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May 19th, 2010
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has acknowledged today that the government does have plans to raise taxes, however, he has stated that any tax reform has no date of implementation and has guaranteed that the tax hikes will only affect "the very rich, not the middle class." In a ...
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May 12th, 2010
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, today announced a series of measures to reduce the public deficit to 3% by 2013, including a reduction in public sector staff pay by an average of 5% in 2010, the elimination of the 2,500 euro birth allowance from 2011 and a ...
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March 17th, 2010
The European Commission (EC) has recommended today that the Spanish government takes more strict control on autonomous municipal spending to prevent municipalities and autonomous regions undermining the state's efforts to cut the budget deficit and get its finances back in order. The EU's
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March 10th, 2010
The Minister for Labour, Celestino Corbacho, yesterday recommended that all workers should have a private pension plan in place if they want to offset the revenue losses that will occur when receiving a standard state pension in retirement. There were therefore some cries of double standards when, during
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February 22nd, 2010
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said today that unions have an "absolute and fully legitimate constitutional right" to demonstrate against the government's proposal to reform the pension system, and insisted that the government's objective is to achieve a national agreement that includes the trade
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February 9th, 2010
The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, announced today that there will be an extension of another six months to the aid benefit of 426 euros paid to those unemployed who have exhausted their contributory and welfare benefits. So far the aid has benefited around 300,000 people, and it is ...
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February 4th, 2010
The Deputy Prime Minister, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, and the Minister for Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, have both publicly spoken about "misinterpretations" regarding plans to reform the Spanish pension system. Yesterday, the government
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February 1st, 2010
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said today that the Government's proposal to raise the retirement age to 67 years is "reasonable" and there are similar debates in "all European countries". He also promised that any decision on pensions
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January 28th, 2010
The European Commission has today called on Spain to amend its tax legislation rules that require individuals and entities not resident in the country to appoint a tax representative within the Spanish territory. Brussels believes that certain requirements of the Spanish
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January 27th, 2010
A farmer from Castril in Granada has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for the poisoning of a female osprey; the osprey was released in 2007 under the Andalucian Ministry of Environment's Reintroduction Program. The ruling was accepted by all parties, and
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