Comments for Euro Weekly News

Comment on Years of neglect leave Spain facing a €60 billion road repair backlog by Steve B

Steve B — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:10:22 +0000

I dread to think how much money is required to fix Britain’s roads. They’re easily worse than Spain’s roads from what I’ve seen.
I actually think British roads are an absolute embarrassment to us and I’d bet tourists must be shocked when they see the state of them.
You’d never think we’re one of the richest countries in the world.

Comment on Barcelona airport halts departures as baby’s medical emergency forces plane to land by Per Knudsen

Per Knudsen — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 14:50:38 +0000

No in depth or investigative journalism here. Just a rewrite of what you can find on X.

Comment on Winter fuel payments are on their way to UK pensioners: will you get £100, £200 or £300? by Stephen Murphy

Stephen Murphy — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:36:59 +0000

Don’t they think it gets cold in Spain during the winter months and too hot in mid June until September,nowadays,due to climate change‼️Spanish properties hold in the cold and the heat but British pensioners are in Spain are penalised for living here?Some pensioners struggle to pay their utility bills in the hot and cold seasons!Disgraceful decision from whichever government were in power once they stopped those payments ‼️😡

Comment on Self-checkout theft and organised gangs drive Spanish retailers’ near €3bn losses by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:45:43 +0000

I worked for a food retailer, and when self-checkouts were first introduced (I helped test them), none of us thought they were a good idea other than for a quick ‘sandwich and drink’ purchase at lunchtime. But retailers got greedy, thinking of the savings they could make by sacking checkout operators, bringing in belted self-checkouts for trolleys etc, but it was always going to be a false economy. Fraud was bound to increase, and shoppers don’t like them for larger shops as it takes far longer to scan everything yourself. Perhaps retailers will start to see sense now and realise that SCs are not the huge money-saver they had foolishly anticipated.

Comment on Petrol cars get a second chance: EU move could change what drivers in Spain buy next by Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:39:26 +0000

The mad rush to push everyone into electric vehicles in the name of Net Zero was premature. Technology was already making great strides in reducing emissions for petrol cars, and hydrogen always seemed a much more environment friendly option when it was ready. But no, millions of heavy batteries were produced instead, increasing road wear and giving us a long term environmental challenge on recycling EVs when they die. I have a 16 year old petrol car with a beautiful engine and no daft ‘safety features’ to distract you, and I’m hanging on to it, as I only drive about 1500 miles a year and to put it on the scrap heap would be a greater environmental impact than keeping it.

Comment on AI teddy for three-year-olds blurts ‘I can’t help with killing you’: what to check before you buy one by Anne

Anne — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:08:16 +0000

News about AI keeps getting worse and worse!!

Comment on Self-checkout theft and organised gangs drive Spanish retailers’ near €3bn losses by Rita Kolm

Rita Kolm — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:26:09 +0000

As Cati says, the owners thought they would save money, get rid of the human staff, well I have no sympathy for them. Supermarkets are the worst. You are forced to use these automatic lanes if you don´t have an hour to spare waiting for the two lanes out of 8 that are operating with a human at the checkout.

Comment on Petrol cars get a second chance: EU move could change what drivers in Spain buy next by Mike Worth

Mike Worth — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:20:43 +0000

As a diesel car driver I will stick with my car, The EU have caused so many problems over the past few years with their Net Zero nonsense. The truth is we don´t even have the electricity available if everyone used EV´s anyway. The useless Solar farms and Wind farms cannot produce enough electricity, that is fact. While every nation outside the EU makes their electricity the old fashioned way and have plenty of it to use in their homes and factories, stealing jobs away from Europe so while Europeans lose their jobs and will never work again in their lives. Look at VW, they are cutting 50,000 job, the chance of these workers ever being employed again is zero. The EU must change its course soon or it will end. No country can survive with the current madness of its EU leaders and remember the EU wants desperately wants to go to war with Russia. I just hope they have EV charging stations all the way to Moscow if the do.

Comment on Petrol cars get a second chance: EU move could change what drivers in Spain buy next by Wietse

Wietse — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 06:00:08 +0000

I agree with Cato. Also driving an electric car is like sitting in a microwave with the electric magnetic field around you all the Time. There is no proper study on health issues yet. On top of that the authorities can shut down your car whenever they want. No EV for me!

Comment on Looting and street violence hit Barcelona as El Corte Inglés customers are trapped by arderborelnot

arderborelnot — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:27:38 +0000

An interesting dialogue is worth comment. I think that it’s best to write more on this subject, it might not be a taboo topic but generally people are not sufficient to talk on such topics. To the next. Cheers

Comment on Self-checkout theft and organised gangs drive Spanish retailers’ near €3bn losses by Cati

Cati — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:41:15 +0000

Owners thought replacing staff with automatic checkout tills was a way to increase profits…

Comment on Petrol cars get a second chance: EU move could change what drivers in Spain buy next by Cati

Cati — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:37:45 +0000

Petrol-self-charging hybrids, like Toyota’s are the best way to go for most people, they just need to be cheaper, they could keep us moving while the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are perfected. As for EVs, they’re a disaster waiting to happen. No one knows what to do with the batteries in the cars we already have on the road. Newer Chinese batteries are very low in valuable metals like cobolt and nickel, meaning that it’s not economically viable to try and recover them, which is what drives companies to create recycling plants in the first place. If there is no reward, there is no motive, and we’re in a position where the first EVs batteries are starting to go “end of life” and Europe simply doesn’t have the capacity to recycle all of them. On top of that, all of that recycling takes a heck of a lot of energy!

Comment on Russell Brand convicted – TV personality found guilty of rape and three sexual assaults by Sandra Miller

Sandra Miller — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:14:14 +0000

When I was a lot younger we called these women GROUPIES, they waited outside the backdoor of the stage desperate to be the one the Artist took home to bed, they threw their underwear at these guys, wild days indeed. But I genuinely don´t believe one word about this guy raping these women. I just don´t believe it for a second. It is a set up, they are hoping for some of his money, they are famous now, but I just don´t believe a word of it, He said, she said, cannot be any reason to jail anyone for rape. As a woman I have always found it difficult to accept that a person comes forth after twenty years to accuse someone of rape, where is the real evidence? There is absolutely none. No wonder men are losing interest in females. I hope Russel wins his appeal and sues these women for their lies.

Comment on Mercadona boss climbs to third as Spain’s richest see fortunes hit €300bn by Sandra Robertson

Sandra Robertson — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:04:49 +0000

Let´s be honest it is no surprise, hallo, he´s rich because he charges a lot of money for the food he sells, if he has Billions in the bank how about a month of goods from his stores being reduced by 50%. yeah, I thought not, greed is greed but I genuinely hope he pays his staff well, he can afford it.

Comment on Five years of complaints ignored? 110 dogs found beaten, starved and neglected in Spain by Bob

Bob — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:08:51 +0000

Prison is the only option for this cowardly sadistic moron. Let him feel the pain those dogs endured

Comment on Russell Brand convicted – TV personality found guilty of rape and three sexual assaults by CCW60

CCW60 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:08:07 +0000

Russell Brand wasn’t a target until he started speaking out against the British establishment government, grooming rape gangs, etc. As soon as he started doing this on his podcast suddenly there are women coming out of the woodwork with accusations of rape at least 20 years ago. As Andrew said above, there was no hard evidence only hearsay. Women were literally throwing themselves at him during that period and unfortunately he wrote about it in a tell all book many years ago in which he was apologetic for his whorish behavior back in the Hollywood days. I am not a fan but he was convicted in the court of public opinion based on lies long before he was convicted in the kangaroo court a few days ago. If he can appeal I hope he does.

Comment on AI Scams are getting harder to spot: what you need to know by Trust Onion

Trust Onion — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:25:26 +0000

The point that a short online recording can be enough to clone a relative’s voice is the part that sticks with us. We’d hang up on any emergency money ask, then call that person back on a number already saved before sending anything. A static secret phrase helps, and Trust Onion’s codewords change every 60 seconds so a scammer can’t reuse one overheard earlier.

Comment on Russell Brand convicted – TV personality found guilty of rape and three sexual assaults by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:14:30 +0000

No one comes out of this looking good. Everyone knew that Brand bedded 100s if not 1000s of willing women because he kept telling everyone. Some of them, many years afterwards, have now said they were not willing participants after all. It is his word against theirs, there is no concrete evidence, yet he is now a vile rapist in the eyes of the media (who have lauded and promoted him quite happily for so long) and is now vilified and will be jailed. I used to envy him (what the hell do women see in him other than that he is articulate?), now I don’t, but other than that have no particular opinion on him. However, Ed Miliband and all the others who sucked up to him a few years ago will be feeling slightly uneasy this morning.

Comment on Hackers tried to turn blood bank fridges into ovens in chilling cyberattack by Miriam Green

Miriam Green — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:57:57 +0000

Just disconnect all fridges from the internet and the problem is solved. The connection to the internet is just laziness by these companies and send a person to check they are on or set up a simple alarm system like they DID IN THE OLD DAYS.

Comment on Your partner dies in Spain. Can the bank freeze your joint account? by Michael Worth

Michael Worth — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:53:05 +0000

If anything can be complicated welcome to Spain. The reason the majority of people have a joint bank account is that both parties can access and the money without issues, that is the sole purpose but of course Spain has to be different. make life more complicated for the person who is still living and trying to get on with their life.

Comment on This popular fish is now being fed chicken meat: What’s really on your plate? by Rob Kippen

Rob Kippen — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 07:42:53 +0000

In all fairness, farmed Salmon is not the best Salmon to eat, they have lots of diseases due to being in enclosed pens and now feeding them dubious chicken parts does sound more like a possible Mad Cows Disease scenario. This is not being done for the benefit of the customer, this is a commercial choice by the fish farmer. Sadly the majority of foods supplied to the public have been so debased over the years that is the reason there are so many illnesses and diseases around today. It just means Salmon is absolutely not on my menu.

Comment on Why is it so hard for self-entitled people to say thank you? by John wittmann

John wittmann — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:16:53 +0000

I don’t say thank you or ‘qu [only to English only speakers] as I live in Spain I say gracias or muchas gracias [or is it gracias muchas ?].

Comment on Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente resigns after 115 deaths in two Spanish train disasters by Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:12:09 +0000

Rail Safety should live in the Locomotive Cab.
It doesn’t live in a Politician’s Office or remote Control Centres!

If Spain wants safer trains, it needs to put AI Monitoring Equipment on trains that detect potential track problems before any accidents occur.

Likewise Primary Safety should be vested in the Train Driver.
Afterall, it’s his Neck, literally on the Line!
Give each Train Driver the onboard resources to protect himself and his passengers.
Give him the means of detecting obstacles or other trains blocking his path in fair weather or foul.

Aircraft Pilots are protected from ‘ground encounters’ by Ground Proximity Equipment.
That equipment works ‘vertically’, preventing crashes into ‘Terrain’.

It’s not rocket science to repurpose the Idea to detect Obstacles or Track damage ‘horizontally’ instead.

Replacing ‘Distant Safety’ with Locomotive Driver Monitoring enriches his job.
While also eliminating all present Risks of Asymmetric Warfare, removing the opportunity for Hackers to endanger Rail Safety.
There are no data links to interfere with!

Joe

Comment on Calpe launches major cycling safety campaign as tensions rise on local roads by Marko Kumpuniemi

Marko Kumpuniemi — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:50:05 +0000

One important new rule in Royal Decree 518/2026 for motorists is to drop speed at least 20km/h from road max speed limit until the pass is over.

Comment on Supermarket cyberattacks spread across Europe: Fridges turned up to 50ºC by Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:11:38 +0000

Surely it can’t be that difficult to trace the source?Or are we just not being told?

Comment on European supermarkets hit by cyberattack as fridges remotely set to 50°C by Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:19:00 +0000

Asymmetric warfare! Fridges from Ireland in the West to Sweden in the North don’t happen by accident at the same time.

I wonder how many of those recent electric Grid and Rail incidents, and the present use of the Dark Web to direct civil grievance into Major Riots are the result of this same kind of meddling that is difficult to trace back to Source?

Joe

Comment on Ryanair passenger’s bag sizer photo after £75 charge: Which? on your rights by Anna

Anna — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:27:59 +0000

In reply to MArk.

Def agree, they are total rubbish

Comment on Glasgow museum removes Egyptian mummies because the dead had never given consent by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:55:16 +0000

As the MP said, the height of woke madness. Fretting over what someone might have thought 2000 years ago so as not to offend them, even though they cannot be offended because they are dead (as are all their relatives and most of their decedents), is just lunacy. This really is a mind virus, this desperate need to appear virtuous at the expense of common sense. It would be funny if it wasn’t so stupid.

Comment on Spanish Supermarket launches new mobile shopping system to cut supermarket checkout queues by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:45:15 +0000

Similar to Scan & Go, which has been operating in UK supermarkets like Sainsburys for decades. Only difference is doing it on your phone. Wide open to fraud though.

Comment on €4,000 mobility scooter at risk: Disabled expats challenge Benidorm rules by Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:58:42 +0000

I spend 3 months in the winter In benadorm in a moterhomes and bring a 2 seater mobility scooter for my wife as she as ostioparosis in her back and hands please don’t ban them for genuine people by all means stop the people who do not need them as they can be a nuisance