An escalating dispute between Madrid and Spain's regional authorities risks undoing its austerity pledge to EU authorities.
The conflict erupted on Tuesday (31 July) when Jose Antonio Grinan, the President of the Andalucia region, walked out of a meeting of Madrid's Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy when it told him to cut another €3 billion from his 2012 budget.
Catalonia boycotted the meeting in the first place, saying it already cannot pay some hospital, child-care and e...
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