State of Spain

February 22, 2024

Spain supplants UK as top hotel investment destination amid buoyant demand

...The survey said hotel investments accounted for the largest proportion of 36 per cent of total commercial real estate investment volumes in Spain, from 18 per cent the year before....

April 14, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

War in Ukraine

Greece and Spain under pressure to provide Ukraine with air defence systems

...The demand to donate systems was reiterated at a meeting of foreign and defence ministers of the EU’s 27 member states in Luxembourg on Monday....

April 22, 2024

News updates from April 18: Netflix profits surge; Jurors selected for Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial

Spain’s beauty group Puig aims for €14bn IPO

...The total value of shares being sold is up to €3bn....

April 18, 2024

News updates from April 2: Biden speaks with Xi, Fed’s Mester raises long-term rate outlook

Spain to recognise Palestinian statehood by end of July

...He had previously signalled Spain’s intention to recognise a Palestinian state without specifying a timeline for doing so....

April 2, 2024

Spanish politics

Spain aims to recognise Palestinian statehood by July

...A few EU member states, including Spain, Ireland and Malta are in favour of unilateral recognition, while others, notably Germany, would consider this step only as part of a two‑state solution agreed by...

April 2, 2024

FT Live

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Capitalizing on Disruption

Spanish economy

Spain to scrap ‘golden visas’ for foreign property investors

...Although golden visas can be obtained via various forms of investment, Sánchez said 94 out of every 100 granted in Spain had been linked to property purchases....

April 8, 2024

UK politics opinion polls

UK general election poll tracker

...The Financial Times’ UK poll tracker combines voting intention surveys published by major British pollsters ahead of the general election expected this year....

April 23, 2024

News updates from April 8: Millions watch solar eclipse; Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence in 2025

Spain to scrap ‘golden visa’ regime for foreign property investors

...Spain has become the latest EU country to eliminate “golden visas” used to attract foreign property investors, as the soaring cost of housing for locals renders the programme politically toxic.Prime Minister...

April 8, 2024

Thames Water

Thames Water lenders face losses of up to 40% in event of nationalisation

...cent of their money....

April 18, 2024

FT Globetrotter

Where to discover zarzuela, Spain’s magical musical theatre, in Madrid

...I think the idea was to bring zarzuela to audiences outside of Spain, who don’t have a preconceived idea of what it is as they do in Madrid.”...

April 9, 2024

Spanish politics

Spanish PM considers quitting as wife faces corruption investigation

...But their greatest ire has been stoked by his willingness to work with separatist parties in Catalonia and the Basque country whose goal is to cut ties with the rest of Spain....

April 24, 2024

Chinese society

China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’

...The curse of 35 is a source of major anxiety for tech workers....

April 23, 2024

JPMorgan Chase & Co

Russian court orders seizure of $440mn from JPMorgan

...Last summer, a Russian court froze about $36mn worth of assets owned by Goldman following a lawsuit by state-owned bank Otkritie....

April 24, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Qatar reconsiders mediator role between Hamas and Israel

...state over the weekend....

April 18, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Post Office Ltd

Ex-Post Office chair accused of using ‘offensive’ term about job candidate

...Former Post Office chair Henry Staunton used an “offensive and outdated term” about a candidate for a job, according to an independent probe into conduct at the state-owned group....

April 18, 2024

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

It’s Spain’s turn for a wine revolution

...The tasting was so wide-ranging that I had to choose a theme and decided to concentrate on reds, mainly those from the north-east of Spain. Spain is also responsible for some great whites....

March 16, 2024

Letter

Letter: Could ya, and should ya, say ‘would ya’?

...Hugo Pooley Conference Interpreter, Madrid, Spain...

April 19, 2024

US Election Countdown

Opening salvos in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

...And today, the president will visit Trump’s adopted home state of Florida, one week before its new six-week abortion ban goes into effect....

April 23, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....

April 23, 2024

ReviewFiction

Caledonian Road — Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-Britain novel

...If this is a state-of-the-nation novel, O’Hagan paints a bleak portrait....

March 28, 2024

Travel

Asturias — why Spain’s cool coast is this summer’s hot destination

...Steppes Travel has teamed up with nature-tourism outfit Wild Spain Travel to offer a seven-night tour, “On the Trail of Bears in Northern Spain”; see steppestravel.com The figure of the guisandera (“stew-maker...

March 13, 2024

News updates from February 20: Walmart flags sales slowdown; China cuts mortgage lending rate

Brussels clears €18.6bn telecoms joint venture in Spain

...Brussels has cleared the €18.6bn Spanish joint venture between Orange and MasMovil in what the telecoms industry sees as the potential start of further consolidation....

February 20, 2024

Spanish politics

Spain’s prime minister strikes fresh amnesty deal with Catalan separatists

...The amnesty law will now be put to a vote in the lower house of Spain’s parliament next week....

March 7, 2024

FT readers respond

FT readers respond: UK ‘pothole crisis’

...For others, Britain’s pockmarked roads symbolise a broader problem — a chronic mismanagement of public funds....

April 24, 2024

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