It is a stark symbol of Spain's decline.<br /><br />Handouts from the Red Cross are nothing unusual in a poor neighbourhood. But people are now lining up for rice, pasta, milk and potatoes in Tres Cantos, a supposedly affluent dormitory town, north of Madrid.<br /><br />Many here are middle class but that has not protected them from the ravages of the Spanish economic downturn.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/