As custom dictates, Spain's new leader heads to Morocco on his first official trip abroad. There are some difficult topics to be tackled, but Mariano Rajoy wants to warm Madrid's relations with Rabat. Also, a year after the Jasmine revolution we take a look at some of the hurdles that Tunisia’s new government has to overcome. Finally, it's football fever as Tunisia and Libya hope to do themselves proud in the Africa Cup of Nations.
The downgrade of nine European nations may be a call to action, but François Picard’s panel is at odds over the intentions of "Anglo-Saxon rating agencies" and over whether Europeans can actually initiate bold reform with a French presidential election campaign underway.
The downgrade of nine European nations may be a call to action, but François Picard’s panel is at odds over the intentions of "Anglo-Saxon rating agencies" and over whether Europeans can actually initiate bold reform with a French presidential election campaign underway.
Can Mariano Rajoy save Spain's economy? His centre-right Popular Party won a landslide victory in Sunday's elections, but the hardest part is yet to come. With sky-high unemployment and a gaping public deficit, Spain's economy is in bad shape, and Rajoy has a tough road ahead if he is to calm feverish debt markets.
Greece, Italy, Ireland and now Spain are among those countries who have seen their governments change hands as the debt crisis wreaks havoc across the continent. Is anyone capable of coping with a crisis of this scope? In the UK, an employment scheme is getting job-seekers to work 30 hours a week for free, just to keep their unemployment benefits. Finally, find out why Spain has been left with over half a million empty houses.
After the victory cheers following Sunday's parliamentary election, prime minister-elect Mariano Rajoy is being pressed to flesh out the details of his plan to get Spain’s ailing economy back on track.
Spain's election gives a new right-wing government a mandate for austerity. Egypt is once again in the throes of violence and uncertainty as a vote beckons. And in Libya, is justice possible for Saif al-Islam? That's the focus for this press review, Monday 21st November 2011.
France's right-wing paper Le Figaro is overjoyed at the landslide for the Spanish right in general elections, while the left-wing Libération skips the historic Socialist defeat across the border to concentrate on President Nicolas Sarkozy who, it argues, faces "a very personal dilemma". That's the focus for this look at what the French papers are saying, Monday 21st November 2011.
Spain’s opposition Popular Party declared victory in Sunday’s general election with a landslide win led by party chief and future prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. The ruling Socialist party conceded defeat with just a third of the vote.
With more than 80 percent of the votes counted, Spain’s centre-right Popular Party has won the biggest ever election victory in its history in Sunday’s general election, with the ruling Socialist party conceding defeat late Sunday.
