What is wrong with politics in Spain?

[Perikles]

Pujol has now resigned everything, having ripped everybody off for decades.

El País in English

[Perikles]

And read here in English how the police are puzzled about one or two business transactions of the eldest son. 

[Perikles]

It is the hypocrisy which leave me staggered.

Pujol has a foundation which has the aim "dedicado al fomento de la ética y los valores"

This foundation no longer knows what it's doing.

El País

[El Profesor]

To make a serious dent in unemployment, however, Spain will need to be more ambitious. Without further changes, the jobless rate will not dip below 20% until 2019, according to the IMF. The structural unemployment rate—the level reached when the economy is working at capacity—is 18%, triple that of America.

Is this a euphemism for - They ain't done nought about it?

Link

[Perikles]

Now you can get an app "Pujolgate" with which you can try and catch members of that esteemed family and put them in jail.

Doesn't look very sophisticated. 

[Myrtle Hogan-Lance]

Why a little economic growth won't see an end to the pain in Spain



Key quote I think:

As the crisis took hold and the People's party came into power promising austerity and reform, she had hoped for structural changes, making Spain "more of a knowledge economy, more of a tech economy, a higher-productivity economy". But that hasn't happened, she says. "Why didn't they streamline the administration, streamline business procedures, or make the country less bureaucratically complex? For me it was an historic opportunity that they completely threw away."

[Janet]

comments are interesting too ...

these are a couple:

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[El Profesor]

Why a little economic growth won't see an end to the pain in Spain



Key quote I think:

Good article, to the point. But it's in the wrong thread.

[Janet]

is this one better?? 

[Guanche]

Is it the governments problem or the peoples that there seems to be so much bureaucracy in Spain?

Here whats been happining over the past three weeks. The Mother in Law gets a cleaner, paid for by the council, for three hours a week. About three weeks ago she received a letter stating that the present cleaners contract was to change and she will be getting a new cleaner from a certain date.

OK I said no problem. Not the right thing to say! The wife, who does all the running about for the MIL consulted the family, and so it began! I won't go into detail but surfice to say there were many many phone calls and three trips to Santa Cruz going to three diffrent council offices before we got the one phone number she wanted. She rang the number and was told there was no problem the new cleaner would just take over where the old one left off................. Like I said in the first bloody place!!

Now the wife was only following the advice of family members and once she started to make inquiries with the council it snow balled and dragged her deeper into the bureaucracy being sent from pillar to post for no reason whatsoever. No one seemed to be able to say 'Don't worry you don't have to do anything its all sorted'

Are the Spanish just not used to things working?

Hope this makes sense