EU presidency: the trouble with Spain…
He’s EU president, he’s Mr. Bean. Just a few days into the six month rotating presidency of the EU, hackers attacked the Spanish prime minister’s image. And Zapatero has already had to take a step back after harsh criticism on his proposed sanctions against EU states with deficient economic policies.That’s rich, coming from a country where a generation of people earning 1000 euros a month has coined the term ‘mileuristas’! No wonder Iberian cleverclogs are part of the brain drain towards other EU countries…
Young Spaniards escape crisis by moving around in Europe
Three out of ten Spaniards under 25 are unemployed. This group is the hardest hit by the crisis and has the highest unemployment rate in the EU (35.4%). Unfair dismissals, businesses closing, poor wages and working conditions... Young Europeans and specifically the Spaniards, don’t have it easy, but they are facing up to it. Those that can, leave their country in search of a more promising future in Europe, seeing this adventure as a long-term investment
Migrants keep coming to Seville, Spain and the rest of Europe
But their rights as workers and humans are at stake, while the status of illegal or legal are being sorted out
cities, immigration, discrimination, illegal immigrants, trade unions, employment, integration, law, best of cafebabel.com, seville
Spain's damaged and wasteful economy, where people work little
The time has come for a self-indulgent Spain to face up to a critical self-evaluation and structural reforms
Spain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ in Malaga
Spain lives with the feeling that economic crisis is hot on its heels. This is the prefect occasion to redefine its growth model that is currently based in tourism and construction
The 1, 000 Euros a month club
Europe’s youth follow the cog: university, a first job, building a future. But Seville’s brood of ‘1000-Euro-a-month-ers’ are finding even that hard
