-epa Tue, 06 May 2014 12:03:00 +0200 unemployment-queues-shrink-by-jobless-ine-epa Spain's unemployment rate climbed to nearly 26 percent in the first quarter of 2014, official data showed Tuesday, as millions searched in vain for a job in a halting recovery from recession, but the news was not all bad. https://www.thelocal.es/20140429/spains-jobless-rate-falls-by Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:16:00 +0200 spains-jobless-rate-falls-by Spain has managed to push down its unemployment rate to 25.77 percent — by adjusting the formulas used to establish the country's jobless rate to include the latest census data. https://www.thelocal.es/20140424/spain-fiddles-bring-down-unemployment-epa-jobless Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:17:00 +0200 spain-fiddles-bring-down-unemployment-epa-jobless A new map puts Spain's chronic unemployment under the microscope, showing which parts of the country have been hardest hit by the jobs crisis. https://www.thelocal.es/20140218/viral-map-reveals-spains-jobless-hotspots Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:22:00 +0100 viral-map-reveals-spains-jobless-hotspots Spain's unemployment rate hit 26 percent again this week. Here The Local gives you seven stats that will help you understand just how serious the situation is. https://www.thelocal.es/20140124/seven-shocking-facts-about-spanish-unemployment Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:26:00 +0100 seven-shocking-facts-about-spanish-unemployment The Spanish economy grew by 0.3 percent in the last quarter of 2013 but shrank by 1.2 percent over the whole year, the Bank of Spain said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140123/struggling-spain-enters-fragile-growth-phase Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:55:00 +0100 struggling-spain-enters-fragile-growth-phase UPDATED: The unemployment rate in Spain rose again in the final quarter of 2013 to hit 26.03 percent, slightly up from the 25.98 percent figure recorded in the previous quarter, official data released on Thursday shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20140123/spains-jobless-climbs-back-up-to-26-percent Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:14:00 +0100 spains-jobless-climbs-back-up-to-26-percent Spain's jobless rate eased slightly to 25.98 percent in the third quarter of 2013, official data showed on Thursday, a day after the country's central bank signalled the technical end of a long recession. https://www.thelocal.es/20131024/spains-jobless-rate-registers-tiny-drop Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:20:00 +0200 spains-jobless-rate-registers-tiny-drop Spain's jobless queues grew in September as a summer jobs boom ended, breaking a six-month run of shrinking unemployment lines, government figures showed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131002/unemployment-queues-grow-after-summer-jobs-boom Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:13:00 +0200 unemployment-queues-grow-after-summer-jobs-boom Spain's unemployment rate fell for the fifth month in a row in June, but most of the new jobs created are only temporary, figures released on Friday by Spain's Employment Ministry show. https://www.thelocal.es/20130802/spain-sees-fifth-month-of-falling-jobless-figures Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:51:00 +0200 spain-sees-fifth-month-of-falling-jobless-figures