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...Still, designer Richard Kent’s set sits wonderfully in the uncanny splendour of the newly reopened Coronet Theatre: a carpet of dusty grey pebbles drifts against the space’s ornate red and gilt walls, with...
...With appearances by political heavyweights such as former premier Mariano Rajoy, as well as the testimony of the defendants, the trial of the Catalan separatists is likely to overshadow Spanish political...
...Additional reporting by Richard Milne and Neil Buckley...
...“At the moment the EU just isn’t set up to deal with that,” said Richard Youngs, a Madrid-based senior fellow at Carnegie Europe....
...Few would claim that the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy has been adroit in its response to the Catalan government’s independence vote....
...Spanish history Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday made history in a way he struggled to avoid, as the first sitting Spanish prime minister to appear as a witness in a criminal case....
...longstanding reform agenda FT View FT View: Mueller’s investigation puts down a marker Despite Trump’s protests, the Russia probe must not be blocked FT View: Healing the wounds of secessionism in Spain Mariano...
...A Spanish official said of the meeting with prime minister Mariano Rajoy: “The personal chemistry was good, it was correct. They have one thing in common: they are both former interior ministers....
...The news came weeks after Richard Cousins quit as senior non-executive director after the rest of the board made clear it would support the deal....
...The Socialist leader was ultimately rebuffed not only by the conservative Popular party of Mariano Rajoy, the acting prime minister, but also by the anti-austerity Podemos movement and by an assortment of...
...Enduring partnerships with Richard Pryor, Gilda Radner and Mel Brooks show Wilder’s gift wasn’t just his own mastery, but an ability to coax it from others, too....
...In addition, Mariano Marcondes Ferraz, who joined Trafigura from Glencore in 2007, will join the management board. Pictured from left to right, Messrs Dauphin, Weir and Marcondes Ferraz....
...The 59-year-old Mr Juncker has the support of numerous centre-right prime ministers including Mariano Rajoy of Spain and Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, who will join the Luxembourger for a campaign...
...A slush-fund scandal this week engulfed Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister. Italy’s coalition remains fragile....
...The biggest city in the frozen north became a leading high-technology cluster, attracting companies such as Nokia and Microsoft and several science parks, writes Richard Milne....
...Additional reporting by Hugh Carnegy in Paris, Richard Milne in Oslo and Rachel Sanderson in Milan...
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister has insisted on seeing what the ECB has on offer before signing up to a memorandum of understanding....
...“The markets have already passed their short-term disappointment and are now focused on the bigger picture,” said Richard Gilhooly, strategist at TD Securities....
...The benchmark yield is only one bad trading day from breaking above the 6 per cent mark, which “could represent a watershed moment both psychologically and technically,” Richard McGuire, a strategist at...
...“Look, this is the Soho of Madrid, and it feels dead,” says Richard Foster, pointing to empty streets and shuttered shops near his Maison Blanche restaurant in Chueca....
...It was hoped that the new government of prime minister Mariano Rajoy, would use its momentum to bring in much-needed reforms after taking office in December — a month after Spanish government debt yields...
...Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, insisted on Monday that the country did not need an international bailout. But investors see it very differently....
...Some attribute this to the attempt by Mariano Rajoy, Spanish prime minister, to flout European Union rules by unilaterally relaxing his budget deficit target from 4.4 per cent to 5.8 per cent....
...Bond markets have given no respite to the new governments in Spain of Mariano Rajoy and in Italy of Mario Monti, pushing borrowing costs to levels close to those that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal...
...Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish opposition leader forecast to win the country’s general election on Sunday, insisted that the next government would take the necessary measures to preserve Spain’s membership in...
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