I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little. - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.

How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan

In the name of the Spanish government and on my own behalf, I want to express my profound sadness for these very serious terrorist attacks which have struck your country. "I also want to express the solidarity and affection of the Spanish people... Today's attacks against seven trains in Bombay recall the tragic scenes we lived out in Madrid on 11 March 2004.