Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lashed out at Jeff Bezos after the Amazon.Com founder weighed into Spain’s increasingly heated debate over the cost of housing.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party is losing support ahead of an election next year, according to the first major opinion poll published since the government faced a major migration crisis in the city of Ceuta.
Spanish inflation surged to more than double the European Central Bank’s 2% target while France’s reading exceeded expectations, strengthening the case for an increase in interest rates next month.
Europe is set to suffer one of its sharpest ever declines in grain production as extreme weather and geopolitical tensions converge to pile pressure on farmers.
Spain and Portugal are experiencing a significant data center boom, but constraints around electrical grid capacity, network access and permitting are slowing the pace of new project development.
Airbus SE employees at a major manufacturing site in Spain have gone on strike in protest of what they say are deteriorating work conditions over the past years.
Maintenance work on an Airbus aircraft at the Airbus plant in Getafe.
A heat wave that swept across western Europe last week may have damaged almost a third of French corn, further worsening crop prospects in the region’s top grower.
A dry field during high temperatures in the Ardeche department, France, in June.
The scorching heat sweeping Europe has parched soils, distressed livestock and is keeping farmers away from fields, superseding the Iran war as the greatest challenge to food supplies.
Cattle are kept cool with a water misting system at a farm in Switzerland this week.
Extreme heat across the south of the UK is shutting schools and disrupting travel, after overnight thunderstorms led to flash floods in parts of London.
Tourists cross Westminster Bridge during a heat wave in London, on June 22. Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
The European Commission has called on Spain to move away from using gas-fired power plants to stabilize its electricity system after last year’s blackout, saying better grids, interconnections and more storage should replace the emergency measures.
The country’s child poverty rate is one of the highest in Europe — and it’s barely changed in 20 years. Will an ambitious bet on universal childcare make a difference?
Thousands of farmers marched into central Madrid on Wednesday to protest against European Union’s agricultural policies and a free trade agreement with a group of South American nations.
Parked tractors during a protest by Spanish farmers in Madrid. Photographer: Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen/Bloomberg
Thousands of farmers marched into central Madrid on Wednesday to protest against European Union’s agricultural policies and a free trade agreement with a group of South American nations.
Parked tractors during a protest by Spanish farmers in Madrid. Photographer: Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen/Bloomberg
Thousands of farmers marched into central Madrid on Wednesday to protest against European Union’s agricultural policies and a free trade agreement with a group of South American nations.
Parked tractors during a protest by Spanish farmers in Madrid. Photographer: Ana Maria Arevalo Gosen/Bloomberg
US equity investors have one reason to cheer as the S&P 500 heads for its worst week since October: The share of companies posting a rise in quarterly profits is the highest in over four years.
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