By Corina Pons and Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – When Spain’s decade-long housing boom spectacularly bust in 2008, some 1.8 million jobs vanished and a nation littered with cranes and building sites slid into brutal recession. Now those construction workers are urgently needed back: an unprecedented labour shortage is jeopardising multi-billion euro building and renovation projects funded by the European Union to help Spain’s economy recover from COVID-19. As elsewhere around the continent, Spain is short of at least half a million building workers, according to unions and companies. Firms …

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