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Spain now has highest number of unpaid claims in world, ahead of Venezuela

Until now, Spain has been in second place, after Venezuela and ahead of Russia. However, the accumulation of arbitration awards lost and unpaid by the Spanish state means that, at the moment, Spain has 55 awards against it with total compensation of €1.2 billion. Russia continues to occupy third place. To this figure must be added another €119 million in interest on the principal and €129 million for the legal…


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Spain’s public debt rises €225 million daily, €6.75 billion monthly, €81 billion – 5.6% – over last 12 months

The debt of all public administrations increased by 5.6% year-on-year in April, but recorded a decrease of 0.57% compared to March, reaching €1.526 trillion, according to data released yesterday by the Bank of Spain (BdE). In the last 12 months, public debt has risen by 5.6% (€81,035 million) due to higher expenditure resulting first from the pandemic crisis and, subsequently, from the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and…


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CNMV prepares to streamline procedures for fixed income issues

Emisores| Article 63 of Law 6/2023 of 17 March on Securities Markets and Investment Services (LMVSI) comes into force on September 18th. With its entry into force, the powers currently exercised by the CNMV (National Securities Market Commission) to verify compliance with the requirements for admission to trading will be transferred to the governing bodies of the markets where admission to trading of non-equity securities (understood as fixed income securities,…


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Spain is first EU country to receive European funds and twelfth to implement them

The Spanish government leads in receiving the grant part of European funds, having already completed three payments from Brussels worth €37 billion, but it is the twelfth in terms of execution capacity. Over the two-year period 2021 and 2022, Spain has barely executed 10.4 % of the €70 billion it has pre-allocated, which places it in twelfth place in the European Union. The European Commission has published the Staff Working…


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Telefónica and Microsoft to jointly deliver solutions to evolve voice technologies

Alphavalue/DIVACONS| Spanish telecom company Telefónica and Microsoft will jointly offer companies of all sizes and linked to any type of activity solutions to “evolve” voice technologies by integrating them into a cloud environment in which communications and collaborative applications are solved, the two companies said in a statement yesterday. The services have been deployed around the Microsoft Teams Phone voice platform and allow employees to connect and work collaboratively from…


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Repsol allies with Sonatrach and Pertamina to exploit hydrocarbons in Algeria

REPSOL (REP) has signed with Algeria’s state-owned Sonatrach and Indonesia’s Pertamina an alliance for the exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Menzel Lejmat area in Algeria, in which they will invest a total of $800 million (about €731 million). This production-sharing contract is part of the memorandum of understanding signed between the three companies on 28 September last year and the project is estimated to recover around $150 million (about €731…


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PP hands PSOE Barcelona mayoralty: “the trenches and blocs are over” says Nuñez Feijóo

Alberto Núñez Feijóo displayed his territorial power yesterday, Sunday, in the Retiro Park in Madrid, when he was accompanied by all the barons of his party, those who govern and those who will do so in a few days, as an example of what can happen on 23 July, in a general election. And Núñez Feijóo dedicated the event to defending the agreements reached by the PP to govern in…


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Iberdrola to build Europe’s largest on-site PV plant for Sabic in Spain with a €60-million investment

Alphavalue/ Divacons| The Spanish utility company has obtained the authorisations to begin construction of the largest on-site solar photovoltaic project for self-consumption in Europe, which it will build for Sabic at the industrial complex in Cartagena. Specifically, the installation, with a capacity of 100 MW, will involve an investment of more than €60 million and the creation of 450 new jobs during the construction period. It will supply renewable energy…


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Ence says it has signed a contract with a major brewery for conversion of thermal processes based on gas, fuel oil or coke

Link Securities| The company’s president, Ignacio Colmenares, has claimed that the company has signed a contract with a major brewery based on the transformation of thermal processes based on gas, fuel oil or coke by a pure electric solution or a mixed solution with biomass depending on the temperature and pressure at which companies need steam. The ENC executive also pointed out that before the end of this month the…


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Acciona and Sacyr chosen by Basque Rail Network to build section of Bilbao underground

Link Securities | A temporary joint venture (UTE in its Spanish initials) in which Acciona and Sacyr participate has been selected by ETS Euskal Trenbide Sarea (Basque Rail Network) to build the second section of Line 5 of the Bilbao Metropolitan Railway between Aperribai and Galdakao, with an extension of 2.8 kilometres, the digital portal CapitalBolsa.com reported yesterday. The works will include the platform and track superstructure of the section,…