Archives for April 2011
April 21st, 2011
90 people in Spain have successfully convinced the country's "Data Protection Agency" to force Google to remove unflattering links from its search engine results. A plastic surgeon who was sued for 5 million euros after allegedly botching a breast job and a high school principal who was fined for urinating in ...
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April 20th, 2011
The Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of a Catholic religion teacher who was fired from a public school in 2001 after marrying a divorced man in a civil ceremony. The bishops of Almería justified their decision on the grounds that Resurrección Galera Navarro did not meet the necessary conditions ...
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April 19th, 2011
One of Spain's most famous landmarks, the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, has had to be evacuated after a suspected arson attack. About 1,500 tourists were ordered to leave the basilica and four were treated for smoke inhalation, reportedly after a man started a fire in the sacristy, where priests don ...
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April 15th, 2011
Real Madrid and Barcelona go head-to-head in La Liga on Saturday - the first of four encounters between the teams from now until May 3. Rarely have football fans been treated to such high-profile encounters within such a short space of time. The last match between the two bitter rivals was back ...
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April 15th, 2011
UK based electrical specialist Dixons Retail is to withdraw its PC City operations from Spain due to the weak consumer environment in the Mediterranean country, it has announced. “This decision has been made due to continuing weak consumer environment and continuing losses of the business, together with the group’s plans to ...
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April 14th, 2011
Spain will press on with reforms to stimulate growth in its economy and has no plans at the moment to make further budget cuts, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said yesterday. "There's no expectation of having to make new austerity measures," Zapatero said in comments aired on state radio RNE ...
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April 14th, 2011
People heading for Spain on holiday this year will be feeling flush, because it lays claim to the cheapest prices for holiday-essentials in its resorts. Spain beats Portugal to take top slot for family value this year, while Italy will hit wallets hard with prices more than double those on the ...
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April 14th, 2011
A report released Tuesday by the OECD gives the lie to a number of assumptions: for example, that Germans work longer hours than Spaniards. The Paris-based organization's Society at a Glance survey shows that combining paid and unpaid tasks such as domestic chores, Spaniards devote an average of eight hours a ...
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April 13th, 2011
The new census for Spain shows that the number of residents who are listed on the Padron at their local town hall has reached 47,150,819. It’s an overall increase of 130,000 over the year, with the number of Spanish residents up by 146,855 and the number of non-EU foreign residents down ...
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April 13th, 2011
In Spain, new drivers who had just passed their test had to stick to a maximum speed of 80 kph for the first year. However from this month there are now no more restrictions for new drivers than experienced ones. A ministerial statement published recently in the Boletín Oficial de Estado, ...
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