How Spain is fighting the recession
Spain is battling its economic problems with lower speed limits, a tourist drive – and a return to pesetasWith the cost of oil threatening to further slow down an economy that is already in the doldrums, Spain is not lying down and taking it. In the ...
World Cup 2010: Spain’s success puts nationalists in the shade
Catalans and the Basques have been flying the flag for the RedsThey call it "the red effect". It has spread down Spanish streets on the torsos of hundreds of thousands of fans wearing the shirt of the national soccer team, La Roja or "The Red", and thr...
Pamplona bans vuvuzelas for bull run
World Cup instrument made famous in South Africa deemed irritating and dangerous by organisersIt is one of the biggest and loudest parties on the planet, but organisers of the nine-day San Fermín fiesta in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona have de...
Spanish politician leaps to defence of Iker Casillas’s girlfriend
Spanish journalists have attacked British counterparts for linking Sara Carbonero with Spain's lacklustre form at the World CupShe is just a sports journalist, but as attempts to portray the Spanish football reporter Sara Carbonero as the biggest threa...
FC Barcelona boss Joan Laporta to swap goals for polls as he promises to ‘set Catalonia free’
Success on the pitch could soon make Barcelona chairman Joan Laporta Catalonia's most powerful separatist politician
He was compared last week with the football greats Pelé and Maradona, but the magic feet of Barcelona star Lionel Messi now promise more than goals for his club president. Trusting in the...
