May 14, 2013

The new deficit target of two percent of GDP that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy plans to grant Catalonia has triggered criticism from other regional premiers who say they want the same preferential treatment. While the official target is 1.2 percent for all the Spanish regions, on Saturday Finance Minister Cristóbal Montoro stated that a deficit of more than two...

May 10, 2013

Just two days after the Constitutional Court nullified a declaration of sovereignty passed by the Catalan regional assembly in January, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría on Friday said the government would take further legal action against any moves by the region to advance its self-rule cause. Saénz de Santamaría said the administration had...

May 10, 2013

Just two days after the Constitutional Court nullified a declaration of sovereignty passed by the Catalan regional assembly in January, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría on Friday said the government would take further legal action against any moves by the region to advance its self-rule cause. Saénz de Santamaría said the administration had...

Apr 15, 2013

When the IrsiCaixa Institute for AIDS Research published its study on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in late March, it was immediately flooded with requests from people who wanted immunologist Julià Blanco to analyze their blood to provide proof that they suffer from the condition. "But we are a research lab, not a clinical lab," explains Blanco, a researcher...