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Spain reports third eviction-linked suicide in less than a month
The man in Cordoba, southern Spain, threw himself from a window just one day after the government announced an emergency halt to mortgage-related expulsions. The apartment was owned by the man’s family who wanted to expel him, a government official for the Andalusia region said. It was unclear whether his…
Spain halts evictions of vulnerable homeowners
Spain announced Thursday a two-year halt to evictions of the most vulnerable home owners as a public outcry mounted over suicides linked to desperate people facing expulsion. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s right-leaning government said it agreed on the moratorium “for humanitarian reasons” and the new measure was restricted to those…
Spain upholds same sex marriage after challenge
Spain’s constitutional court upheld Tuesday a 2005 law allowing homosexual marriage and adoption after an appeal, a court official said. Spain’s ruling conservative Popular Party had appealed the law, passed seven years ago by a Socialist government. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his party objected to use of the word…
Spanish unemployment tops 25 percent
Spain announced Friday that its unemployment rate broke the 25-percent barrier for the first time as austerity cuts squeezed the recession-struck economy. Tens of thousands of jobs were destroyed in the third quarter, even as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government raised taxes, cut spending and pondered whether to snatch a…
Geologists: Groundwater extraction caused earthquake in Spain
Massive extraction of groundwater helped unleash an earthquake in southeastern Spain last year that killed nine people, injured at least 100 and left thousands homeless, geologists said on Sunday. The finding adds a powerful piece of evidence to theories that some earthquakes are human-induced, they said. Seismologists were surprised by…
Spanish unions call general strike November 14
Spain’s labour unions Friday called a general strike for November 14, the second such blanket action this year against the government’s biting austerity measures. The UGT and CCOO unions said they had approved the multi-sector strike as part of a broader day of action called by the European Trade Union…
Stiglitz: Greece and Spain are ‘in depression’
Greece and Spain are in “depression, not recession”, Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Wednesday, blaming tough austerity measures for their downward economic spiral. Stiglitz also maintained that the International Monetary Fund was “a little too optimistic” in its forecast last week that the eurozone economy would shrink by…
Chinese mafia suspects appear in Spanish court
Several suspects arrested in Spain as part of a probe into Chinese gangs suspected of laundering tens of millions of euros each year appeared in court for questioning Wednesday. Ten of the over 80 people detained in raids carried out on Tuesday across Spain arrived at the central Madrid court…
Thousands protest in Spain, Portugal against austerity cuts
Thousands of protesters in Portugal and Spain marched Saturday in fresh protests against the austerity measures their governments have imposed to tackle their debt crisis. Portuguese demonstrators staged marches that took on a festive air in the capital Lisbon and a number of other cities. In Lisbon, actors, singers, singers…
Spain provided a record number of organ donations in 2011
Spain provided a record number of donors of bodily organs in 2011 as the number of transplants in Europe rose, the health ministry said Wednesday. In Spain there were 35 donors per million inhabitants, while the number of transplants performed in Europe passed 30,000 for the first time, it said.…
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