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 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 Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy promised on Friday the country's economy would "take off" again in 2015 but opponents branded his optimism "indecent" with many Spaniards still suffering from cutbacks. https://www.thelocal.es/20141227/rajoy-spanish-economy-will-take-off-in-2015 Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:58:00 +0100 rajoy-spanish-economy-will-take-off-in-2015 Spain's prime minister admitted on Monday that jobless people and their families are still suffering the consequences of the economic crisis even though the country is gradually recovering from recession. https://www.thelocal.es/20141216/spanish-pm-steps-back-from-crisis-is-over-comments-spain-economy Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:48:00 +0100 spanish-pm-steps-back-from-crisis-is-over-comments-spain-economy 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 prime minister Mariano Rajoy has used a pre-summer press conference to trumpet the improvements in the country's economy, in a speech described by the opposition as "triumphalist" and "self-complacent". https://www.thelocal.es/20140801/schools-out-spanish-pm-signs-off-for-summer Fri, 01 Aug 2014 17:37:00 +0200 schools-out-spanish-pm-signs-off-for-summer The Spanish economy continued to claw its slow way back towards recovery, expanding in the first quarter of 2014 by 0.5 percent, the fastest rate in six years, the central bank said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140723/spanish-economy-growth-spain-quarter-2-2014 Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:30:00 +0200 spanish-economy-growth-spain-quarter-2-2014 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Sunday announced a new stimulus plan to boost Spain's competitiveness, including €6.3 billion ($8.6 billion) of investments and a cut in corporate tax. https://www.thelocal.es/20140601/spain-announces-plans-to-cut-corporate-tax Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:16:00 +0200 spain-announces-plans-to-cut-corporate-tax Spain confirmed on Thursday the fastest economic growth since a 2008 property crash, even as it struggled with a 26 percent unemployment rate. https://www.thelocal.es/20140529/spain-confirms-growth-march-2014-economy-forecast Thu, 29 May 2014 12:07:00 +0200 spain-confirms-growth-march-2014-economy-forecast The number of unemployed people who have given up hope of finding a job has risen by 21 per cent since 2011 and now totals almost half a million, new figures from Spain's national statistic institute reveal. https://www.thelocal.es/20140523/dispirited-spaniards-abandon-job-search Fri, 23 May 2014 12:57:00 +0200 dispirited-spaniards-abandon-job-search Spain on Wednesday reported its fastest economic growth in six years in the first quarter of 2014 despite the blight of a 26-percent unemployment rate. https://www.thelocal.es/20140430/spain-grows-04-percent-economy-growth-ine Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:05:00 +0200 spain-grows-04-percent-economy-growth-ine Spain's economy grew at the fastest pace in six years in the first quarter of 2014, the central bank said on Thursday in a preliminary estimate. https://www.thelocal.es/20140424/spain-economy Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:41:00 +0200 spain-economy Spain barely missed its deficit-cutting target for 2013 with the government hailing the result as a significant achievement in a year of job-wrecking recession. https://www.thelocal.es/20140329/spain-barely-misses-2013-deficit-target Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:20:00 +0100 spain-barely-misses-2013-deficit-target Struggling Spaniards are rebelling against high electricity prices, which have soared by 42 percent since an economic crisis erupted in 2008 reports AFP's Anna Cuenca. https://www.thelocal.es/20140119/hair-rising-electric-prices-jolt-spaniards Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:28:00 +0100 hair-rising-electric-prices-jolt-spaniards More and more Spaniards are seeking free food in the form of soup kitchens as the soaring costs of everyday life are set to bring a cruel Christmas as AFP's Daniel Bosque investigates. https://www.thelocal.es/20131222/spanish-demand-for-soup-kitchens-on-the-rise Sun, 22 Dec 2013 09:36:00 +0100 spanish-demand-for-soup-kitchens-on-the-rise Spain said on Thursday it has technically escaped a two-year recession by posting feeble growth in the third quarter, but with an unemployment rate still towering at 26 percent. https://www.thelocal.es/20131128/official-spains-recession-comes-to-close Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:11:00 +0100 official-spains-recession-comes-to-close Spain is unlikely to hit European Union deficit targets by 2016, with the public deficit set to be 5.9 percent next year and rising to 6.6 percent in 2015, the European Commission said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131105/spain-way-off-on-deficit-targets-eu Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:06:05 +0100 spain-way-off-on-deficit-targets-eu 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 escaped from its two-year recession in the third quarter of this year with timid growth as job destruction eased, the country's central bank said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131023/spains-recession-is-over-central-bank Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:26:00 +0200 spains-recession-is-over-central-bank Spain is about to raise its forecasts for economic growth and employment as it emerges from a two-year recession, the country's economy minister said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20130916/confident-spain-set-to-revise-up-growth-forecast Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:56:08 +0200 confident-spain-set-to-revise-up-growth-forecast Spain's two-year, job-wrecking recession eased in the second quarter of 2013, official data showed on Thursday, as Madrid anticipated an imminent, export-powered end to the downturn. https://www.thelocal.es/20130829/madrid-hails-export-powered-end-to-recession Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:53:00 +0200 madrid-hails-export-powered-end-to-recession