Iraqi sports fight turns vicious
Legal fight brewing in Spain over cuts to green energy subsidies
President Obama once touted Spain as a green energy success
Italian Mafia corrupts green energy sector
A second sting in three years reveals criminal gangs are profiting from renewable energy subsidies
Car bomb defused outside Spanish megabrothel - AP
It took a bomb squad several hours to deactivate the device
Life not improving for Europeans, says survey - TheDCNF
54 percent of EU residents are ‘struggling’
A nice old Spanish lady took it upon herself to restore Jesus fresco - TheDC
80-year-old Celia Gimenez of Borja, Spain, painted over a fresco completed in 1930 by Elías García Martínez
Police: 5 suspected of stealing 9.5 tons of garlic - AP
Police say the garlic apparently came from Spain and estimate its value at $37,500
Sex sells: Spain to allow brothels and prostitutes to advertise - TheDC
Politicians hope prostitutes will stimulate impotent economy
Spiderman towels could save nationalized Spanish bank - TheDCNF
The recently nationalized Spanish bank Bankia is offering prizes, including Spiderman towels, to young investors
Poll: EU and euro lose popularity, but no one will leave - TheDCNF
Europeans are losing confidence in the currency union, the central bank and the EU itself
Bank of Spain looks to rescue Bankia - TheDCNF
The Bank of Spain announced that it is looking rescue Bankia SA by taking a controlling share, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move would convert the 4.5 billion euros of bailout funds from the Spanish government to common shares, giving Spanish authorities control of Bankia’s parent company, Banco Financiero y de Ahorros SA [...]
Group: Michelle Obama's Spain trip cost taxpayers $467k - TheDC
Trip included first lady, daughter, two friends, four of their daughters, aides, advance staff
Spaniards livid over king's elephant hunt - AP
Amid 23 percent unemployment, monarch spends twice a Spanish worker’s average salary on trip
Spain hamlet votes on pot-growing to pay off debt - AP
Village of retirees plan to grow and sell marijuana, though it could be illegal
An impossible 57% of Spain's budget is devoted to pensions, unemployment benefits and interest - BI
Problems are far greater than government officials would like you to believe
Core Europe is getting crushed right now - BI
The big big story of the morning in Spain, which is now seeing yields rise across the board
Nobody likes Spain's new labor laws - BI
But it’s essential to help pull Spain from its deep economic crisis
Germany open to raise crisis firewall to $930 bn - AP
Setting the stage for tough talks that will push for an even bigger increase to protect Italy and Spain
