Spain

Spain fines Airbnb 64 million euros for posting banned properties

A tourism boom has driven the buoyant Spanish economy

Telefonica was the second-worst performer on the Stoxx Europe 600 Telecommunications index over the past three months, with a 21 per cent slump.

Telefonica to cut 5,000 jobs to slash costs, union says

The cuts, affecting about a fifth of the carrier’s Spanish workforce, will apply to three Telefónica units

Thursday’s figures ease pressure on the European Central Bank to cut interest rates any further in the near term.

Eurozone growth beats forecasts as France and Spain outperform

Germany, stalled for three years as industry loses edge, remains the bloc’s problem child

Isak Andic, 71, plunged to his death while hiking in mountains outside Barcelona in December last year to widespread shock.

Spain probing Mango founder’s death as homicide: media

SPANISH police are investigating the sudden death of the Mango clothing empire’s founder Isak Andic as a possible homicide, with his son as the key suspect, local media reported on Thursday.

Spain is favoured by BYD because of its relatively low manufacturing costs and clean energy network.

Spain the frontrunner for Chinese carmaker BYD’s third European plant: sources

A final decision on the plant will need to be approved by Chinese regulators

A former seafaring village of whitewashed houses and just 3,000 residents, Benidorm has mushroomed into a city of more than 100 skyscrapers whose population swells to 400,000 on peak August days.

Spain’s Benidorm embraces its Franco-era mass tourism model

[BENIDORM, SPAIN] Fifty years after General Francisco Franco’s death, Benidorm still clings to the mass tourism model it pioneered under his dictatorship, even as protests against overtourism sweep ot...

Spanish cities including Madrid and Barcelona face major housing shortages that have pushed rents and values higher.

Aviva hunts partner as it seeks to expand Spanish housing bet

Broker Savills appointed to raise about 150 million euros to inject into the portfolio

“With this investment, we will be able to contribute even more to the Spanish economy, create more Spanish jobs, tell more great stories made in Spain,” says Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos.

Netflix to invest 1 billion euros in Spain productions to 2029

According to Netflix, its activity in the country supports more than 20,000 jobs

Squatters have gone from this development 40 km south of the capital and middle-class families, driven out of the city centre by an acute housing crisis, are moving in. Construction has also restarted.

Madrid's ghost towns revived as Spain's housing crisis escalates

Demand is so strong in Sesena that there is a waiting list of 70 people for each property

Spain is trying to balance maintaining tourism as its economic engine while addressing popular concern over high housing costs as landlords opt for more lucrative tourist rentals.

Spain considers new 21% VAT on short-tourism rentals, double the hotel rate

Country is trying to keep tourism as its economic engine while addressing fears over high housing costs as landlords opt for more lucrative tourist rentals