Catalonia’s immigrants face lonely road ahead
The Spanish government's cuts have included slashing the funds aimed at easing integration of immigrants.
View ArticleA victory for Hollande, a victory for Spain
Conservative Mariano Rajoy will welcome the arrival of the French Socialist in power, given the unlikely deficit targets the Spanish economy is expected to meet.
View ArticleRajoy’s labyrinth
As economic disaster threatens to engulf Spain, the country’s prime minister faces his greatest challenge. But while Mariano Rajoy seems convinced about the measures needed to battle the ongoing debt...
View ArticleSpain’s true crisis isn’t economic, it’s institutional
The ongoing economic slump has helped erode the credibility of Spain’s banks, politicians, judiciary and royalty. The much-vaunted Transition to democracy needs to be updated.
View ArticleA dilemma for Spain’s Socialists
Opposition leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba is caught between offering a united front with the government and ripping its policies to shreds.
View ArticleMalcolm Tucker meets Mariano Rajoy
The solution to the Spanish government's PR problems...?
View ArticleMariano Rajoy
To his supporters he’s calm, considered, strategic and resilient. But to his critics – whose ranks have swelled this year – Spain’s prime minister is hesitant, rigid, poorly advised and uncharismatic.
View ArticleChoosing the Iberians of 2012
Iberosphere has drawn up its annual list of people of the year in Spain and Portugal. This is how we went about it…
View ArticleRajoy’s difficult year
The Spanish prime minister was facing a stiff challenge when he took power 12 months ago. So far, the benefits of his peculiar approach to governing are hard to see.
View ArticleLadies and gentlemen, the next prime minister of Spain…?
María Dolores de Cospedal has tightened her grip on the Popular Party, and is the most likely person to succeed Mariano Rajoy if he doesn’t stand for a second term as prime minister in 2015.
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