Austerity bites deeper in Spain

Spain's government has announced further deep budget cuts for this year in its increasingly unpopular austerity drive, one day after an anti-austerity general strike paralysed Spain.

All ministries will have their spending slashed by just under 17 percent.

Civil servants' salaries will also be frozen this year and electricity prices will rise by seven percent.

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