DUBLIN/MADRID: Europe’s growing number of shaky minority and coalition governments mostly managed to muddle through 2016 but their lack of political strength...
MADRID: Allen Toussaint, one of legendary names of New Orleans music, has died in Madrid at the age of 77.The piano master, known for jazz, R&B and blues and...
MADRID: Separatist parties won an absolute majority of seats in Catalonia's regional parliament on Sunday, deepening a standoff with Spain's central...
MADRID: The sudden rise of a new anti-establishment party has transformed Spanish politics a year before a general election, forcing the center-right...
MADRID: Spanish lawmakers were set to vote Tuesday in favor of their government recognizing Palestine as a state in a symbolic move intended to promote peace...
MELILLA, Spain: Yahya Khedr has traveled for more than two years, through five countries and with six forged passports to get his family from the war-ravaged...
THE HAGUE/MADRID: Standard & Poor’s agency cut the Netherlands’ credit rating Friday, reducing the eurozone club of full triple-A nations to just three, while...
BARCELONA: Hundreds of thousands of Catalans held hands in a 400-km human chain across their region Wednesday to press the Spanish government to let them vote...
MADRID: Spanish lenders are bracing for lower profits and dividends and a tougher funding environment under new rules meant to prepare them for pan-European...
MEXICO CITY: The world’s leading economies will give themselves more wiggle room to meet their own targets for cutting budget deficits rather than risk...
MEXICO CITY: Leading world economies plan to give themselves more time to meet their own targets for cutting budget deficits rather than risk aggravating a...
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will struggle on Sunday to retain support for his policies in two elections in his home region of Galicia and the...
BERLIN/BRUSSELS: Germany and France, Europe's two central powers, clashed over greater European Union control of national budgets and moves towards a single...
MADRID: Spain is ready to request a eurozone bailout for its public finances as early as next weekend but Germany has signaled that Madrid should hold off,...
ATHENS/MADRID: Demonstrators clashed with police on the streets of Athens and Madrid Wednesday in an upsurge of popular anger at new austerity measures being...
MADRID: Spain is considering freezing pensions and speeding up a planned rise in the retirement age as it races to cut spending and meet conditions of an...
NICOSIA: Spain told euro zone finance ministers on Friday it will set clear deadlines for structural reforms by the end of the month, in a move European...
MADRID: A widening fiscal gap and mounting pressure from the business community and credit ratings agencies leave Spain with little or no choice but to...
MADRID/BRUSSELS: Spain paid the second highest yield on short-term debt since the birth of the euro at an auction Tuesday, and EU officials said Greece had...
MADRID: Spain paid the second highest yield on short-term debt since the birth of the euro at an auction Tuesday, reflecting a growing belief that the country...
MADRID/BRUSSELS: Spain paid the second highest yield on short-term debt since the birth of the euro at an auction on Tuesday, and EU officials said Greece had...
MADRID: Spain’s economy sank deeper into recession in the second quarter, its central bank said Monday, as investors spooked by an undeclared funding...
MADRID: Recession-plagued Spain unveiled new austerity measures on Wednesday designed to slash 65 billion euros from the public deficit by 2014 as Prime...
BERLIN/MADRID: On the eve of a crucial summit that could determine the future of the eurozone, German Chancellor Angela Merkel brushed aside increasingly...
NICOSIA/MADRID: Cyprus said Monday it would seek a European bailout to handle fallout from the Greek crisis, becoming the fifth eurozone country needing...