Archives for November 2011
November 17th, 2011
The average price per litre of diesel stands at 1.316 euros, exceeding the price per litre of petrol for the first time since 2009 and is just a centimo off the historical ceiling it reached in July 2008. As recorded in the European Union Petroleum Bulletin, a litre of 95 octane ...
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November 16th, 2011
The European association of minority shareholders (Euroshareholders), delivered to Emilio Botin, President of Santander Bank, the Shareholder-Friendly Award for its policy with regard to minority shareholders. During the ceremony, the President of the European association, Jella Susanne Benner-Heinacher, was accompanied by Javier Cremades, Secretary General of the Spanish association of minority ...
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November 15th, 2011
With the aim of encouraging homeowners to save energy efficiently, ahorratuenergia.es (save your energy) has been launched, a free web application that informs users of their energy consumption. Easy to use, the app provides the owner with the current costs associated with their property and any potential energy improvements which ...
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November 14th, 2011
Tourism in Spain is thriving, despite the crisis, enjoying its fourth best year, and forecast to close with 57 million foreign tourists, an increase of 8% in spending, and with "revenues now exceeding those achieved in 2010 by 1,500 million euros, a 14% increase above 2007 and 2008 levels." "We are ...
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November 11th, 2011
Ikea has revised its plan of expansion for the Spanish market due to administrative burdens slowing their progress, said the new CEO of Ikea Spain, Bethlehem Frau, in a recent press conference. Specifically, the Swedish multinational plans to invest 2,500 million euros into the opening of 14 stores until 2020, eight ...
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November 10th, 2011
In the coming months officials from Eurodisney are seeking, in Madrid and Alicante, to hire Spanish workers who have an intermediate level of English and French, for positions in the amusement park in Paris. The rate of pay will be around 1,378 euros per month, on a schedule of 35 ...
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November 9th, 2011
For the fourth consecutive year, Christmas will be marked by the economic crisis, which will cause consumers to be cautious when making their purchases, reports El Mundo. Each Spanish home will spend an average of 668 euros during these holidays, representing a decline of 1% compared to 2010 in real terms, ...
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November 8th, 2011
According to a survey conducted by Randstad among professionals in 29 countries, the Spanish figure of 33% is two points above the EU average, one of the highest rates in Europe and behind only to Sweden (42%), Hungary (39%), Norway (37%) and Poland (35%). The countries which have fewer women in ...
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November 7th, 2011
Mariano Rajoy and his centre-right Popular party (PP) are set to win a crushing victory over the incumbent Socialists in the Spanish general election on 20th November, according to the latest opinion poll. The PP is expected to win 46.6% of the votes while the Socialists will receive only 29.9%, said ...
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November 4th, 2011
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, have warned the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, that Greece will not receive a penny more help if the Greek Government does not strictly comply with the agreements reached at last week’s summit. After an emergency meeting between Merkel, Sarkozy, Papandreou and ...
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