Euro Weekly News | Spain
Over half of young Spaniards and Greeks are currently unemployed. In western Macedonia, an area in the north of Greece they are experiencing 72.5 per cent youth unemployment rate according to official European statistics released yesterday, with some Spanish regions not far behind. Both economies are in deep and prolonged…
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THE Coca Cola company have just completed a study that states that there are 350,000 catering establishments in Spain. That means that there is one bar for every 132 inhabitants. The study then goes on to analyse the relationship between the Spanish and their bars. In the regions of La…
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Spain’s well known department store, El Corte Ingles, is in talks to resolve debt of €5 billion. El Corte Ingles, one of Spain's largest employers and most venerable retailers, has been hit by the economic crisis and been forced to cut prices to fight back against cheaper retailers, particularly in…
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The Association of British Insurers is warning UK holidaymakers heading for Spain to check what medical treatment they are entitled to. Over ten million British holidaymakers visit Spain every year, with an estimated 30 Britains a week needing medical treatment in Spanish hospitals. All UK travellers to countries in the…
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MADRID was the coldest capital city in the world on Friday May 17 with a maximum daytime temperature of 9.2ºC, it was colder than every other capital city in the northern and southern hemisphere that day. And the humidity levels registered meant that it felt much colder according to weather…
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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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