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September 28th, 2010
Forced to impose unpopular measures to fix the economy, Spain's Socialist government faces a general strike tomorrow amid union anger over what they see as a policy U-turn. But many view the government's tough labour reforms and belt-tightening measures as inevitable, and even necessary, and a low turnout is expected.
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August 16th, 2010
Spain's prime minister has called off a meeting planned for Wednesday with leading firms in the country's struggling construction sector and no new date has been set, a government spokesman said on Monday. "The meeting has been postponed indefinitely,"
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July 2nd, 2010
The Spanish Secretary of State for Social Security, Octavio Granado, has declared that the data released today relating to the number of registered unemployed people in June, which has dropped below 4 million for the first time since the start of the year, confirms that the job market "has passed" ...
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June 2nd, 2010
The Ministry of Labour and Immigration announced today that the number of people registered as unemployed in Spain fell by 76,223 in May, bringing the jobless total down to 4,066,202. This is the second consecutive monthly decline,
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May 7th, 2010
According to estimates by the Bank of Spain, in its economic bulletin published today, the Spanish economy has technically come out of recession in the first quarter of 2010, after growing by 0.1% over the previous quarter, although GDP continues to fall on-year by 1.3%. With this slight growth, the Spanish ...
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May 5th, 2010
The Prime Minister, José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero and the opposition leader, Mariano Rajoy, held a legislature meeting in the Palacio de la Moncloa today which ended after two hours and fifteen minutes of conversation. The two party leaders agreed on the 'sound' restructuring of the Spanish financial sector and accelerating ...
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April 27th, 2010
According to the Labour Force Survey (EPA) that the National Statistics Institute (INE) accidentally posted on its website yesterday (final figures will not be made public until Friday), unemployment has increased by 286,200 in the first quarter of 2010, bringing the total number of unemployed to
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April 26th, 2010
The Minister for Housing, Beatriz Corredor, said today that according to the latest price data and construction activity, "the worst of the housing adjustment is over" and Spain has entered a "phase of stability." Corredor was speaking during the Low Cost Real Estate Exhibition,
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April 12th, 2010
The Spanish government has today approved a package of 26 anti-crisis measures covering six main sectors that they hope will improve the recovery and tackle unemployment. The six sectors involve housing rehabilitation, business stimulus, small and medium business support, greater safeguards for citizens and consumers,
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April 8th, 2010
In a study, titled 'Marriage and social change in Spain', Professor of Sociology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Juan Ignacio Martinez Pastor, has revealed that the number of Spanish people who have opted to remain single is growing. To produce the study, recently published
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