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Spain wants to slow deficit reduction

Spain plans to cut its government deficit this year and next at a slower pace than originally agreed with the European Commission as it struggles to bring its public debt in line with Brussels' demand

Spain

Spain's acting Industry Minister resigns

Jose Manuel Soria's name has been linked to revelations in the Panama Papers

Spain

Apartment building collapse in Tenerife

A residential building collapsed in the Canary Island of Tenerife on Thursday (April 14) injuring at least three people and prompting evacuation of

France

Spanish police arrest suspected Paris supermarket gunman 'arms supplier'

Spanish police have arrested a French man suspected of supplying weapons used by an Islamist militant in an attack on a Paris supermarket . Two other

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France

Spain: police arrest French 'arms supplier' to Paris supermarket gunman

Spanish police have arrested a French man suspected of supplying weapons to the Islamist militant who attacked a Paris supermarket. The siege in

Sport

Klopp Kops a draw in Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund welcomed back former boss Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool took on Dortmund in the quarter-final of the Europa League. DESCANSO: Dortmund

Economy

Wine war: French ambassador summoned over Spanish truck attacks

Spain’s Foreign Ministry has summoned France’s ambassador after French farmers hijacked Spanish trucks at the border and drained their cargo of wine

Spain

Is Spain really abandoning its siestas?

The world thought it hilarious: ‘Spain scraps siestas’ screamed the headlines after Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy proposed reducing working hours and

Economy

Spain looks to turn back the clock and end the siesta

Spain’s acting prime minister has unveiled plans to do-away with the siesta, the country’s traditional afternoon nap time. Mariano Rajoy wants to cut

Business Series

Santander to close hundreds of Spanish branches

Santander is to close around 450 smaller branches in its home country Spain this year, partly because of the shift to internet banking but also to cut costs.

Europe News

Road deaths in Spain, Portugal and Greece down sharply

Across the bloc, the number of people killed has fallen by 15 percent since 2010, but in Spain, Portugal and Greece that number is down around a third.

United Kingdom

How Spanish trolls tried to sink a British boat competition

Spain

Spain's Socialist and Podemos parties set to start coalition talks

Can the leaders of Spain’s Socialist Party and anti-austerity newcomer Podemos finally end the country’s political stalemate? They are set to start

Sport

Adios Gary Neville sacked by Valencia

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has been sacked as manager of Valencia after four months in charge.

Sport

Quintana wins Volta a Catalunya title

Nairo Quintana of the Movistar team won the overall title at the Volta a Catalunya on Sunday following the hilly 136 kilometre seventh and final

Sport

Volta a Catalunya: De Gendt wins stage four as Quintana takes overall race lead

Thomas de Gendt celebrate a solo victory on stage 4 of the Volta a Catalunya on Thursday. The Belgian was part of an early break in the day’s action

Spain

Spanish left tries to avoid fresh elections with talks next week

The leader of the Spanish socialists, Pedro Sanchez, and the leader of Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, have agreed to meet next Wednesday in order to start

Sport

Bouhani wins again as peloton pays respects to Brussels

Stage 2 of the Tour of Catalonia began with a minutes silence for the victims of the Brussels bombings. Belgium is at the very heart of the cycling

World News

Italy mourns loss of seven students in fatal bus crash in Spain

Italy is mourning the loss of seven of its students who were among the 13 victims who died in Sunday’s bus crash in north east Spain. All were young

Spain

7 Italians and 2 Germans among victims of Spanish bus crash

Seven Italians and two Germans are confirmed to have died in Sunday’s Spanish bus crash. The victims, all young female exchange students, also