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December 21st, 2009
One in three Spanish (31.5%), aged over 16 years, admits having smoked in the past year, either regularly or occasionally, according to provisional data from the European Health Survey published in Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE). This reflects a "slight increase" in the consumption of tobacco on the latest available ...
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December 23rd, 2009
Tomorrow a new suite of property laws from the Spanish Ministry of Housing comes into force, the law is being nicknamed the 'eviction express', and will improve the "legal certainty" of owners of rental property "without prejudicing the rights of tenants". The new law aims to promote a broader rental, and ...
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December 28th, 2009
Nearly one million Spanish are now older than eighty-five years, representing some 2.1% of the population, according to the latest municipal census released today by the National Statistics Institute (INE). In total there are 46,661,950 people in Spain, of whom 989,047 are aged 85 or over - 679,699 women and
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January 4th, 2010
A woman will pay a 3,756 euro fine for feeding pigeons around her building in Malaga, after a complaint from neighbours about the mess caused by the birds on the front of their building, located in the historic centre of the city. According to the newspaper Malaga Today, this is
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January 5th, 2010
In Spain, it is traditional for gifts to be given to children on the night of 5th or morning of the 6th of January. Like Santa Claus, children will often send a letter to the kings asking for the gifts they want and indicating why they deserve to receive gifts. ...
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January 8th, 2010
José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero wants the new EU economic strategy, tentatively known as 'Strategy 2020', to be adhered to resolutely. The Spanish Prime Minister said today that sanctions for Member States, which do not meet the objectives set, are not currently binding and
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January 11th, 2010
April 3 should be marked on the calendar of both TV operators and TV viewers. This is the day when a final farewell will be given to analogue broadcasts. After several years of testing, the full transition from analogue to the new digital terrestrial television (TDT) will take place in ...
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January 11th, 2010
The minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, today announced that Spain had surpassed the figure of 4,000 transplants for the first time in 2009 as well as receiving 1,600 annual donations, thereby increasing the transplant
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January 25th, 2010
More than 50,000 people suffer a myocardial infarction each year in Spain and around one million suffer from chronic ischemic heart disease. Experts, who have participated in a meeting to discuss cardiovascular problems, have warned that
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February 1st, 2010
In a recent study by the European Central Bank (ECB), the Spanish population have more credit cards per capita, but use them less, than other European Union countries. In 2006, an average of 23.7 card transactions were made per person, while
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