Mariano Rajoy

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.