Hints and tips:
...Galleria Lia Rumma and Studio Trisorio opened here in the early ’70s, pioneering the contemporary art scene with shows by artists such as Joseph Beuys and Cindy Sherman....
...Wake-up call Malta is not on the formal agenda for the summit dinner (Turkey, North Korea and Iran will feature instead), but Joseph Muscat, the prime minister, is ready to defend his government’s record...
...Do Angela Merkel and Mariano Rajoy believe that the destroyer of Hungarian democracy should remain their party colleague?...
...The speakers’ list yesterday featured Angela Merkel, Mariano Rajoy, Viktor Orban and the heads of the three main EU institutions....
...Monday Southern European meeting Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will host a meeting with leaders from France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, and Malta at El Pardo palace outside Madrid, to discuss...
...After more than eight months of political stalemate, Mariano Rajoy will submit his candidacy for a second term as prime minister of Spain to parliament on Tuesday....
...Spain sent its European affairs minister after Mariano Rajoy, the interim prime minister, turned down Mr Tsipras’s invitation....
...Three days after the Brexit vote in the UK, Spanish voters increased support for Mariano Rajoy’s centre-right Popular party, in spite of a series of corruption scandals linked to it....
...“I will defend political stability and I will complete the mandate given to me by the Spanish people,” Mariano Rajoy said, defying concern that a slush fund scandal will consume his party (Financial Times...
...Joseph Mariano, president of the Direct Selling Association, told the FT that “what we have found, and what we know from our own statistical studies and knowledge of industry, is that you can have a perfectly...
...comfortable with to make a rescue request, but the move is awaiting resolution of how it might affect other countries, particularly Italy’s borrowing costs, rather than a reluctance of the government of Mariano...
...Joseph’s post shows why that’s quite a punchy deadline, which will also need to get through Finland’s domestic politics....
...from the FT and elsewhere: Peter Spiegel’s Q&A explains what makes Spain’s bailout different from those meted out to Portugal, Ireland and Greece At a press conference on Sunday, Spain’s prime minister Mariano...
...Also at pixel time, Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy was due to address parliament to detail more austerity measures, while hundreds of Spanish coal miners protest subsidy cuts....
...Further, Joseph posts on a little noticed fact that companies that are listed in Greece risk their equity capital structure being redenominated in the event of a Grexit....
...Balkanised bonds: Joseph looked at the ECB’s decision to give 17 national eurozone central banks permission not to accept bank bonds guaranteed by governments as collateral…. where the governments are Ireland...
...NEWS Spain makes explicit plea for bank aid: Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, warned on Tuesday that the country was in a situation of “extreme difficulty”....
...Jimmy Burns is the author of When Beckham went to Spain: Power, Stardom, and Real Madrid (Michael Joseph/Penguin)...
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