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May 15th, 2013
Spanish airports registered 49,419,813 passengers in the first four months of 2013, representing a loss of 8% compared to the same period of 2012. According to data released on Friday by Aena, Madrid’s Barajas airport is one of the hardest hit by the loss of passengers, with a total of 11,967,642 ...
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May 13th, 2013
Vueling lost 19.7 million euros in the first quarter of the year, which is 19.8% more than in the same period of 2012, the airline reported to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) on Thursday. In the first three months of the year, the airline reduced its operating losses from 26.8 ...
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May 1st, 2013
Marbella has been voted Spain’s most-valued beach destination in a study by the firm Oak Power Communication (OPC) which surveyed 630 journalists from around the world - mostly from Germany, England, Eastern European countries, Latin America, France and the United States – who specialise in tourism or who write regularly ...
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March 19th, 2013
The Spanish Prime Minister has assured the members of the International Olympic Committee Evaluation Commission (IOC) that Madrid's bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games would be "an enormous success for Madrid, for Spain, and for the the Olympic Movement in general". Mariano Rajoy said on Monday in Madrid, where the ...
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February 1st, 2013
The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, announced on Tuesday that, in a bid to attract more passengers, railway operators Renfe are to lower the price of their general tickets for journeys on high speed trains (AVE) by 11% from 8th February. In addition, they are to introduce a 10-journey ticket ...
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January 30th, 2013
According to a recent study by auditing and consulting firm PwC and the ULI institute (Urban Land Institute) in which property investors were optimistic, Munich and Berlin are the most attractive real estate markets in Europe. This is the first time two German cities have led the ranking of the ...
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January 16th, 2013
According to recent data compiled by real estate portal, idealista.com, rental prices in Spain declined in the latter stages of 2012. The lowest declines were recorded in Salamanca (-1.2%), Cáceres (-1.5%), Granada (-2.3%), Málaga (-2.7%) and Tarragona (-2.9%), while at the other end of the scale stood the city of Santa ...
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January 14th, 2013
Ten billion euros have been invested in the improvement and modernisation of railway links in Catalonia between 2000 and 2012. Last week, during the inauguration of the Barcelona-Girona-Figueres stretch of the Madrid-French Border AVE high-speed railway line, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, stressed his Government's strong commitment to investment in ...
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November 15th, 2012
At the closing ceremony of the 15th National Conference of the Family Business Institute (IEF) in Barcelona, the Vice-President of the Spanish Government, Minister for the Presidency and Government Spokesperson, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, announced that the Government will approve a Royal Decree-Law on Thursday which will contain the "most ...
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October 5th, 2012
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) parameters, almost all of the Spanish population (94%) are breathing air which can be harmful to their health. European legislation, however, is less strict and according to its parameters 'only' 22% of the Spanish population are being subjected to harmful levels of ...
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