スペイン経済のさらなる悪化

スペイン経済のさらなる悪化

ギリシアのヘアカット交渉、ポルトガル経済の悪化、そしてスペイン経済の悪化報道である。

５３０万人の失業者、失業率２２．８％と記録的な数値に達している。ラホイ政府は超緊縮財政を遂行しており、その結果、企業の倒産（前期で３５０００社）もあり、こうした経済の悪化になっている。ラホイはメルケルとの会談で、超緊縮目標の緩和を静かな口調でお願いし始めている。アイルランドと同様、スペインも不動産バブルに踊り、そして破裂してしまった。移民してきた外国人の３５％、２５歳以下の若者の３９％が失業、というものすごい状態になっている。

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Spain unemployment tops 5.3m and set to get worse
The conservative government of Mariano Rajoy has started to quietly beg the EU to ease up on deficit targets which require savage spending cuts
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 January 2012 13.50 GMT

Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy held talks in Germany with chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday.

Spanish unemployment broke through the 5-million barrier on Friday as the new government of Mariano Rajoy began to quietly beg the European Union to ease up on deficit targets that are sending the country hurtling back into recession.
Spain, which already boasted Europe's worst unemployment rate, recorded 350,000 people losing their jobs in the last quarter of 2011.
That rate now stands at 22.8% of the population and is set to worsen as Rajoy's conservative People's party government pursues a €40bn (£33bn) budget adjustment, most of it in spending cuts, to meet the EU's deficit target of 4.4% this year.
With a record 5.3 million unemployed, Spain faces a spiral of decline. The IMF has already predicted that the economy will shrink by 1.7% this year, with a further decline in 2013.
While Rajoy, who met German chancellor Angel Merkel in Berlin on Thursday, publicly maintains his target of reducing the deficit to 4.4% from more than 8% last year, his ministers are letting it be known that they want the EU to ease up on deficit targets which require severe adjustments.
Rajoy himself has pointed out that the EU's target for 2011 supposed not only that last year's deficit would be 6%, but also that growth this year would reach 2.3%.
"We need growth predictions from Brussels and that is when we will start negotiating with them on Spain's stability programme," the finance minister, Luis de Guindos said.
Almost 1.5m Spanish households now have no wage earner, with 3.5 million people joining the dole queue over the past four-and-a-half years. Southern Andalucia has a 31% unemployment rate, while 35% of immigrants and 39% of under-25s are jobless.
"Harsh adjustment policies not only fail to solve the problem, they can make it worse," warned Cándido Méndez of the General Workers' Union.
Further evidence that public austerity programmes were damaging the wider economy came from figures on company closures.
Around 35,000 companies folded in the second half of the year – a third of all those to have shut since Spain's economy ran into trouble at the end of 2008.
Much of the spending cuts have to come from regional governments, who provide basic services such as health, education and social services.
Spain's pharmaceutical companies said regional governments were now taking 525 days to pay bills for medicines provided to hospitals, with €6.3bn outstanding.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Caixa savings bank, Isidre Fainé, predicted further gloom in the housing market, in which up to 700,000 new-build homes remain unsold after a housing bubble burst several years ago.
He predicted that house prices, which have dropped around 30% since their peak, could fall to 50% or 60% of their top value before recovering.