MADRID | By Julia Pastor | There are not registers or official data about the real number of mortgages affected by floor clauses, but market sources estimate 80% of the whole.
BEIJING | By Qu Yunxu at Caixin | The European Commission is imposing a provisional anti-dumping tariff on Chinese solar panels until August. Beijing has launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation over European wine in China. What’s behind this war?
MADRID | The Abengoa-Triton deal values Befesa at an enterprise value of €1,075 million.
MADRID | By Antonio Sánchez-Gijón at CapitalMadrid | Turkey protests cannot hide the country’s real problems, such as Ankara’s lost of influence in the region and the stagnation of negotiations with the EU to join the club.
MADRID | By Francisco López | In spite of the frequent denials coming from Madrid, though, using that cash–officially it isn’t called a banking rescue but “financial assistance in favourable conditions”–would be a clever thing to do.
VALENCIA | By Eva Maria Javier | Alfredo Baratas Díaz is Full Proffesor of Science History at the School of Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid as well as the author of Primer Centenario de un Premio Nobel: Ramón y Cajal (Centennial of a Nobel Prize: Ramón y Cajal).
BRUSSELS | After a period of pushback, proponents of austerity are retaking the intellectual high ground and promoting responsible budgeting throughout the developed world, writes Michael M. Rosen at the American Enterprise Institute magazine The American.
WARSAW | The tables have now turned for job seekers in Europe. As austerity and unemployment drives young people from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece in search of work, Poland is rapidly becoming an attractive destination for international job hunters.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | The Spanish company’s net profit in 1Q13 came to €438 M, which means a growth of 2% compared to last year same period , when Inditex exceded all expectations. Net sales rose by 5% to €3,59 Bn. Its financial position remains solid with € 3,66 Bn.
MADRID | By Luis Martí | What is worrying is the Bundesbank attitude of permanent and frank opposition to the initiatives of the ECB to overcome the crisis, being against any flexibility and realism that the economy is needing.