After months of suspense, Spains government finally got the guarantee it needed that the 2018 budget would be approved after a Basque nationalist party said Wednesday it would vote in favour of the spending plan.
The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose five lawmakers are key for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's minority government in a parliamentary vote on the budget scheduled for later Wednesday, said in a statement it had "decided, out of a sense of responsibility, to vote yes to the budget".