Drop in government schoolbook subsidies sees parents scramble for shared solutions
Central budget for grants slashed by 80 percent in just two years
Government’s reforms to cut pension spending by €33 billion
Purchasing power of retirees would be hit throughout 10-year period as changes are phased in
Where is Chris Horner?
Vuelta winner leads anti-doping authorities a merry dance around the capital
Madrid region set aside 53 million euros in case hospital privatization was blocked
Regional High Court has frozen plans to sell off six healthcare centers after huge protest movement by staff
Pause in teachers’ protest allows Mexico to celebrate its independence
Demonstrators are dislodged from the Zócalo so that “grito” ceremony can take place
Catalonia and Spain
The democratic solution has to come from a structured dialogue leading to negotiation
Cannabis store blast puts four in the hospital with serious burns
Madrid investigators say explosion occurred during marijuana extraction process in cramped basement
Brazil’s largest corruption case could be reopened if top court grants appeal
Twelve convicted former officials of Lula da Silva’s government could get new trials
Does Spain get a zero in oratory?
The techniques behind successful speechmaking need to be studied and practiced Experts note that Spaniards make few oral presentations at school
Experts see positive but minimal economic growth in third quarter
Pace of the recovery next year too weak to create jobs
No luck in paradise
Thousands of Spaniards are making the move to Germany in search of work, attracted by reports of huge labor shortages in the country But once there, they are having to face some harsh realities
Woman who began the Catalan human chain believes the work is just beginning
Meet Carme Forcadell, the academic who is heading up the civil society platform entrusted with the region’s drive toward “the right to decide”
Catalonia would lose European status if it secedes from Spain: EC vice president
Commissioner Almunia urges Mas and Rajoy to hold face-to-face talks with “cool heads”
“The layoff fraud scandal not only pains me, but it is embarrassing”
New Andalusia premier Susana Díaz faces up to the Socialist Party’s checkered past in the region it has ruled for three decades
Negotiate, but what?
Spain’s government must do more than merely point out that any Catalan referendum would be unlawful
Bildu wants to mimic Catalan sovereignty strategy in Basque Country
Radical grouping wants parties and civil society to join push for independence referendum