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Spanish PM hit by new corruption allegations - 10 July 2013 - News

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy may take a pounding from fresh corruption allegations against his centre-right People's Party but the government is strong enough to ride the storm, analysts and sources say.

Hollande: Conditions ‘not there yet’ for EU budget deal - 04 February 2013 - News

President François Hollande said yesterday (3 February) that France was keen to agree the European Union's 2014-2020 budget at a summit in Brussels later this week, but there was still much work to be done.

Secret payments scandal weighs on Spanish PM Rajoy - 31 January 2013 - News

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Spain's ruling People's Party denied today (31 January) that the party passed payments from business donors secretly to the premier and other party leaders after a newspaper published what it said were unofficial party accounts.

Brussels eases grip on Spanish austerity amid social unrest - 15 November 2012 - News

Spain has taken effective action to address its budget deficits in 2012 and 2013, Brussels said, signalling there will be no further escalation of disciplinary budget steps against Madrid, where anti-austerity marches turned violent yesterday (14 November).

Germany tells Spain to hold off bailout request - 02 October 2012 - News

Spain is ready to request a eurozone bailout for its public finances as early as next weekend but Germany has signalled that it should hold off, European officials said yesterday (1 October).

ECB's Draghi presents eurozone rescue plan - 06 September 2012 - Video

Flurry of high-level meetings marks start of EU political season - 29 August 2012 - News

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy interrupted his holiday in Seville yesterday (28 August) to visit Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid, while Commission President José Manuel Barroso received Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. A flurry of other upcoming meetings marks the beginning of a heated season.

Only a political suicide or national unity government can save Spain and the euro - 23 July 2012 - Opinion

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, his voters are being bled dry on all sides. At the same time, an impatient EU is piling on the pressure to inflict even more pain at speed. It is a difficult balancing act for Rajoy, who needs his voters to believe that he has their best interests at heart under relentless pressure from the markets and the EU, writes Andy Langenkamp.

Spain joins ‘the Group of Debt’ - 11 June 2012 - News

Madrid has secured €100 billion to rescue its banks in an attempt to pre-empt the threat of a bank run if the debt crisis in another troubled country, Greece, flares again. But angry Spaniards accused Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of ill-timed triumphalism and an inappropriate trip to Poland to watch Spain compete in the Euro 2012.

EU core countries to hold crisis mini-summit - 29 May 2012 - News

The leaders of France, Germany, Spain and Italy will meet in Rome after the June Greek election to discuss the eurozone crisis, the Italian press reports, as talk of Greece leaving the single currency gain momentum.

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