Anti-credit crunch plans to take effect soon says Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s president announced in Brussels yesterday that he hopes to see the first effects of Europe-wide anti-credit crunch plans by the end of this month.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero says the fight against the global recession has become the central focus of the European Union.

Although Zapatero says Spain’s financial situation continues [...]

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Real Madrid president Calderon steps down today

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon will step down on Friday following newspaper allegations of irregularities at the club’s general assembly last month, Spanish media reported on Thursday.
The reports said Calderon, who has denied any wrongdoing, was pressured into resigning by several members of the Real management board and will be replaced by Vicente Boluda, one [...]

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Car sales in Spain plunge to 15-year low

Car sales in Spain fell by almost 50 per cent last month in another sign that the country’s economy is hurtling further downward.
Anfac, the car trade association, said that 63,068 vehicles were sold in November – a decrease of 49.6 per cent from the 125,206 sold in November last year. This was the biggest year-on-year [...]

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Hats Off To The Economist’s Article

I’ve got to take my hat off to The Economist for publishing an excellent article about Catalonia called “The party’s over” last week. It has caused great concern here in Catalonia and there’s been much calling for public apologies, articles being banned etc etc.
In my opinion the article was very well written and touched a [...]

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More Spanish gripes this week with Alonso and company

I’m a bit fed up this week with Alonso’s gripes. He’s thrown his rattle out of his pram again and says that if he can help anyone win the formula 1 drivers’ championship he’ll help Massa. More sour grapes from the little Spaniard I’m afraid – could you ever imagine Massa and Alonso in the [...]

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Bellvitge murderer gets 83 years

Pedro Jiménez has been sentenced to serve 83 years in jail for raping and murdering two trainee female police officers at a flat in the Bellvitge district of L’Hospitalet in October 2004.
Described by psychologists as a ‘psycopath’, Jiménez was also convicted of breaking and entering, robbery with violence, arson and profaning the corpses, and has [...]

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Alliance & Leicester bought by Santander

The Spanish armada has arrived on Britain’s high street, and this time we’re cheering.
In a deft £1.26bn deal, Spain’s largest bank has bagged Alliance & Leicester, a deal likely to be cheered not only by most shareholders in the UK’s sixth-largest bank, but by embattled investors right across the banking sector.
With British house prices falling, [...]

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