Talk to Al Jazeera - Zapatero: 'Europe is stronger than the crisis'

Despite many meetings with European leaders to stop the contagion, the economic crisis in Europe is spreading. Fast and with severe consequences. Spain is the most recent target for a European bailout. Last week, facing a potential run on its banks, European leaders promised hundreds of billions of euros to Spain to help calm the situation. But with a massive government debt and more than 24 per cent unemployment, will the Spanish people get through this? Jose Luis Zapatero, Spain's former prime minister, left office last year as the crisis was taking hold. He called for elections hoping a new government would get control of the situation. And he himself decided not to run for another term. Before the most recent bailout promises were made to Spain's banks Talk to Al Jazeera met Zapatero to discuss what has been described as the most difficult political crisis facing the world right now.