Spanish politics
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Europe ducks hard call on budget rules
Spain and Portugal could face EU sanctions over national budgets
Der Streit ums Sparen kommt mit Wucht zurück
Spain’s happy indignants
Spain and Portugal at risk of EU sanctions over national budgets
Spain’s foreign minister: EU-Turkey deal is ‘botched job’
Catalan exit plan
In the past, moderates have dominated Barcelona’s testy relations with Madrid. This time, it could escalate.
Podemos plots Socialists’ ‘submission or suicide’
Spain heads to new ballots with the Socialists facing an enlarged anti-austerity alliance on their left.
Podemos members reject Socialist-Ciudadanos coalition
Internal vote shows 92 percent back Pablo Iglesias’ proposed leftist coalition.
Spain counts cost of inevitable new elections
Spain’s bickering politicians can’t even agree on how to keep campaign costs down.
Spanish minister quits over Panama Papers leaks
The conservative politician had business links in the Bahamas and Jersey.
Podemos members vote on Spanish coalition deal
If no deal is reached by May 2, parliament will be dissolved and new elections held on June 26.
Catalan leader rules out independence during mandate
Carles Puigdemont says now is not the time to break away from Spain.
Sánchez to Tsipras: I need a favor
Spanish Socialist leader asks for Greek PM’s help getting Podemos to sign up to a coalition deal.
Spain’s Sánchez wants EU-Turkey ‘pact of shame’ altered
Internal row paralyzes Spanish left
Mass resignations in Madrid put pressure on national leadership.
3 ways Spain could avoid fresh elections
The Socialist leader failed in his bid to become prime minister. So what happens next?
Spanish Socialists fail in bid for power
Rivals reject Pedro Sánchez’s first attempt to become prime minister.
Mariano Rajoy slams ‘fictitious’ Socialist bid for power
Acting prime minister says Socialist leader has no chance of forming a government.
Not a misprint: Spanish business wants Socialist rule
In this protracted political drama, employers like anyone but Podemos.
Spain’s conservatives, left should make way for Sánchez — poll
The PP and Podemos should help end Spain’s political stalemate, according to a new survey.
Rajoy: Socialists’ coalition deal is not enough
Spanish Socialists strike coalition deal
Ciudadanos gets its way on constitutional reform in exchange for joining coalition.
PP corruption undermines Rajoy’s survival strategy
Party troubles in Valencia and Madrid endanger the PM’s dwindling hopes of a second term.
Rajoy uses budget deal as bargaining chip
Spanish PM seeks backing from rivals to stay in power.
Poll: Most Spaniards want Socialist, Ciudadanos coalition
A PSOE government on its own gathered 43 percent support.
Spanish poll puts Podemos ahead of Socialists
New poll highlights problems facing Socialists in forming a new government.