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...“We cannot afford to waste time in a situation where the economy is perceived to be slowing down and a possible recession is looming,” said Manuel Pérez-Sala, chair of the Círculo de Empresarios, one of...
...Ignacio Galán, chief executive and chair of Spain’s second-biggest listed company Iberdrola, has been placed under criminal investigation as part of a long-running probe into corporate espionage and ties...
...A decade ago he waged an acrimonious and public battle with Iberdrola’s then biggest shareholder ACS, the Spanish construction group headed by Real Madrid football club president Florentino Pérez....
...“The Spanish government is trying to eradicate the country by converting it into a dictatorship like Venezuela,” said Ignacio Boné, a law and international relations university student, gesturing at the...
...They include the appointment of Ignacio Briones, a centrist with an academic background, as finance minister....
...“He was serious, but also poking fun at so-called good taste,” Pérez-Barreiro says....
...My guide, José Acosta Perez, was rueful as he remembered the 1970s and 1980s....
...Historians such as Pérez are deeply wary of this kind of thinking....
...“Nothing will get better any time soon; it can only get worse,” worries Ignacio Perez, a mechanic....
...Philip van Doren, a cold and charmless pragmatist, and Víctor, Ignacio’s equally unprincipled brother-in-law, could both walk straight off the pages of a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, the great realist chronicler...
...New appointments included Rami Aboukhair as the country head for the group’s Spanish division, and the elevation of Jaime Pérez Renovales to group secretary and secretary of the board....
...José Antonio Pérez Tapias, the third candidate, has backed the plan – but recent polls suggest he has little chance of winning the leadership....
...Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who is due to step down as leader of the Socialists in July, was quick to praise the king on Monday....
...“He modernised the church in the sense that he behaved like normal people,” recalls Father Ignacio Pérez del Viso, who was once one of the pope’s theology professors....
...Mr Perez and his company have been engaged in a protracted war with Iberdrola and its executive chairman Ignacio Galan, following ACS borrowing €4.9bn to buy about a fifth of the utilities group and pressing...
...The other half concerns the company’s battle to fend off the unwelcome attentions of ACS – the Spanish construction group headed by Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid football club....
...Mr Perez and Ignacio Galan, chairman of Iberdrola, have been waging a long-running feud over ACS’s repeated attempts to place representatives on to the utility’s board of directors....
...Campaigning by the two main parties, and the single televised debate between Mr Rajoy and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the Socialist candidate, focused almost entirely on domestic matters such as the structure...
...But Ignacio Pérez Walker, a member of the National Mining Society’s 184-strong council and a senator for Piñera’s bloc, urged both sides in a letter to El Merurio newspaper to desist from ligigation....
...ACS, founded and chaired by the Real Madrid football club chairman, Florentino Perez, has so far been outmanoeuvred by Iberdrola’s executive chairman Ignacio Galan in its attempts to prise open the Basque...
...“[Ignacio] Galan and Florentino [Perez] simply despise each other,” says a Madrid-based investment banker....
...“We are in a process of consolidating what we have, and will continue to do what is necessary to integrate what we have into the group,” said Ignacio Galán, chairman and chief executive....
...or €30bn-€40bn a year; this implies selling Spanish assets to foreigners, as the other way would be to cut consumption or investment by the same amount, and [that] would produce a new recession,” says Ignacio...
...ACS, which is chaired by Real Madrid football club president Florentino Pérez, has been battling to win a seat on the Iberdrola board, but was rebuffed after the utility company’s other investors judged...
...colour, art nouveau linearity and hazily defined forms bring to mind early Kandinsky; Laureano Barrau Buñol’s “After the Bath”, where raking light falls on a naked young girl standing on hot orange sand; Ignacio...
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