Lisbon, May 12 (EFE).- Spain will emerge stronger from the economic crisis and will return to prosperity, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in comments ahead of this week's Iberian Summit. The crisis has had a "tremendous social impact," Rajoy said in comments e-mailed to Portugal's Lusa news agency. It is "logical and symptomatic of the good health of democracies" that there be a "social response to many of the political measures taken to allow an exit from the crisis on solid and stable foundations," Rajoy said.

Madrid, Mar 20 (EFE).- Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Wednesday that his government will almost certainly revise its economic outlook for 2013. He made the remarks in Parliament to the leader of the main opposition Socialists, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, who inquired whether the government was maintaining the economic forecasts it sent to Brussels in April 2012.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy declared Wednesday he had saved the country from economic disaster and vowed to crack down on corruption, in his first state of the nation address as he fended off a party slush-fund scandal. The conservative 57-year-old leader lamented Spain's jobless queue of nearly six million people and a jobless rate of more than 26 percent, but vowed to press ahead with his programme of budget restraint and economic reforms.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy insisted Wednesday his country did not suffer from "generalised corruption", in the wake of a scandal rattling his ruling party. "It is not true that there is a generalised state of corruption in Spain," he told parliament in his first state-of-the-nation address. "Spain is a clean country going through tough times in which cases of corruption emerge just like in any other," Rajoy added. "The exceptions are representative only of themselves, as in any place where bad weeds grow."