Buried in the Telegraph's Business Section again (it's a numbers story, see) is Armageddon's report on predictions that Spain is sliding into an economic depression. One forecast is that Spain's unemployment will peak at 25%. There's a huge overhang of unsold properties. He repeats his theme that the fixed parity of the euro will make it harder for Spain to claw its way ou...

Spain wants to strengthen the economic powers of the European Union when it takes over the rolling presidency of the 27-member club next January, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday.

Spain's EU presidency comes at a complicated time for the eurozone's fourth-largest economy:it wants to show that it can take the lead in managing the EU's economic recovery even as its own country grapples with its worst recession in more than 50 years

Spain’s inflation (as measured by the EU HICP methodology) was around 1.5% (year on year) in December 2008, according to the flash estimate issued by the stats office (INE) earlier this week. This number only offers us an initial glimpse of the final HICP reading, but, if confirmed, it will mean Spain’s annual rate of

Spain has adopted overly optimistic economic growth assumptions and runs the risk of its public pension system destabilising government finances, European Union officials have concluded

When Spain takes over the European Union's six-month presidency from Sweden on January 1, it will inherit much more than the usual catalogue of economic and foreign policy challenges

Immigrants in Spain who lose their jobs would be offered lump sum payments to return home as part of a package of planned reforms aimed at softening the impact on the labour market of the country’s economic downturn.

Giles Paxman, British ambassador to Spain, has blogged about Nick Clegg’s visit to Spain last week. While emphasising Britain’s interest in the Eurozone’s economic success, the Deputy Prime Minister showed he’s economising too: The top priority, obviously, is tackling the problems with our public finances. Nick Clegg made the point strongly, in his long meeting with Prime

Any remaining hopes that Europe would avoid a sharp economic downturn were finally dashed after the European Commission forecast recessions this year in Germany, the UK and Spain – with France and Italy faring little better

Tough times for Spain - it's an economic basket-case and that's official! "Spain today became the third euro zone country since Friday to be warned by Standard & Poor's rating agency that its credit rating is under threat from the global credit crisis that continues to wreak havoc in Europe. Just as in the case of Ireland and Greece last Friday, S&P said Spain faces ...