• And as you can see the desired, target, interest rates are very different for the peripheral countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the so called PIGS) than they are for the core countries (Belgium Holland, Germany, France etc).

    FORBES: The Inevitable Failure of the Euro

  • In Spain they called themselves the "indignants" but no-one knows what this generation will do with their anger.

    BBC: Greece crisis: Revolution in the offing?

  • Plus the U.K. banks have another advantage in these skittish times: they are not as heavily exposed to the debt of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, the so-called PIIGS. In the banking sector, he likes Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered.

    FORBES: Buy British

  • Mr de Guindos is in the city to sell foreign investors on the so-called "bad bank", where Spain will park the poor property assets that are weighing down its lenders.

    BBC: Spain does not need a bailout - Luis de Guindos

  • In his native Spain, Chema Madoz is called "the poet photographer".

    BBC: What If? Visions of the future

  • Mr Pujol says that an independent Catalonia - often called the "Germany of Spain", for its high GDP and industrial base - could play a role in turning around the image north Europe has of southern Europe.

    BBC: Catalan leaders seek independence vote, legal or not

  • While the leader of Spain's main opposition party, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has called for the prime minister to resign, as things stand that looks unlikely.

    BBC: Q&A: Spain's opposition tells PM to go

  • The leader of Spain's main opposition party, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, has called for the prime minister to resign, but the BBC's Tom Burridge in Madrid says that as things stand, that looks unlikely.

    BBC: Spain's PM Mariano Rajoy pledges to battle on

  • Spain's Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday called the list a "great step forward" because it included several organisations linked to ETA, which has claimed the killings of 800 people in a 33-year shooting and bombing campaign to secure independence for Spain's northern Basque region.

    CNN: EU names terror groups

  • Many banks on the continent - in so called "core" economies like France as well as Spain, Portugal etc - cannot really borrow on the interbank market at all at the moment.

    BBC: Inconvenient truths about Libor

  • He suggests countries like Spain and Ireland should try and ape the so-called active labor market intervention used by Norway, in which the state funds not only unemployment benefits but also training and job searches.

    FORBES: European Economy

  • Investors fear that the state will be called on to recapitalise Spain's banks.

    ECONOMIST: Return of the euro crisis

  • Mr Ancram also called on the government to immediately suspend talks over joint sovereignty with Spain for Gibraltar.

    BBC: Tories back Blair on Iraq

  • Of the heavily-indebted so-called PIIGS (Portugal, the Irish Republic, Italy, Greece and Spain) countries, Irish shares fared best.

    BBC: World stock markets end a tumultous year well down

  • When it last took in poor countries (Spain and Portugal in 1986), the European Community, as it was then called, was not a single market for goods, services, labour and capital.

    ECONOMIST: Unfinished business | The

  • While Greece dominates headlines with a 12.7% budget deficit and a 300 billion euro debt (as of early March 2010), the rest of the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain) wallow in high debt levels as well, triggering further alarm about the future of the European Union.

    FORBES: French Finance Minister Lagarde On The PIIGS

  • The jury heard that the "conspirators" also ran a debt scam in which they cold-called people from Spain.

    BBC: Five accused over escort site scam

  • As the shock wore off, their leaders called for an immediate break in relations with Britain and Spain.

    ECONOMIST: Chile and Pinochet

  • The election result has also increased the likelihood that the ECB will be called on to activate its as-yet-untested OMT program to help Spain, Italy or both.

    WSJ: Italian Uncertainty Rekindles Euro-Crisis Fears

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