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.
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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.
Do you really want dation in payment to fix Spain’s mortgage social crisis?
MADRID By Fernando G. Urbaneja | Dation in payment and moreover retroactivity is a very dangerous legal structure because it brings uncertainty, risks and unforeseen consequences, which in many cases are against the spirit of what its proponents intended in the first place.
Say Adiós to the Spanish current account surplus
BNP Paribas said Friday in a report that figures will soon turn somehow worse: and that’s good news. It will mean households and companies are spending at a healthier levels.
Spanish bond sales higher than debt repayments in 2013
“The Spanish government surpassed the maximum amount of debt it planned to offer,” BNP explained, “and maintains its good results.”
Is a Spanish ‘tangentopoli’ against corruption in the cards?
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Guell | “Certain judges and prosecutors without recognized political affiliation have begun to consider the need to undertake a reform against corruption like the one that took place in Italy more than one decade ago.”
Waves of Spain political instability get to US shores… tempered, though
Last Thursday, while Spain was feeling a whole political earthquake, there was little notice of the new development in the Eurodrama in the US newsrooms.
Spain’s deficit: new year, new goals
BARCELONA | CaixaBank analysts | Spain’s deficit needs to be corrected by 1.8 percentage points of GDP in 2013. The cumulative deficit during the first three quarters of 2012 reaches 6.2% of GDP.
Spanish unemployment is a beast that can be defeated
MADRID | Don’t blame the recession as the only source of this huge Spanish unemployment when fiscal drag on salaries represents over 80% of overall receipts.