spain
Spain : no free healthcare causes confusion with expats
Following the recent reports that British citizens are being turned away from hospitals or being charged for healthcare in Spain, Jelf Employee Benefits is...
Spain : patients rage at hospital cuts
Ever since her father had his heart attack years ago, 76-year-old Maria has been fiercely devoted to Spain's public hospitals. Now that authorities are planning...
Spain : Madrid hospitals strike against crisis cuts
Doctors and staff at public hospitals in Madrid launched a strike Monday complaining that authorities plan to privatise health services to save money in...
Spain : health workers in the streets in Madrid on Sunday
Tens of thousands of Spanish doctors, nurses and hospital staff marched through the capital Madrid on Sunday to protest budget cuts and privatisations, the...
Spain : health unrest with pharmacy strikes over unpaid bills
Hundreds of pharmacies closed in eastern Spain on Monday in a strike to demand the government step in because indebted regional authorities cannot pay...
Spain : modifies sensitive immigrant health law
Spain will modify a controversial plan to deny public healthcare to undocumented immigrants, maintaining care while billing their country of origin where treaties allow,...
Spain : Rebel doctors to keep treating illegal immigrants
Hundreds of doctors in Spain vowed Tuesday to ignore a new law that requires them to deny treatment to illegal immigrants from September 1...
Germany : banks are prepared for any scenario on Greece
German banks are "prepared for all possible scenarios" with regard to Greece even if their exposure remains "limited", the country's financial watchdog BaFin said...
Spain : no more health benefits for illegal immigrants
Spain takes pride in its universal health care but Europe's debt crisis has spurred tough budget cuts that will bring sometimes life-saving treatment for...
Maphre : strong results for 2011
Spanish based insurer Mapfre has released their impressive 2011 financial results.
The insurer saw net profits increase by 3.2 per cent last year to €963...
More downgraded insurers
Spanish based company Mapfre is the latest insurer to be affected by a surge of ratings downgrades across the sector, as Fitch moves the...
Spain : doctors protest cuts in Barcelona
Hundreds of doctors in white coats and other health workers demonstrated Tuesday in Barcelona, blocking traffic in protest at crisis spending cuts that have...
Shock cuts hit healthcare in Spain’s richest region
Spain's crisis spending has cut a bit deeper with its richest region, Catalonia, suspending payments this past week to care homes and mental clinics...
Fitch Ratings : Italian and Spanish insurers – Eurozone crisis implications
Fitch Ratings says in a newly-published comment that the majority of the Italian and Spanish insurers rated by the agency would be likely to...
Santander : 21.2% profit slump on British provision
Spanish banking giant Santander reported a slump in first-half net profits after setting up a special fund to handle insurance claims in Britain, where...
Europe : to raise farm aid offer after E. coli outbreak
The European Commission vowed Tuesday to put up more money to aid vegetable farmers reeling from a bacteria outbreak after EU states dismissed a...
Spain threatens to sue Hamburg over cucumber slur
Spain threatened Wednesday to sue Hamburg for damages after the German city pointed to Spanish cucumbers as the source of a fatal outbreak of...
Europe / health : killer cucumber bacteria spreads
Germany on Monday called crisis talks amid warnings that an outbreak of a highly virulent strain of bacteria found on imported cucumbers is spreading...
RMS Commentary: Southeastern Spain Earthquake
On Wednesday, May 11 at 18:47 pm local time, a magnitude 5.1 Mw (moment magnitude) earthquake occurred in the Murcia region of southeastern Spain,...
Spanish prosecutors, ecologists urge action on pollution
Spain's public prosecutors joined environmental groups Wednesday in demanding emergency measures to clear a thick layer of smog lingering over Madrid that medics warned...
