Spain Information

Overview

Economy-overview: Spain's mixed capitalist economy supports a GDP that on a per capita basis is 80% that of the four leading West European economies.

Its centre-right government successfully worked to gain admission to the first group of countries launching the European single currency on 1 January 1999.

The AZNAR administration has continued to advocate liberalization, privatisation, and deregulation of the economy and has introduced some tax reforms to that end. Unemployment has been steadily falling under the AZNAR administration but remains the highest in the EU at 14%. The government intends to make further progress in changing labour laws and reforming pension schemes, which are key to the sustainability of both Spain's internal economic advances and its competitiveness in a single currency area. Adjusting to the monetary and other economic policies of an integrated Europe - and further reducing unemployment - will pose challenges to Spain in the next few years. Information provided by The CIA Fact file.

• Government
  
  • Government Information in Spanish
  • Spanish Government - Who is who in the Spanish Cabinet
    
• Business
  
  • Catalonia Office of Foreign Investment promotes investment in the Spanish region of Catalonia by providing, free of charge, a broad range of services to potential investors.
  • Union General de Trabajadores UGT is the General Union of Workers in Spain. (in Spanish)
    
• Culture
  
  • Barcelona hotels and apartments offers a free guide to more than 50 hotels and apartments in Barcelona
  • Freelance Spain - a world of information on Spain in English: news, people, travel
  • Hispanolink Information site providing useful links to businesses, travel and news in Spanish.
  • Spanish history index Virtual history resources produced in Spain and abroad.
  • Spainalive The leading English-language website on Spain. For visitors, for residents, for everyone interested in the peninsula
  • TravelNet Cultural and historical information on Spain.
    
• Radio/TV
  
  • Antena 3 Television web to cybernautes and media professionals with information about the channel like news, popular people, advertisement rates and much more.
  • Cadena Cope cadena de radio española (spanish radio network). Real audio y texto. (in Spanish).
  • CNN enEspañol
  • Los 40 Principales music radio network in Spanish broadcast all over the world, including syndicated shows in America. (in Spanish).
    
• Newspapers
  
  • Andalucia, Costa del Sol online edition of the popular cultural and lifestyle magazine styled for the international reader and published in 3 languages. English, Spanish and German
  • Costa Blanca News English local news for the region, classified ads, national news, etc.
  • España Hoy: Noticias Spain www Newspaper (in Spanish)

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