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EU warns Spain against blocking BBVA-Sabadell deal

EU warns Spain against blocking BBVA-Sabadell deal

Get the Editor’s Digest free In this weekly newsletter, Roula Khalaf, Editor at the Financial Times, chooses her favorite stories. The European Commission is warning the Spanish government that it does not have the power to block BBVA’s €11bn hostile bid for rival lender Sabadell. The Spanish Government ordered Tuesday that the bid will be fully reviewed by the cabinet. …

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Petrol car issues reported across Spain during heat wave – Mechanics warn

Petrol car issues reported across Spain during heat wave – Mechanics warn

The mechanics have warned that there are petrol car issues across Spain due to the heat wave..  Credit: BLKstudio, Shutterstock. Spanish residents aren’t the only ones hot — now their petrol cars are overheating too. As Spain bakes under an early burst of summer scorcher temperatures, petrol cars are starting to throw tantrums of their own — and not in …

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An expat’s determination to ensure parents of stillborn babies get ‘one more cuddle’

An expat’s determination to ensure parents of stillborn babies get ‘one more cuddle’

Hayley Wilkins, who went into labour with her first child in January 2013, never thought she would be able to see it breathe. Hayely collapsed during an emergency C Section at Hospiten Estepona. She was put into a induced coma. Sienna Elizabth Rose O’Shea died at 40 weeks after being born. A funeral director took her child away while Hayley …

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