A Catalan newspaper revealed on Thursday that Gabon’s President Omar Bongo was being treated for cancer in a Spanish hospital. Today, the entourage of Africa's longest-serving president carefully filters information about his state of health.
France 24 reports from a Madrid suburb and talks to a family of which every member is unemployed. There are more than one million such households in Spain.
For the first time in 30 years, Spain’s Basque regional parliament will put itself in the hands of a Socialist head of government who is not part of the nationalist movement. The Spanish press regards this as an “historic” moment.
In Andalucia, unemployment stands at 21 percent so for the first time for decades, Spaniards are back in the fields taking on seasonal work such as picking strawberries. But it's Spain's immigrants that are the victims of this recent trend.
In Spain, the economic crisis has caused a boom in the black market. FRANCE 24's reporters took a look around a construction district south of Madrid, where workers are forced into illegal contracts to find some work.
The Internet has become the latest place in Spain in which to find funds when traditional banks won't grant loans. Web communities are emerging and revealing new solidarities in a country deeply hit by the financial crisis.
Spain's ruling Socialists face their first electoral test on Sunday since the nation plunged into recession. The Basque region is one of the wealthiest but the economic crisis has become the population’s biggest concern, even ahead of terrorism.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialists are competing for a historic victory in Basque regional elections, as polls show they are running neck-in-neck with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), in power since 1980.
Ceramics and earthenware count among Portugal's most celebrated industries. But with demand from the United States slowing sharply amid the growing financial crisis, established manufacturers are having to file for bankruptcy.
As unemployment escalates in Spain, the Zapatero government is offering non-EU immigrants the chance to cash in their unemployment benefits. In exchange, they must leave the country and agree not to return for at least three years.
