Spain Economy

China will temporarily exempt citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia from needing visas when visiting the world's second-largest economy in a fresh move to spur post-pandemic tourism.

Spain's government has decided to spend EUR 12.25 billion (roughly Rs. 1,01,600 crore) on the semiconductor and microchip industry over the next five years, stated Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said on Tuesday. The plan, consisting mostly of European Union pandemic relief funds, will aim to boost Spain’s digital economy while meeting the demand...

In the main plaza of a wealthy suburban bastion of Spain's ruling Popular Party, volunteers hand out campaign pamphlets trumpeting economic gains ahead of Sunday's national election. Sipping an espresso nearby, toy company executive Miguel Sanchez describes the new Mercedes-Benz company car he'll soon get, thanks to rising sales for his firm follow...

Russia is no longer a superpower as its deteriorating economy is ranked "somewhere behind Spain", the White House today said and stressed that Moscow's influence is limited compared to the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Spain will probably hold national elections on December 20, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said today, leaving him less than four months to persuade Spaniards an economic recovery is good enough to warrant giving him a second term in office.

Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos today said the euro currency was irreversible and Greece should remain part of it even after the Greeks rejected the conditions of a new rescue package on Sunday.

Euro zone stocks remained well ahead of where they were at the start of the year before the European Central Bank (ECB) started printing money, and while government borrowing costs shot up in Europe's indebted southern countries - Italy, Spain and Portugal - they remained well below the heights scaled at the peak of the crisis in 2011/2012.

The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent to the combined economies of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, a global security report said on Wednesday.

The US dollar rallied on Tuesday after a string of healthy economic data boosted near-term rate hike prospects, while Greece's financial crisis and signs of growing opposition to austerity in Spain weighed further on the euro.

In the third straight month of falling unemployment, jobless claims declined in April by 118,923 to 4.33 million from March.

Spain's conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said today that he will seek re-election in this year's national polls, despite facing criticism after his party was trounced in a key regional vote last month.

Greece will not receive money from the Eurozone rescue fund until it implements all of its proposed reforms, the Spanish economy minister told the Financial Times on Sunday.

Ramon Holgado used to sleep outside in a cardboard box, but he is back on his feet this Christmas- guiding homeless-themed tours of the Barcelona streets he lived rough in.

An all-women theatre group has found an ingenious way around a sales tax hike that is crippling Spanish theatres- by selling pornography.

Spain attracted just over nine million foreign visitors in August, the highest ever figure for a single month, the government said on Monday, setting the country up for its best-ever year for tourism and giving a boost to the economy.

China will temporarily exempt citizens from France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Malaysia from needing visas when visiting the world's second-largest economy in a fresh move to spur post-pandemic tourism.

Spain's government has decided to spend EUR 12.25 billion (roughly Rs. 1,01,600 crore) on the semiconductor and microchip industry over the next five years, stated Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said on Tuesday. The plan, consisting mostly of European Union pandemic relief funds, will aim to boost Spain’s digital economy while meeting the demand...

In the main plaza of a wealthy suburban bastion of Spain's ruling Popular Party, volunteers hand out campaign pamphlets trumpeting economic gains ahead of Sunday's national election. Sipping an espresso nearby, toy company executive Miguel Sanchez describes the new Mercedes-Benz company car he'll soon get, thanks to rising sales for his firm follow...

Russia is no longer a superpower as its deteriorating economy is ranked "somewhere behind Spain", the White House today said and stressed that Moscow's influence is limited compared to the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Spain will probably hold national elections on December 20, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said today, leaving him less than four months to persuade Spaniards an economic recovery is good enough to warrant giving him a second term in office.

Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos today said the euro currency was irreversible and Greece should remain part of it even after the Greeks rejected the conditions of a new rescue package on Sunday.

Euro zone stocks remained well ahead of where they were at the start of the year before the European Central Bank (ECB) started printing money, and while government borrowing costs shot up in Europe's indebted southern countries - Italy, Spain and Portugal - they remained well below the heights scaled at the peak of the crisis in 2011/2012.

The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent to the combined economies of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, a global security report said on Wednesday.

The US dollar rallied on Tuesday after a string of healthy economic data boosted near-term rate hike prospects, while Greece's financial crisis and signs of growing opposition to austerity in Spain weighed further on the euro.

In the third straight month of falling unemployment, jobless claims declined in April by 118,923 to 4.33 million from March.

Spain's conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said today that he will seek re-election in this year's national polls, despite facing criticism after his party was trounced in a key regional vote last month.

Greece will not receive money from the Eurozone rescue fund until it implements all of its proposed reforms, the Spanish economy minister told the Financial Times on Sunday.

Ramon Holgado used to sleep outside in a cardboard box, but he is back on his feet this Christmas- guiding homeless-themed tours of the Barcelona streets he lived rough in.

An all-women theatre group has found an ingenious way around a sales tax hike that is crippling Spanish theatres- by selling pornography.

Spain attracted just over nine million foreign visitors in August, the highest ever figure for a single month, the government said on Monday, setting the country up for its best-ever year for tourism and giving a boost to the economy.