Euro Weekly News | Spain
IT’S the worst since at least 1999, and that’s official! With harvesting now concluded in Andalucia, this year’s olive crop is down around 57 per cent on the 1.36 million tonnes of the 2011/2012 season, with such low levels not experienced for at least 14 years! In total 560,000 tonnes…
New routes set to open this summer, along with the consolidation of some already operational during high season, offer Andalucians the chance to fly to dozens of of new destinations and encourage more visitors to come to the region. Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Vueling are the leaders of the new…
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A MAN was arrested for the alleged double manslaughter of his brother and sister-in-law. The victims died in a car crash in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, on the CM-420 road. Their vehicle was involved in a collision with another driven by the detainee, aged 41, who was also injured.…
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NATIONAL POLICE working with OCN-Interpol have detained a man in Madrid wanted by the British authorities. The man was wanted for committing an alleged sexual assault on his partner in her London home in 2010. The Portuguese man had travelled from Madrid in August 2010 to visit the woman…
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Madrid's Metro workers have started to stage partial strikes today, coinciding with the local festivity of San Isidro and the second will be on the same day as the King's Cup soccer final, which will be played by Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the city’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium on…
The Spanish General Traffic Department have developed a system that allows them to tell whether or not a car is insured by reading its number plate. And in an attempt to remove older cars off the road, with none aged over seven by the year 2016, a 'repair history record'…
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THE Director General of the Guardia Civil, Arsenio Fernandez de Mesa, saw off 14 officers who will join the contingent in Afghanistan. They will train police officers in Qala i Naw, Qin, Herat and Kabul, where there are currently 37 Guardia Civil officers.
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According to a group representing victims, the morning sickness drug thalidomide, which caused severe birth defects in babies around the world, continued being sold in Spain after being withdrawn in other countries The drug, which was used to treat nausea in early pregnancy in the 1950’s and 1960’s, was withdrawn…
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Students and teachers staged a massive strike yesterday across the whole of Spain to protest against the government’s austerity measures and the planned education reforms. Union pickets were placed at many schools and universities and the stoppage affected all levels of education. The Platform for the Defence of Public Schools,…
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Germany has seen a surge in the number of immigrants arriving from crisis-hit southern European countries like Spain, Italy and Greece. It is the biggest surge in German immigration in nearly 20 years. The Federal Statistics Office said that 1,081 million immigrants flocked to Germany last year, up 13 per…
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Spanish police say that they have uncovered a racket in which babies born to women in Morocco and the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla were sold to wealthy families in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s. The case is a new twist on Spain's so-called ‘stolen babies’ scandal which…
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An independent survey based on 12,1 million questionnaires completed by travellers of 108 nationalities has awarded third place to Iberia for its Terminal 4 at Madrid’s Barajas Airport. First place went to Heathrow's new terminal T5 which has been voted the world's best terminal in the World Airport Awards.
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The Spanish anti-abuse foundation ANAR (Ayuda a Niños y Adolescentes en Riesgo) installed a special outdoor billboard last month that only children can see. The board has a photo of a boy with a general anti-child abuse message. However, by using a lenticular imaging method, the designer has created a…
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British nationals in Spain wishing to apply for a new passport are advised of an important change in the way they will need to make applications. From Monday 13 May, all applications will need to be sent directly to the Identity & Passport Service (IPS) in Belfast in the United…
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A PARTICIPANT on the Spanish Big Brother was thrown off the show for expressing support for Basque Terrorist Group, ETA. She and other participants were talking about protests against government cutbacks while in the Big Brother house in Guadalix de la Sierra, Madrid, when Argi, said that the last…
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