Brussels tackles Spanish football clubs’ fiscal game
MADRID | Making them pay will prove difficult. Speaking to Hispanidad.com, tax lawyer Eduardo Cardona said most clubs have no assets to be seized.
Spanish economy
When will the crisis in Spain come to an end?
MADRID | Two German economic heavyweights are stirring the debate about the Spanish recovery: IFO President Hans-Werner Sinn, who recently said that “Spain will suffer 10 more years of crisis and an internal devaluation of 30%”, and Bundesbank Chairman’s, who thinks the crisis will last five more years. Both of them were as clear and firm as Germans usually are when speaking about Southern Europe.
Soledad Pellón, analyst at IG Markets: “Spain is right to avoid Greece-like bailouts”
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Soledad Pellón, analyst at IG Markets: “Spain is now in better conditions to start the recovery”
Political instability weighs on Spain’s agenda
MADRID | The Spanish government has suddenly disappeared from Europe’s scene. In the midst of a deep recession it crosses fingers hoping the German general elections’ aftermath might break the current deadlock on financial mutualisation and help to reconstitute the Southern front.
A tale of two Budgets in Spain
MADRID | The most effective cuts were delivered by sheer lack of money as regional and local authorities faced a disruptive lock-out in the credit market.
Spain’s bankers will get the same bonuses despite Brussels rules
MADRID | by Eduardo Segovia (El Confidencial) | Spanish big bankers are relieved despite the Ecofin intentions of limiting bonuses: since their wages do not exceed the new limits, they won’t be reduced next year.
UK Corp feasts in Spain
MADRID | By A. Laso D’Lom | According to official ICEX data about foreign investment, British gross investments in Spain in 2011 rose by 341 percent comparing to 2010 to €6.6 billion and reached the top place in the list of global investment in Spain.
Spain dispels the threat of a bailout
By CaixaBank Research | Tensions have eased in the sovereign debt markets of the periphery. The government is preparing to reform Spain’s public sector in 2013.
The wood, the trees and the Spanish regions
Madrid should never be afraid of the conflicts that interventions will spark, to be sure, but it will only succeed when the regional government has a clear poor reputation managing its own finances.
In wind power, Spain keeps the EU silver medal
Spain installed 1,122 new megawatt (MW) wind power in 2012, 6.8% more than the 1,050 MW of the previous year, totaling 22.796 MW, which makes it the second European county in wind power, behind Germany, with 31.308 MW.