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This article talks about the recession going out in Spain and, more precisely, about the new challenges that the government is facing in order to reduce deficit and public debt, which by the way, has been downgraded by Moody's last week.

This article talks about a market failure related with the Tragedy of the Commons that took place a couple years ago here, in Spain, when the water supplies fell drastically with one of the most severed droughts of our history. The over-use of the water as a common contributed to this problem.

We all know Spain is one of the worst affected economies that crisis has left, due to many circunstances which won´t be exposed here. This artcle is releated with the course as it talks about the evil: unemployment and how it is growing at Europe

This article discuses how the increase in VAT indirect taxes, past year in Spain, by the government led to a generalized inflation that stroke the market quite heavily.

Even though water is not a scarce resource, it is becoming scarce in various regions. These regions tend to be highly populated areas such as countries in Europe including Spain and France. In contrast, areas such as iceland, who have everlasting water, do not have a problem of scarcity because of there low population.

Many people believe water scarcity is a problem mainly related to areas such as Africa, Arab Saudi...etc However this problem is affecting Europe as well. Regions such as Spain or France, during summer suffer from lots of fire. This produces lands to become inert in other words, the land becomes unprodutive. This is a problem, but at the same time, the lack of water (rain) is great. This produces rivers, lakes...etc to decrease the amount of water. Finbally all these problems are causing some countries to start having scarce water problems.

This article talks about how the unemployment rates are starting to strike Europe too, making special emphasis on the fact of the unemployment rates in some countries such as Spain and Ireland, that are passing through several difficulties recently.

This article talks about the process -that has just began- of privatization of the spanish airport controller, in order to reduce deficit and increase supply; a process that is meeting high opposition among the most traditionalist politicians together with most of the employees of AENA, who until now, where public workers, and had some advantages, less working hours, less possibilities of getting fired; which are now losing.