Thousands of Spaniards in the depressed southern region of Andalusia are queueing up to play the role of
slaves in film-maker Ridley Scott's Biblical epic "Exodus", hoping for a way out of unemployment.
The IMF told Spain on Friday it faces five more years with an unemployment rate topping 25 percent as it pressed Madrid to enact new reforms including measures to help firms slash wages instead of axing staff.
Spain's unemployment rate fell for the fifth month in a row in June, but most of the new jobs created are only temporary, figures released on Friday by Spain's Employment Ministry show.
Spain's unemployment rate fell for the first time in two years to 26.26 percent in the second quarter, official data showed on Thursday, a day after the central bank said the recession-hit country seemed close to a recovery.
Barcelona-based economist and "thinking machine" Edward Hugh believes rumours of the end of Spain's crisis are greatly exaggerated. In this interview, he tells us why.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned on Tuesday that Spain's unemployment level won't be coming down in the next 18 months.
For years, Antonio Sanchez worked as a carpenter, sawing and planing wooden furniture for houses that sprang up
along the Andalusian coast in Spain's construction boom.
Spain's jobless line grew shorter again in June, with 127,248 leaving the queue in what was the fourth consecutive month of falling unemployment in the country. But the number of people out of work is still up 3.22 percent on a year ago.
"Conservative" and "cautious" Spanish companies are the least likely to increase their workforce in 2013, according to a global survey of business expectations.
The head of labour relations for Spain's biggest employers' association, the CEOE, has come under fire after attacking the four day travel entitlement that employees receive in the event of the death of an immediate family member by saying 'people don't travel in stagecoaches'.
Spain is emerging from its financial crisis and may be heading for a "turning point" thanks to strengthened public finances, having narrowly avoided a full-scale bailout in 2012, Budget Minister Cristóbal Montoro said on Monday.
Almost two thirds of Spaniards would accept lower wages in return for greater job security, more than any other country in Europe and second only to India in global times.
Thousands of people protested in Madrid on Sunday against austerity policies and record high unemployment, urging Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.
Spain, Italy, France and Germany sent their economy and labour ministers to Rome on Friday to look at ways to bring down the high levels of youth unemployment blighting the lives of millions across Europe.
The regional government of Catalonia said on Thursday it will draw up a list of schoolchildren suffering from severe food shortages to target them for aid as it deals with the effects of Spain's economic downturn.
Nearly half of all Spaniards are just managing to get by financially while 25 percent are struggling to survive from one pay cheque to the next, key research released on Monday shows.
Spain's recession will continue in the second quarter although the unemployment rate, already at a record high, will rise at a slower pace, the Bank of Spain said Wednesday.
A united Spain is prepared for the fight for Madrid to win the right to host the 2020 Olympic Games, the bid's president Alejandro Blanco told AFP in an interview.
A Benidorm hotel chain will pay for the holiday accommodation of fifty Spanish families who have been badly affected by the crisis as a gesture of 'social responsibility'.
Thousands of striking students and teachers protested across Spain on Thursday against spending cuts they say are destroying the country's public education system.
Spain’s international reputation has taken quite a battering since the country’s economic problems began five years ago but the Spanish government is fighting back in a bid to restore the nation's prestige.
Italy's new premier on Monday used a joint press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to urge the European Union to act quickly to tackle the problem of high youth unemployment.
