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June 23rd, 2011
The National Statistics Institute, on behalf of the Ministry of Economy, said yesterday that the "most common wage" lies at "about 15,500 euros" per annum. This equates to around 1,000 euros a month. The '1,000 euro wage' is a reality already recognised by government authorities, reports Cinco Dias. The Annual Wage Structure Survey, ...
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June 16th, 2011
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, José Manuel Campa, stressed that Spain is not in favour of any private sector involvement in the rescue of Greece that is not "strictly voluntary" and has said that clarifying this issue would help allay the fears and misgivings of the ratings agencies, who ...
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June 15th, 2011
The cyber hackers group Anonymous perpetrated revenge on Sunday against the recent arrests of its leaders in Spain. In the early hours of Sunday morning they attacked the website of the National Police leaving it inaccessible for several hours. The Anonymous cyber network claimed the attack on the website of the ...
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June 3rd, 2011
Loterías y Apuestas del Estados (LAE) Chairman, Aurelio Martinez announced the proposed privatisation at a conference in Madrid. The public company will begin trading in November and plans to privatise 30% of its capital hoping to raise up to €7.5 billion, the actual figure will depend on the final price set ...
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June 2nd, 2011
The Spanish Federation of Vegetable Producers and Exporters (FEPEX) have asked the Government to press the EU to compensate them for goods not sold as a result of the cucumber crisis. Exporters believe that the health problem is in Hamburg (Germany), which is where the contaminated items from Spain, Holland ...
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May 5th, 2011
Reducing the speed limit on motorways to 110 km per hour was a bold decision when it was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 4th March. Nearly two months later, the Government claims to have reached the desired objective of reducing fuel consumption. The Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, ...
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May 4th, 2011
Never before has the Spanish Official State Bulletin (BOE) devoted as many pages as in the past three years, to the publishing of insolvency statements. As if it were an obituary column, the BOE were receiving dozens of notifications daily from companies facing bankruptcy. The number of companies being declared ...
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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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April 29th, 2011
Spain’s 2011 Semana Santa (Easter Week) saw traffic fatalities fall below 40 "for the first time in the history of accidents in Spain - a goal that seemed impossible years ago”, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Between 3 p.m. on Friday 15th April and ...
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April 26th, 2011
Oceanographers from the Department of the Environment have this week, identified a specimen of Humpback (Megaptera novaengliae), also known as humpback whale, and six specimens of common finback whales, swimming off the coast of Valencia, near Sagunto. According to a Government statement, this finding was reported by a fisherman in the ...
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