20/11/2011 | Argentina

CFK calls Rajoy, congratulates him for landslide victory

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called Spanish president-elect Mariano Rajoy and congratulated him for his victory after defeating the Socialist candidate by a landslide.

13/11/2012 | World

Anti-austerity strikes sweep southern Europe

31/01/2013 | World

Spain corruption scandal turns up heat on PM Rajoy

Spain's ruling People's Party denied that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and other leaders received payments from a slush fund after a newspaper published what it said were secret party accounts.

09/02/2013 | World

Spain PM publishes tax returns amid corruption scandal

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy made public his tax returns as he seeks to quell a corruption scandal that has gripped Spaniards and pushed up the country's borrowing costs.

10/09/2012 | World

Spain's PM expects 'reasonable' terms for any new aid

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he expected the European Union to set reasonable conditions for Spain if the country sought a bailout, saying he should not be told exactly where to trim public spending and would not cut pensions.

26/09/2012 | World

Spain to pass reforms, budget cuts with eye on aid

Spain will announce a series of economic reforms and a tight 2013 budget today, aiming to avoid the political humiliation of having Brussels impose conditions on a request for an international bailout.

12/11/2012 | World

Spain promises to spare needy from eviction after suicides

Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos promised today that no needy family will go homeless over mortgage arrears, responding to public fury at a homeowner's suicide as she was being evicted.

21/07/2012 | World

Spanish protests swell as jobless march on Madrid

Hundreds of unemployed Spaniards who had travelled hundreds of kilometres (miles) on foot to Madrid joined protests against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government and its handling of an economic crisis in the EU country.

29/07/2012 | World

Support for Spain's PM falls sharply after new austerity steps

Support for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fell sharply in July after his government announced a new round of deep spending cuts and tax hikes to fight the sovereign debt crisis, an opinion poll showed.

02/09/2012 | World

Rajoy says Spain already meets conditions for aid

Spain will consider seeking extra aid from Europe on top of a 100 billion rescue of its financial sector but does not see any need for new conditions, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in an interview published in European newspapers.

11/07/2012 | World

Spanish police clash with protesting miners

Police fired rubber bullets at protesting miners, injuring several people, during a demonstration against slashes in coal subsidies aimed at trimming the budget deficit of the euro zone's fourth largest economy.

13/07/2012 | World

Spanish workers block roads, rail in cuts protest

Spanish workers blocked streets and railways in Madrid in protests against new austerity measures they said hurt ordinary people more than the bankers and politicians they blame for the economic crisis.

17/07/2012 | World

Spain debt costs fall, key bond test awaits

Spain's borrowing costs fell, at the first sale of debt since the government announced a new austerity package, but not enough to suggest markets believe the country's finances are on a sustainable path with banking problems yet to be resolved.

09/05/2012 | World

Spain takes over Bankia to combat crisis

Spain took over Bankia, the country's fourth biggest lender trying to dispel concerns over the government's ability to clean up the financial sector four years after the banks were hit by a property market crash.

02/06/2012 | World

Spain wants euro zone fiscal authority

Spain proposed the set up a new fiscal authority in the euro zone which would control and harmonize national budgets and manage the European debts.

10/06/2012 | World

Sceptical Spaniards pour scorn on Rajoy over financial rescue

Confused and anxious Spaniards heaped scorn on Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy for portraying a 100 billion euro European rescue of the country's zombie lenders as a triumph, expressing scepticism about whether the plan will work.

16/04/2012 | World

YPF: Spain says Argentina's decision is 'discriminatory, arbitrary'

The Spanish government condemned Argentina’s announcement over the expropriation of YPF, calling it a “discriminatory” and “arbitrary” decision, and stated that it will adopt any measures deemed necessary to defend the interests of Repsol and every other Spanish company.

17/04/2012 | World

Rajoy: YPF seize 'damages all Latin America'

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said today the Argentina’s decision to takeover Spanish ran YPF oil company announced yesterday by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner “damages all Latin America.”

07/05/2012 | World

'Who can now trust a country that takes such decisions?,' Rajoy says over YPF

Spain’s President Mariano Rajoy considered that the expropriation of YPF oil and gas giant led by the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and backed by a large majority of the opposition blocs, has to do more with Argentina’s weakness than Spain’s current fragility.

21/12/2011 | World

Spain's Rajoy names cabinet of insiders

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy named a cabinet of mostly close advisers charged with reviving the sluggish economy while slashing spending to reassure investors the euro zone's No. 4 economy can stay solvent.

12/04/2012 | World

Rajoy: 'Spain will not be rescued, the alarm is unjustified'

Spain's government will pass health and education reforms later this month, in the country's latest measures to cut spending and meet difficult deficit reduction targets, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in Warsaw today.

15/04/2012 | World

Support for Spain's PM falls as austerity bites

Support for Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fell sharply in April after his government announced deep spending cuts and health and education reforms to fight the sovereign debt crisis, an opinion poll showed.

07/11/2011 | World

Socialist tries to gain points in Spanish election debate

Spain's Socialist candidate for prime minister, lagging badly in polls, tried to paint his conservative rival as a threat to the welfare state in a televised debate that was not expected to save the Socialists from a Nov. 20 election rout.

21/11/2011 | World

Spain new premier refuses to reveal plans

Prime Minister-elect Mariano Rajoy resisted pressure to disclose his plans for rescuing Spain from economic disaster, keeping anxious Spaniards and impatient investors on edge following his election triumph.

19/12/2011 | World

New Spanish leader pledges deep crisis cuts

Spain's incoming Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took aim at his country's economic woes Monday, promising deep spending cuts at all levels of government while offering tax breaks for companies.