Thousands of protesters marched in Madrid on Wednesday against the cost of the pope’s visit at a time of public anxiety and economic hardship.
Tensions mounting between native job-seekers and immigrants competing for a declining pool of work in Spain will intensify in 2009.
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/ 25 October 2007
A Spanish fishing boat found seven bodies and one survivor in an open-topped wooden boat adrift off Mauritania, with dozens more passengers thought to be missing, Spain said on Thursday. According to the survivor, the boat began its journey with about 50 people on board and had been adrift for about 20 days.
Prices for holiday homes are falling in Spain as a glut of new developments, corruption scandals and land-grab laws make foreign buyers think twice about one of Europe’s most popular vacation destinations. A construction bonanza, driven by cheap credit, saw house prices more than double in seven years and helped Spain build as many new homes each year as France, Germany and Italy combined.