Mariano Rajoy

04.06.2013 - 09.18 pm Registered unemployment in Catalonia dropped by 2.26% in May compared to April By the end of last month, 14,829 fewer people were registered at the Catalan Public Employment Service, which leaves the total number of registered...	16.05.2013 - 10.16 pm The Spanish Government's Delegate in Catalonia pays tribute to Hitler's soldiers María de los Llanos de Luna, from the People’s Party (PP), gave a diploma to a brotherhood of the ‘Divisón Azul’, a division of Spanish volunteers...	13.05.2013 - 08.43 pm The Catalan and Spanish Governments confirm that no specific deficit target has been agreed on yet During the weekend, the Spanish Finance Minister, Cristóbal Montoro, stated that the Catalan Government’s deficit for 2013 will not be above 2%. The...	10.05.2013 - 09.08 pm The Spanish and Catalan Governments hold several high-level bilateral meetings in Barcelona on the same day On the occasion of the kick-off of the 2013 Barcelona International Motor Show, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and 3 ministers (Finance,...
08.05.2013 - 04.54 pm The Barcelona International Motor Show 2013 will present two worldwide and four European premiers The Saló de l’Automòbil exhibition is the main meeting point for the automobile industry in Spain and will take place at the Montjuïc trade fair from...	03.04.2013 - 10.20 pm The Catalan President insists on talking to the Spanish Government about the self-determination claims Artur Mas, the President of the Catalan Government and leader of the Centre-Right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU), is sceptical about the Spanish...	27.03.2013 - 07.29 pm The Spanish Prime Minister and the Catalan President secretly met and agreed to relax the deficit targets According to Catalan and Spanish Government sources, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the President of the Catalan Executive, Artur Mas...	30.01.2013 - 08.34 pm Rajoy will not review the Autonomous Communities’ deficit targets if Brussels does not allow greater flexibility On Monday the Spanish Minister for the Economy, Luís de Guindos, stated that Spain might internally redistribute its total deficit target among the...
08.01.2013 - 10.17 pm The last High Speed railway stretch between Barcelona and France has finally been unveiled after years of delays The Spanish Government has finally finished the construction work and circulation tests on the last 131-kilometre stretch of railroad to France....	28.12.2012 - 08.49 pm Rajoy accepts the Catalan President’s offer to talk but rejects any modification of the 0.7% deficit target for 2013 The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, has accepted the offer sent by the new Catalan President to talk about Catalonia’s claims, while keeping...	21.11.2012 - 09.32 pm Party Review – the Spanish Nationalist People’s Party (PP) focuses on stopping the “independence delirium” As opposed to the rest of Spain, the PP is a small party within Catalonia. In the last Catalan elections, they got their best results ever,...	24.10.2012 - 07.41 pm The Catalan President accuses the Spanish Prime Minister of imposing his views instead of negotiating The Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, had previously accused the President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, of having blackmailed him by...
02.10.2012 - 10.50 pm The People’s Party blocks redistributing the deficit targets among government levels in 2012 and 2013 Catalonia and the Autonomous Communities run by the Socialist Party (PSOE) were asking to make the Spanish Government’s deficit targets stricter and...	25.09.2012 - 11.33 pm Catalan President calls for earlier elections on 25th November, which may turn into a plebiscite “In exceptional times, exceptional decisions are needed”, stated the Catalan President, Artur Mas. After the 1.5 million strong independence...	21.09.2012 - 09.55 am The Spanish Government closes the door on negotiating a new fiscal agreement with Catalonia The Catalan President states that, “if the Constitution is always interpreted from a centralist point of view”, “Catalonia will have to quietly and...	19.09.2012 - 10.09 pm The Catalan Government and the four Provincial Councils give birth to Catalonia’s Tax Administration As part of the strategy to create state structures and to get a new fiscal agreement between Catalonia and Spain, the Catalan Government and the four...