France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain will “intensify their cooperation” to identify U.S. tax cheats in return for help in finding U.S. accounts held by residents of those countries.

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5 European Nations Agree to Help U.S. Crack Down on Tax Evasion

Three British men die and three more people remain in hospital after contracting Legionnaires’ disease while on holiday in Spain, a tour company says.

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Zero Hedge says it is: And it does look terrifying. Spain’s youth unemployment rate is 51.4 percent! Greece’s is nearly there. Isn’t that the sort of that leads to war and destruction? Perhaps, though there’s a key caveat missing here: Spain’s youth unemployment rate is only calculated among those youths actually looking for work. As the European Commission explains , the vast majority of kids that age are still in school. That means only about 17.8 percent of all Spanish youths aged 16-24 are jobless and not in school. (In Greece, it’s 10 percent of all youths; across the euro area as a whole, it’s 8.7 percent.) Those are still terrible numbers, albeit somewhat less apocalyptic. Read full article > >

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All but one household in Sodeto, Spain, held at least a piece of a winning ticket in the Christmas lottery’s huge first prize of $950 million, the biggest ever.

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Sodeto Journal: Tiny Village of Sodeto Wins Big in Spain’s Lottery

Spain’s unemployment figure passed the five million mark in the last quarter of 2011, official figures show.

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Spain jobless passes five million

Solid government bond sales in Italy and Spain indicated that efforts by the European Central Bank to avoid a regional credit freeze were still showing at least short-term benefits.

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Europe Gets Some Reassurance in Auctions of Debt

Borrowing costs tumbled for both economically stressed countries, giving markets and the euro a lift.

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Strong Debt Auctions Held in Spain and Italy

22 percent of Spain out of work.

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Announcing spending cuts and higher taxes to address a wide budget deficit, Spain admitted its finances were probably even worse because of reckless outlays by its autonomous regions.

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As Spain Trims Deficits, Scrutiny Falls on Regional Governments

Spain’s new conservative government announces 8.9bn euros in austerity measures in order to lower the country’s borrowing.

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Spain sets out new spending cuts

Large numbers of people across Latin America apply for Spanish citizenship, on the day Spain ends entitlement for descendants of civil war emigrants.

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Exiles rush for Spanish passports

MADRID — Spain will slide back into recession early next year with the current quarter and the first of 2012 both registering negative growth, new Economy Minister Luis de Guindos said Monday. De Guindos said he expects the economy — the eurozone’s fourth largest — to contract by between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent on the previous quarter in the final three months of this year and again in the first quarter of next year. He said the outlook for next year was poor. Read full article > >

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England face France, Sweden and co-hosts Ukraine in their opening games of Euro 2012, while Republic of Ireland are drawn against Spain, Italy and Croatia.

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England to face France at Euros

LONDON — Euphoria over a move by the world’s major central banks to keep Europe’s debt crisis from choking off global lending was tempered Thursday amid renewed signs of the region’s slowing growth and reminders that European woes have no easy fix. Stock markets in Asia were broadly up on the coordinated move by central banks on Wednesday. But markets in Europe opened down, rebounded after relatively good bond auctions in Spain and France, and were mixed approaching midday. Read full article > >

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Dramatic move by central banks cannot solve Europe’s debt woes

Spain’s conservative leader Mariano Rajoy says the country’s voice must be respected again, after a resounding election win for his Popular Party.

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‘No miracles’ warns Spain victor