MONDRAGON, Spain (Reuters) - Spain's dash into tourism in the 1970s and its property boom last decade largely passed by the Basque region, a cool, damp corner of the north with a reputation for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How are declining regions to be revitalised? This question arises wherever erstwhile bastions of heavy industry ...

The Basque region, by contrast, can borrow two-year debt at 8.5 percent interest, compared with 18 percent for Valencia or nearly 14 percent for Catalonia. But the Basque economy is not immune to ...