Public workers stage mass protest in Barcelona
January 28, 2012
| AFP
Thousands of police, teachers and hospital staff staged a mass protest march in Barcelona on Saturday in growing anger at spending cuts hitting key services in Spain's Catalonia ...
Spain's Catalonia bids farewell to bullfighting
September 25, 2011
| AP
Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bids farewell Sunday to the country's emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring. The...
Shock cuts hit Spanish healthcare
October 02, 2011
| AFP
Spain's crisis spending has cut a bit deeper with its richest region, Catalonia, suspending payments this past week to care homes and mental clinics because the money ran out....
Moody's warns on deficit in Spanish regions
June 06, 2011
| AFP
Moody's warned Monday that Spain's government will find it'' very difficult'' to meet deficit-cutting targets because it cannot curb wayward semi-autonomous regions such as Catalonia ...
Spain health service chokes as austerity tightens
October 11, 2011
| Reuters
MADRID (Reuters) - Medical suppliers have not been paid for as much as two years, emergency rooms have been shut down and doctors in Catalonia have been told to accept a pay...
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