“Angela Merkel told Spain’s prime minister on Monday she had full confidence in his government’s ability to push through reforms, brushing aside a growing corruption scandal in Spain which has prompted calls for Mariano Rajoy’s resignation.
The scandal has hit just as 57-year-old Rajoy, who had a reputation for being boring but clean, appeared to make some headway in tackling the country’s deep financial crisis.
“We have a relation of full trust in the Spanish government,” Merkel told a joint news conference with Rajoy in Berlin, adding she believed Madrid was fully focused on driving down unemployment and pushing through structural reforms
“I am convinced that the Spanish government and Mariano Rajoy as prime minister will be able to sort out these problems and the German government will support them with all of its powers.”
Rajoy repeated his assertion made over the weekend that he not done anything wrong…..”
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