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Guy Hedgecoe

Guy Hedgecoe

Spanish Correspondent

Guy Hedgecoe is a journalist and broadcaster based in Madrid. He reports on all Spanish news issues, from the country’s economic crisis to Catalan separatism and the changing sound of flamenco music. Formerly editor of the English edition of El País newspaper, he has covered Spain for RTÉ, the BBC and Al Jazeera, among others.

Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations president Juan Rosell, Spanish labour minister Fatima Banez, prime minister Mariano Rajoy, General Workers Union leader Candido Mendez and general secretary of Spain’s biggest labour union Comisiones Obreras Ignacio Fernandez Toxo at a meeting yesterday. Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters
Spain urged to change its long working hours and late culture

National bodywants country to get in line with its European neighbours when it comes to waking, eating, working and sleeping

Members of the Mortgage Victims’ Platform stage a sit-in protest inside a Banco Popular branch in Barcelona yesterday. Photograph: Gustau Nacarino/Reuters
Spanish region at odds with EU over efforts to alleviate evictions crisis

Andalusia allows some homes to be expropriated from banks for three years

Convergencia i Unio party leader Artur Mas
Spanish court suspends Catalonia’s declaration of sovereignty

Spain’s Constitutional Court is in the process of examining an appeal against the current abortion law by the governing Partido Popular, led by Mariano Rajoy. Photograph: Reuters/Juan Medina
Spanish government accused of returning to Franco era on abortion

Reform to include outlawing of abortion in cases of foetus malformation

A protester is detained by Spanish riot police during a planned demonstration against the government in Madrid. Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters
Spanish government loosens deficit targets as revised forecasts add to gloom

Deputy prime minister says economy will shrink this year more than previously expected

A man identified by the Spanish Interior Ministry as Algerian national Nou Mediouni is seen in this handout photo, following his arrest in Zaragoza . Photograph: Reuters
Two terror suspects held in Spain

The interior ministry said the suspects were “lone wolves” who had a similar profile to that of the Boston Marathon bombers

Police officers block demonstrators trying to approach the Ritz Hotel during a protest against government austerity measures in Lisbon in April. Photograph: Reuters
Austerity ‘too fast and too deep’ has left Portugal’s economy staggering

Constitutional court struck down four austerity measures, leaving €1.3bn hole in public accounts

Beekeepers protesting in front of the parliament in Lisbon. So far Portugal has not had the kind of social unrest seen that by its troubled neighbours such as Spain and Greece have seen . Photograph: Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters
Portugal seeks to recapture spirit of 1974 ‘revolution’ for battle against austerity

The Portuguese government’s strict austerity programme, in accordance with the bailout conditions, is fuelling civic outrage

Spanish riot police attempt to prevent anti-eviction activists from approaching the house of Spanish parliament chairman Jesús Posada during a protest in Madrid. Photograph:Juan Medina/Reuters
Spain’s mortgage debate turns sour

Activists marching on homes of government politicians to protest against evictions

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