tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:21:53 +0000http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/Spain_News.htmeuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)Blogger993125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-8104330600033754729Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:21:00 +00002010-04-12T12:21:53.665+02:00 This blog is now located at http://news-spain.euroresidentes.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://news-spain.euroresidentes.com/feeds/posts/default. http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/04/this-blog-has-moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Knack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-1778805568337718000Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:38:00 +00002010-04-09T11:39:13.172+02:00According to figures provided by the Ministry for the Economy 8 out of Spain’s 52 provincial capitals now owe on average more than 1000 euros per inhabitant. In fact last year was a record year for local town halls and regional governments getting into debt with a new record of 34,595 million euros of debt out of which 28,770 correspond to town halls and 5,825 to regional governments. The town http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/04/spanish-cities-in-debt.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-1545583429151436621Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:56:00 +00002010-03-29T09:47:53.636+02:00Corruption scandal surrounding PP in the Balearic Islands The corruption scandal surrounding the funding of the PP in the Balearic Islands has deepened over the last few days. The anti-corruption judges, Pedro Horrach and Juan Carrau investigating the case allege that public funds were used to pay Nimbus, the advertising agency that ran PP’s publicity campaign in the last general elections. And http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/corruption-in-mallorca.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-2684965466588616932Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:27:00 +00002010-03-26T10:38:09.385+01:00Average pension in Spain to rise below the rate of inflation In Spain the average pension is 775.30 euros. This figure represents a rise of 3.4% according to official statistics released today.Pensions in seven autonomous regions plus Ceuta were above the national average. The highest average monthly pensions correspond to the Basque Country (961.38 euros), followed by Asturias (926.29 euros) andhttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/pensions-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3099197400319278932Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:46:00 +00002010-03-25T13:46:26.355+01:00It is expected that the boards of directors of both Iberia and British Airways will approve the final plans for a merger between the two companies. If the merger goes ahead as expected it will create the third largest European airline. Sources from both companies have indicated that once the merger plans have been ratified there is no going back. So far merger plans are on schedule following http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/merger-of-iberia-and-british-airways.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-4866351954430589708Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:59:00 +00002010-03-23T13:00:07.737+01:00Ministry of Agriculture to withdraw wine from market in attempt to push up prices Over the next few weeks the Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture will put into action a plan to withdraw two million hectolitres of wine before distillation at a price of around 1.85 euros per hectograde. This measure, supported by agricultural organizations and cooperatives, is designed to reduce the supplyhttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/protection-of-wine-prices-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-5871154138784066054Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:16:00 +00002010-03-23T13:17:52.493+01:00Andalucian regional government approves law in favour of right to ‘dignified death’ The Andalucian parliament has approved a law in favour of the right to a dignified death. However, it was not unanimously supported within the parliament and some members of the PP voted against the proposed law. The articles which the PP voted against concerned the duties of health professionals attending http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/dignified-death-law-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-5194576592241442433Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:45:00 +00002010-03-17T11:01:02.418+01:00Chávez denies any links between his government and ETA and FARC The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, has once again denied a decree issued by a Spanish judge linking his government to ETA and FARC (the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Columbia). When asked by the press about links between his government and ETA he said he would not answer the question because it was ‘so stupid’ and that ‘even http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/links-between-venezuela-government-and.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-1392352029151173738Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:16:00 +00002010-03-12T10:17:58.745+01:00Miguel Delibes dies at the age of 89It has been announced that the writer and academic Miguel Delibes died at home in Valladolid at 7am today surrounded by close family members. The health of Delibes, who was 89 years old, had worsened drastically over the last few hours and he had been unconscious since yesterday. Last night the king called the home of Delibes to find out how he was. One of his http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/spanish-author-miguel-delibes-dies.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-8002546827549306987Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:07:00 +00002010-03-10T12:07:33.772+01:00The Ministry for Foreign Affairs expects imminent release of Alicia Gámez According to the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Alicia Gámez a volunteer worker for a NGO from Catalonia kidnapped on 29th November last year in Mauritania together with Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta is expected to be released immediately. Another woman, Philomene Kabourée, who was also kidnapped by terrorists and http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/release-of-spanish-hostage-in.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-1280596088784819329Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:26:00 +00002010-03-05T09:30:45.584+01:00Very high pollen counts predicted for Spring in Spain Experts are predicting an intense spring for people allergic to pollen given that airborne pollen will be double the amount recorded in 2009 due to abundant rainfall earlier this year.Javier Subiza, a leading expert in the area of immunology, said that the concentration of pollen in the air in April, May, June and July would be 5,100 grains http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/pollen-count-in-spain-expected-to-rise.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3122146192487244193Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +00002010-03-03T10:32:09.683+01:007 out of every 10 Spaniards use online social networks According to the results of a survey published last week by the Association for Research into the Means of Communication (AIMC) around 71.3% of the Spanish population are registered with an online social network, an increase of 20.5% compared to last year. Facebook is the most popular social network in Spain - 61.7% of Spaniards registered http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/03/social-network-usage-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3882467652212360958Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:56:00 +00002010-02-26T13:57:23.137+01:00Storm predicted to hit Spain this weekendAccording to the State meteorological Agenct (Aemet) a storm which is currently crossing the Atlantic will hit Spain this weekend. It is expected that Galicia, Asturias and Cantabria will bear the brunt of the storm with winds of up to 120 kilometres per hour. The strength and devastating effects of the storm are expected to be ‘explosive’. Ángel Rivera, ahttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/storms-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-6828564259769306498Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:15:00 +00002010-02-25T12:20:50.802+01:00EU defence ministers are meeting this week in Majorca to discuss the new EU policy on defence and security as established in the Lisbon treaty. The conference which was officially inaugurated yesterday by the Spanish defence minister, Carmen Chacón, will also be attended by defence ministers from Morocco, Algeria, Mauritius, Libya and Tunisia because one of the objectives of the meeting is to http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/eu-defence-ministers-meet-in-majorca.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-2694318995708645472Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:16:00 +00002010-02-24T11:23:04.041+01:00Home Office Minister says that limits must be put on volume of traffic in Spanish cities The Spanish Home office Minister, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, said yesterday that mayors have changed their outlook on the subject of road safety because ‘we are all aware that the volume of traffic in cities cannot continue to rise’ and that ‘the current situation cannot go on’. He made these statements during http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/traffic-limits-in-spanish-cities.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-7471329035904625938Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:09:00 +00002010-02-23T11:10:35.030+01:00Tourism in Spain grew by 1.1% in January According to a survey carried out by Frontur for the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce on the movement of foreign tourists 2.54 million tourists visited Spain in January this year which is an increase of 1.1% compared to the same period last year. This small increase comes after eighteen consecutive months of negative figures and breaks the http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/spanish-tourism-industry-showing-signs.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-4927550569804539184Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:14:00 +00002010-02-22T14:20:00.395+01:00King of Spain to publish his daily agenda via InternetDon Juan Carlos, the King of Spain, has decided to publish his daily agenda of official meetings held in the Zarzuela palace. From now on the public and the press will have details of who he is meeting and what he is talking about - something completely unthinkable up to now given that information on most of the King’s meetings was kept secrethttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/spanish-royals-and-internet-20.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-7649419726581793797Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +00002010-02-19T13:35:29.536+01:00Number of immigrants grew by 7.1% in Spain in 2009The number of immigrants living in Spain grew by 300,000 last year. This is equivalent to 7.1% and is the lowest figure since 1992 according to information provided this week by Consuelo Rumí, the Secretary of State for Immigration and Emigration.Rumí said that the number of immigrants coming to Spain had gone down by 17% since 2000 - in 2001 the http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/immigrants-arriving-in-spain-in-2009.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-8700465920728064883Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:12:00 +00002010-02-18T10:16:53.030+01:00Spanish consumers gaining confidence as consumption in Spanish households increases for the first time in two years According to the latest figures published by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE) Spanish households have started to consume more. Consumption by Spanish households had been decreasing continuously since the beginning of the financial crisis at the end of 2007. Howeverhttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/consumers-report-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-8242619239638552473Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:38:00 +00002010-02-17T12:42:57.565+01:00Pensioner groups ask for more limits on early retirement in Spain Various associations representing pensioners in Spain have called on the Spanish parliament to reject the government’s proposals to raise the legal age of retirement to 67. They also rejected the government’s plans to raise the number of years for calculating pensions because they believe this will lead to a reduction in the amounthttp://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/pensioners-protest-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-7917009648241620079Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:03:00 +00002010-02-16T15:06:29.167+01:00Spain willing to accept five Guantanamo inmates The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, has announced that Spain is prepared to accept five inmates from the Guantánamo prison in Cuba, as long as legal and security conditions are carefully respected during their transfer. During a breakfast meeting organized by the ‘New Economic Forum’ Moratinos said that despite declaring last http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/guatanamo-prisoners-in-spain.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3936392213115904596Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:06:00 +00002010-02-16T15:08:22.962+01:00Obama and Spanish King Juan Carlos to meet this week The White House confirmed during a press conference last week that the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the King of Spain are to meet for the first time on 17th February while the King, Juan Carlos, is on a two-day official visit to Washington this week.The Spanish government confirmed last month that Juan Carlos would be http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/meeting-between-king-of-spain-and-obama.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3103965760977529445Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:39:00 +00002010-02-12T11:42:08.065+01:00The Economist calls for more leadership from Zapatero inorder to overcome ‘inertia’ and ‘paranoia’The Economist has published three articles criticising the Spanish government for its handling of the recession. Although it points out that Spain is not facing the same problems as Greece, The Economist says that Spain is the best example of the crisis and criticises the reaction of Zapatero’s http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/zapatero-criticised-by-economist.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-7081540654364580844Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:52:00 +00002010-02-10T13:22:21.843+01:00For the fourth time in ten months the government has been asked by Parliament to reduce the money it spends on highly paid posts by 25%. The call to reduce costs has come from the PP, backed by the PNV. The PP has accused Zapatero of increasing highly paid posts paid for by the government by 20% something which, according to Rafael Merino who is leading the call for more austerity, makes it the http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/spanish-government-asked-to-reduce.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561252.post-3840207511265140358Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:46:00 +00002010-02-09T10:50:51.112+01:00Spanish government promises to reduce budget deficit to 3% Yesterday, the Minister for the Economy, Elena Salgado, set out the government’s plans to reduce its budget deficit during a visit to London in an attempt to calm fears about the state of the Spanish economy. Salgado met with the directors of the Financial Times who recently warned that Spain’s economy risked facing worse problems than http://www.euroresidentes.com/Blogs/2010/02/spanish-minister-of-economy-meets.htmleuroresi@euroresidentes.com (Euroresidentes)0