BARCELONA | By CaixaBank’s chief economist Jordi Gual | For an economy such as Spain’s that needs sustained flows of international capital, a crucial element will be its capacity to attract new international investment with a medium and long-term view.
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.
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).
MADRID | By JP Marín Arrese | Lacking enough resources to shore up potential contingencies, Spanish banks might be forced to ask for further assistance under the rescue umbrella.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Jobless numbers registered in Spanish public employment offices in last May dropped by 98,265 against market expectations of 50,000. It is a record high in this month since the unemployment data started to be collected in 1996.
MADRID | By JP Marín Arrese | So long Germany maintains a staunchly depressed environment, Brussels fiscal advices with no plan to boost employment and growth will soon run out of steam.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Small and medium size companies are the most vulnerable side of the European economy, but also the most powerful weapon to get out of the crisis. Germany will develop a €10 billion credit plan to move peripheral countries SMEs for their own export engine works.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Spain, according to Schaüble, is a good example of homework done. Germany’s Economy Minister praised labor costs reduction, export rate increase and all the effort the Spaniards have done in reorganizing their financial sector, even after the Troika’s review.
MADRID | By Carlos Díaz Guell | The future of Spain’s economic growth is uncertain, especially since the crisis has proved that many industries only worked when fueled by subsidies. Exports seem to be the country’s only hope and politicians are too busy fighting to make productivity, R&D investment or education a priority.
VALENCIA | By Laura Garsando, Mètode magazine | Lorenzo Sanchis works at UMDO (Unit of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices) of the Institute for Materials Science (University of Valencia) and has coordinated the research group that developed the first acoustic invisibility cloak that works on three-dimensional objects.