BRUSSELS, June 11 (Reuters) - Spain has not requested financial aid from the euro zone and the European Commission is preparing no such steps, Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj said on Friday.
Asked to comment on media speculation that the Commission was preparing access for Spain to the euro zone's 440 billion euro ($530 billion) emergency loan fund, Altafaj told a regular news briefing:
"We are not preparing anything -- it is speculation."
"The Spanish economy ministry has strongly denied this. There is no such request or a plan to table such a request," Altafaj said. (Reporting by Jan Strupczewski, editing by Dale Hudson)