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May 18th, 2011
In April AENA's airports recorded the largest monthly passenger increase in the last decade. It claims passenger traffic grew by 20.3% over the same month in 2010, to 17,374,989 passengers. Last year (when Easter fell in March) traffic had fallen by 8% as a result of disruption to ...
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May 11th, 2011
Seve Ballesteros, golfing legend, and one of the most gifted players the sport has ever seen, died on Saturday, aged 54, after a long battle with cancer. His funeral will take place at the San Pedro parish church on Wednesday, in his home village of Pedrena in Cantabria. The Ballesteros family say ...
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May 3rd, 2011
Brussels is finding it hard to believe that the muscular actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually aspiring to continue his political career as President of the EU, thus occupying a place alongside Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in the formal conclaves of the EU-27. News that the actor of Austrian origin, has ...
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January 18th, 2011
Police in Madrid have dismantled what they called the "largest and most sophisticated cocaine laboratory in Europe" known to date and arrested 25 people, according to a statement released today. Anti-drug officers confiscated 300 kilograms of cocaine, 2 million euros in cash, 470 mobile phones as well as weapons and luxury ...
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November 24th, 2010
Spanish drivers are the least fuel-efficient out of all of the main motoring countries in Europe, a survey has announced. According to car company Fiat, motorists in Britain were the most fuel efficient, driving at around 62% of possible fuel efficiency, beating drivers in Spain, France, Germany, Italy.
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November 15th, 2010
A planned summit between European and Middle Eastern leaders has been postponed for a second time because of the stalemate in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, officials from Spain said today. The summit of the Union for the Mediterranean had tentatively been
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July 26th, 2010
US First Lady Michelle Obama and one of her two daughters will take a summer break in Spain, a White House source said Monday. Mother and daughter will spend their holiday in the southern holiday resort of Marbella on a "private visit in the company of old friends," the source ...
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July 23rd, 2010
Early results from the EU stress tests on the financial systems of European member states, indicate that all primary Spanish banks have passed the test and that the banks now have enough capital reserve to overcome a situation that would affect their profits, for example if the current economic issues ...
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July 21st, 2010
Figures show that 15.8% of the entire workforce in Spain are not of Spanish nationality, the highest percentage in Europe, compared with 9.2% in Germany, 9% in Italy and 8% in the UK. In 2008, Spain was easily the most favoured destination for
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July 20th, 2010
Spanish Police have dismantled an international network of digital TV pirates that offered access to all channels in Europe - 27 people have been arrested in Spain so far, with another 77 facing charges and the investigation continuing abroad through Europol. Spain is said to be a pioneer in investigations ...
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