Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero News

Madrid/Paris - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Monday hailed the arrest of the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA as a "determining" blow to the group, ...

WORLD.DE spoke to a Spanish foreign policy expert about his country's special invitation to attend Saturday's G20 summit in Washington after years of being snubbed by the Bush administration.

Spain's prime minister said Saturday that he is pleased to have won a seat at a global financial summit in Washington after weeks of lobbying, adding that it is time the world takes his country seriously as a ...

US President-elect Barack Obama on Friday spoke by telephone with leaders of six US allies including Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari to thank them for their messages of congratulations, an aide said.

For instance, train bombings in Madrid on March 11, 2004 were cleverly timed to influence the Spanish elections.

The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Spain has jumped to 2.8 million, the highest since 1996, the government reported Tuesday in the latest devastating fallout from the international financial ...

Spain's government has unveiled a plan to help families struggling to make their mortgage payments and reward businesses that hire new workers amid the financial crisis.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has announced the plan at a news conference Monday.

The measures will allow unemployed workers to postpone part of their mortgage payments, with a limit of 500 euros ($640) a month, for up to two years. Zapatero says the government will serve as a guarantor of those delayed payments.

President-elect-almost Obama is about to demonstrate for all of us how to work a bold new policy of foreign relations: all carrot, no stick.

Spain was not included in U.S. President George W. Bush's invitation to the governments of the world's leading economies and the larger emerging countries from the developing South -- a decision seen by Spain ...

The Spanish government is taking strong diplomatic actions, calling on its fellow members of the European Union, Latin American leaders, Asian nations and even the United States presidential candidates, with ...

Spain voiced confidence Friday that dogged diplomacy will earn it a seat at next month's summit on the global financial crisis, even though it has not been invited.

Spain stepped up diplomatic activity Thursday in a push to be invited to an economic summit set to take place in Washington in mid-November. The government was making efforts "in all directions, with everyone, ...

MADRID, Spain : A Spanish official says the government is waging an all-out diplomatic offensive to be invited to next month's summit on the global financial crisis.

The 2008 Global China Business Meeting will be held in Spain's Barcelona on Nov.

Madrid, Spain -- Spain's prime minister accepted an invitation to visit Cuba next year, the foreign minister said Tuesday, setting him up to become the first European leader to travel to the communist-run ...

His Majesty King Abdullah on Saturday held talks with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on efforts exerted to press ahead with the peace process with the two-state solution adopted to settle ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes received on Monday the International Prize Don Quijote de la Mancha from Spanish King Juan Carlos.

UEFA wishes to make the following clarifications, in the wake of declarations made by the Spanish government in the case involving Club Atletico de Madrid.

It was no "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran," but John McCain recently committed another embarrassing foreign policy gaffe - this one with Spain.

The prime minister of Spain, which played a key role in persuading the European Union to lift diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, has accepted an invitation from President Raul Castro to visit next year, a ...