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Spain's struggling economy

As investors worry about Spain's rising debts and huge jobless queues we ask if its economy - bigger by far than Greece - be the next Euro zone candidate for a crisis?

Lesley Curwen reports from Spain, the land of sun, sea, and sand - and a shrinking economy.

As investors worry about Spain's rising debts and huge jobless queues we ask if its economy - bigger by far than Greece - be the next Euro zone candidate for a crisis?

Javier Andres is a leading economist at Valencia University, who led a movement by a hundred economists calling for reform of Spain's two-tier labour market.

We ask Spain's Secretary of State for the Economy, Jose Manuel Campa, whether Spain could become the next Greece.

And we get the views of the Spanish people on their future.

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18 minutes

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Fri 19 Mar 2010 02:40GMT

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  • Thu 18 Mar 2010 08:32GMT
  • Thu 18 Mar 2010 19:40GMT
  • Fri 19 Mar 2010 02:40GMT

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