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In Spain, Spanish economy, Spanish Politics 6th June 2023

Government to request extra €94 billion of European funds today

Today’s Council of Ministers is expected to approve the addendum to the extension of the Recovery Plan, with which Spain will ask Brussels for an additional €94 billion from the Next Generation programme, including soft loans and non-refundable aid. Initially, the European Union assigned Spain direct transfers of €69.5 billion from the Recovery Mechanism, to be unblocked through compliance with the investments and reforms agreed in the Plan, as well…

Spanish economy, Spanish Politics 26th April 2023

Spanish government tells World Bank it will not pay €2-billion ICSID awards for renewable energy debts

The World Bank has sent a devastating letter to the Spanish government to demand payment of the awards that condemn our country to compensate the companies and investors affected by the retroactive withdrawal of the premiums granted to renewable energies. The ICSID, the World Bank’s international arbitration tribunal, reminded the PSOE and Podemos government that it cannot neglect its obligations and that it must compensate the companies that have suffered…

Spanish Politics 17th April 2023

Two laws – one on Labour another on Equality – change on the same day, but in a different way, another third law. State Gazette publishes two changes but warns it is impossible to know which is in force…

Legal uncertainty? In Spain? Not at all. It is just that the judge and the interested parties can choose which wording they prefer to apply to art 16.1 letter c. of the Law on Offences and Penalties in the Social Order (which typifies “the very serious offences faced by companies, recruitment agencies or training entities if they request vetted and personal data when recruiting personnel”). The Official State Gazette (BOE)…

Spanish Politics 3rd April 2023

Sumar, Yolanda Díaz’s project, starts off by dividing

The second vice-president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz has finally formalised the announcement of her candidacy for the presidency of the Government. Yesterday, Sunday, the presentation of her new ultra-left political platform, under the name Sumar, took place. The choice of the party’s name, which means ‘add up’ or ‘sum’ in Spanish, could not have been more appropriate, bearing in mind that no fewer than fifteen political forces will be…

Relevant News Item, Spanish Politics 31st March 2023

Moncloa vetoes ABC newspaper on Sánchez’s Beijing trip

ABC newspaper denounces that “La Moncloa has once again vetoed ABC: the Secretary of State for Communication, Francesc Vallès, has excluded this newspaper from the group of media accompanying the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, on the official trip to China that began this Thursday. Despite the fact that ABC applied for accreditation in due time and form, like other media that have been admitted, the Secretary of State…

In Spain, Spanish Politics 28th March 2023

Changes in Health and Industry: party (PSOE) before government

Fernando González Urbaneja | The mini Cabinet reshuffle is irrelevant: two ministers are leaving, two more are coming in, and none of them will leave their mark on the government. Traditionally we call any change of government a crisis, but this latest one has no more to it than the convenience of the Socialist Party to embellish, at least in appearance, its electoral offer. Two ministers are leaving to head…

In Spain, Spanish Politics 22nd March 2023

No-confidence motion against Sánchez: How good my government is, how incompetent the opposition is

Fernando González Urbaneja ! The no-confidence motion against the government led by Ramón Tamames and promoted by the parliamentary group VOX will conclude this Wednesday with an unfavourable vote for the promoters and without major consequences, beyond two parliamentary sessions in which Sánchez has deployed the familiar arguments about the achievements of the government and the incompetence of the opposition, especially the one who was absent, namely Nuñez Feijóo. The…

Spanish economy, Spanish Politics 21st February 2023

Renfe president and ADIF former president leave posts over scandal of trains too big for tunnels

The president of Renfe, Isaías Táboas, and the Secretary of State for Transport, Isabel Pardo de Vera (former president of ADIF, the company that owns the railway network) have left their posts yesterday, after the major scandal that Renfe, to cover the service of the Spanish north coast, had ordered 31 trains with such dimensions that they did not fit through the tunnels of the route: https://bit.ly/3YSJvIj The fact was…

Spanish economy, Spanish Politics 16th February 2023

Pointless interventionism

J.P. Marín-Arrese | It is not surprising that on the eve of elections, government coalitions should be breaking up, with each partner distancing itself from its former allies in an attempt to improve its election results. What is surprising in our country is the deliberate intention of publicly banging each other’s heads together while at the same time pretending not to get out of the official car. It is understandable…

In Spain, Spanish Politics 13th February 2023

Spain loses its bearings: up to 18 months in jail for killing a rat

The Animal Welfare Law promoted by Minister Ione Belarra and approved in Congress with the votes of PSOE, Podemos, ERC and Bildu has introduced an important change in the Spanish Penal Code by changing the term ‘domestic animal’ to ‘vertebrate animal’. A vertebrate animal is any animal that has bones and an articulated skeleton or backbone. Now, under the new law, striking, injuring or killing a vertebrate animal will be…

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