Spain's Catalonia halts payments for social services

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Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:10PM GMT

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Government employees demonstrate against the Spanish government's austerity measures, in the center of Madrid. (file photo)
Spain's most indebted region, Catalonia cannot afford to make its grant payments to social institutions such as hospitals and homes for the elderly for the month of July, the Catalan government say.

"It is due to a problem of liquidity," a spokeswoman for the Catalan regional government's economy ministry said on Tuesday.

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