Moody’s ratings agency have downgraded Spanish banks on Friday, as talk mounts of a financial meltdown in Europe. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.
Nearly one out of four working-age Spaniards is without a job. And as The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Spain, people in even more dire straits are scavenging for food.
French President-elect Francois Hollande is to start work on forming a new government, after telling supporters his victory gave hope of an end to austerity.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande are making their final pitch for votes in one of the most dramatic elections in recent French history. Opinion polls suggest the incumbent president has cut Hollande’s lead slightly but is still trailing his Socialist challenger.
Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high, official figures have shown, and figures due out on Monday are expected to confirm that Spain has fallen back into recession.
Gerry Hadden – It began months ago, but now calls across Europe for less austerity and more growth are, well, growing. Growing really loud [...]
King Juan Carlos has apologized to the Spanish people after going on a hunting trip in Africa while his country was in the midst of an economic crisis. It was widely reported that he had been hunting elephants, which the royal house has neither confirmed nor denied.
Watch out Mickey Mouse, here comes Napoleon Land. Well, at least some French entrepreneurs are hoping a theme park based Napoleon Bonaparte will be more popular than Euro Disney. The World’s Gerry Hadden has our story from Montereau.
France’s presidential campaign officially kicked off this week. President Nicolas Sarkozy is running for a second term. But with the economy the primary issue among French voters, it looks like Sarkozy may have a hard time winning re-election, even when he stresses security issues.
A tiny Spanish town has a plan for digging out of debt: the mayor proposed growing marijuana.
As a journalist, how do you know when an interviewee is blowing you off? Inventing urgent, last minute engagements that “lamentably” require canceling his or her engagement with you? Sometimes it’s obvious. One day recently it seemed obvious. Now I’m not so sure [...]
Last year, some Spanish farmers were shocked to find their tax bills increase by as much as 30 thousand percent. Some got rich as housing prices skyrocketed. Others are now faced with losing their land.
Iceland’s former prime minister, Geir Haarde, went on trial Monday. He’s accused of failing to protect his country’s economy from the global economic meltdown of 2008. The World’s Gerry Hadden has the latest on the story.
Color-blind artist, Neil Harbisson, uses sounds to see colors. He’s able to do this using a a high-tech headset designed specifically for him.
The ink is not yet dry on the Greek rescue deal and the gloom has already returned. How can it be that after months of arduous, often acrimonious brinkmanship no one thinks this latest accord is good enough? [...]
