Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez confirmed Deal with the Basque Nationalist Party and the Catalan Republican Left will ensure that the executive’s emergency powers for dealing with the coronavirus crisis remain in place until June 21
Élisabeth Borne. the French minister of Ecological Transition has shocked her Spanish counterparts recommending her compatriots NOT to travel to Spain for their holidays.......... “The Spanish tourist industry has taken a serious over the last few months and will take a least two years to recover, this is the last thing we need to hear” said the Minister for Travel and Tourism in Spain. During the weekly televised press conference he has held since the coronavirus crisis began, Spanish Prime Min...
WASTEWATER in Calpe sewers is to be analysed to detect the presence, concentration and evolution of SARS-Co-2 which causes Covid-19. Samples are currently being taken and tested over a two-week period with findings made available to the Health authorities.
La Nucía and La Marina Baixa have gone to PHASE 1 and these are the new measures you need to know (effective from Monday, May 11) Shops: Opening of shops of less than 400 m2. The previous appointment is eliminated, but the capacity is limited to 30%. Markets: Outdoor on public roads with distance restrictions and capacity limitation. The time will be the strictly necessary for the purchase. Meetings: Meetings of a maximum of 10 people (friends, neighbours, family, etc.), inside and outside the h...
A nervous-looking driver in Spain´s Costa Blanca area was pulled up by the Guardia Civil, and was found to have thousands of euros on him Guardia Civil officers stopped the man´s car at a routine stop in the town of Albatera to check on why he was on the road during the country´s lockdown laws.
A breakthrough by a team of top British scientists means that, by June, people could be able to reliably test whether they have developed immunity to the virus - and then be allowed to return to work and socialise as normal. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The number of daily coronavirus deaths registered in Spain fell to 399 on Monday, according to the latest figures supplied by the Health Ministry. That is the lowest figure seen since March 22, when there were 394.
With this terrible global pandemic now hitting almost every country on earth I chatted with Terry Whitehead to discover how he has been coping Overnight the 285 new deaths in Germany - surpassed the previous record of 266 last Friday - Spain started to return to work on Monday as non-essential workers such as factory and construction personnel were allowed to resume their jobs after a two-week ban.
In Spain The Government has decided to prolong the state of alarm until April 26 , during which 47 million citizens must remain confined to their homes to stop the spread of the coronavirus. .The data says that the coronavirus is more contagious and more lethal than the flu , which is estimated to kill 0.13% or 0.16% of patients ...... In the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson has gone into intensive care. Humiliated Nicola Sturgeon admitted that the resignation of Scotland's chief medical officer...
With this terrible global pandemic now hitting almost every country on earth I chatted with Terry Whitehead to discover how he has been coping . Agriculture is one of the basic pillars to ensure the proper functioning of the distribution chain that ensures citizen food at a time when the population remains confined to their homes.
With this terrible global pandemic now hitting almost every country on earth I chatted with Terry Whitehead to discover how he has been coping. At least 60 priests have died in Italy amid the country's coronavirus pandemic as the Pope called on them to 'have courage' to attend the sick.
With this terrible global pandemic now hitting almost every country on earth I chatted with Terry Whitehead to discover how he has been coping. We use the word 'lockdown' but it is more a question of authorities making us change our ways. We looked at the situation here in Spàin with aspects to the fore including how the religious festivals have been affected. Needless to say we looked at how it appears locally as most of the Madrid and Barcelona news coverage has instigated a lot of our worries...
Rob Daniels joined me to discuss The Champions League, Liverpool, Corona Virus, Ronaldinho, Paraguay etc...
With a month and a half to go before the Easter break, which traditionally represents a peak in visitors and expenditure, there has so far been little change to tourist flows to the Canary Islands despite four confirmed cases of the coronavirus and a hotel in lockdown in Adeje, on Tenerife island. Vince is joined by Terry Whitehead and Emilio Bellagios
A Spanish carnival parade 'commemorating' the Holocaust with lingerie-clad Nazi officers and dancing concentration camp victims has been condemned as 'vile and disgusting' by Jewish groups.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously on Thursday that Spain’s deportation of two sub-Saharan migrants, who jumped the border fence separating Morocco from the Spanish exclave city of Melilla in 2014, with around 70 others, did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. Spain is failing to address inequality, and some policies are keeping people in poverty by design. That’s according to Philip Alston, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extreme poverty and h...
Emmanuel Macron is leading demands for the UK to be forced to commit to mirroring EU rules on employment and the environment forever if it wants a post-Brexit free trade deal with the bloc. PUBLIC cooperation helped police take 34 suspected thieves off the streets of Alicante city last month. The majority of the offences committed related to thefts of vehicles and break-ins at homes and businesses. IMAGES of a young British adrenalin junkie risking his life to scale a Benidorm skyscraper to get ...
THE Ministry of Health in Spain have revealed that discrimination against people from Asia has increased since the outbreak of coronavirus. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a book no Gerona bookstore wants to sell. All have refused to stock it when the two distributors working with the publisher have offered it. Gambling in Spain........and for people to see her petition on Change.org. It’s called “My son is a gambling add...
With just a few weeks to go before the end of the main olive harvest, cooperatives still have olive oil left over from the previous harvest. The difficulty of storing the surplus has meant that they have had to sell this olive oil at a low price to make space for the new product. With UK set to leave EU on Friday and Nicola Sturgeon ordering officials to fly the EU flags ..............Irish PM Leo Varadkar said the EU would have the 'upper hand' in post-Brexit trade talks, which formally begin a...
In Spain, Vox's leader, Santiago Abascal, on Monday justified the parental veto – the prerogative of parents to censor content from complementary teachings taught during school hours............... Women who came to Spanish soccer's Super Cup matches alone were able to mix with the crowd during the matches at King Abdullah Stadium in Yeda, Saudi Arabia.....what's it really all about, Alfie? The regional government of Spain’s Balearic Islands on Friday approved a law that cracks down on so-called...
A MAN has been arrested for gender-violence after threatening his wife at a public swimming pool in Manacor in Mallorca, Spain..................... The Department of Comprehensive Attention to Gender Violence also stated at the end of last year, the Balearic Islands led the ranking of women who were abused in Spain................................................................. plus loys more....
Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a fictional figure originating in Western Christian culture EMPLOYMENT figures published by the Ministry of Employment in Spain has revealed that the rate of employment in 2019 has increased by a welcome 2.02% The Valencian orchard is unique. Formed from the system of ditches that the Muslims bequeathed, it has been maintained over the centuries despite the pressure of the 1.2 million inhab...
n Spain...... income tax for those earning more than €130,000 a year will rise by two percentage points, and by four percentage points for those who earn more than.......... An environmentalists’ idea of both heaven and hell can be found in a lake 10 kilometers to the south of Valencia in eastern Spain. La Albufera nature reserve is a freshwater lagoon and estuary that is highly valued for its expanse of land and biodiversity,........... Comfort Diya, 9, slipped in the pool and drifted towards t...
An incredible 109 new Tory MPs a descended on Parliament after the 'blue tsunami' of the election. Triumphant Conservatives reported for duty in Westminster after demolishing Labour's 'Red Wall' of Leave-backing strongholds in the North, Midlands and Wales
Greta Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist, arrived in Madrid on Friday morning to participate in a march in the Spanish capital, which is currently hosting the United Nations climate summit known as COP25. Spain will press ahead with the creation of a tax on certain digital services as soon as a government is formed, according to sources from the caretaker executive. This so-called “Google tax” could, however, raise the ire of the United States, which has already threatened France with ...
A POLICE investigation into a robbery in Denia led to the bust of a crime gang operating all over the province. Police have linked the organisation to more than 30 cases of house break-ins and violent thefts in areas of Alicante Spanish Big Brother has come under fire after it emerged one of the show's contestants ........... With more migrants arriving on the beach in Gran Canaria............More than 27,000 migrants have arrived in Spain this year........ After the London Bridge terror attack....
n the UK .....Jeremy Corbyn defiantly dodged apologising over Labour's anti-Semitism crisis today after Britain's chief rabbi warned he is not fit to be PM. John McDonnell refused to rule out restoring the punishing secondary striking rights which crippled Britain's public services in the 1970s. In an interview that will send a chill up the spines of voters who endured the gruelling Winter of Discontent 40 years ago,....... I remember the 70s. The Marxist union leaders used ordinary workers for ...
I’ve always voted for the PP, but Rajoy didn’t know anything,” he says, in reference to the conservative Popular Party (PP) and its former prime minister, Support for independence in Catalonia continues to fall, while the distance between those in favor and those against secession from Spain is growing. A team of 69 donkeys makes up the donkey-ride service in Mijas (Málaga), and it is one of the key tourist activities in the area. ............... POLICE have arrested a 30-year old Romanian woman...
Forming a government in Spain will be more complicated than ever after Sunday's election : big gains for the far right and left the winning Socialist Party (PSOE) with 120 seats, 56 short of a parliamentary majority. The leader Ciudadanos (Citizens), Albert Rivera, resigned from his role Having picked up 57 seats in April 28 poll, Ciudadanos fell to just 10 seats on Sunday The PP and far-right Vox made major gains. As a preliminary step, Vox wants the immediate devolution of powers over educatio...
The latest survey shows the Socialist Party (PSOE) winning the November 10 election with 27.3% of the vote and 121 seats, two fewer than it earned on April 28. ................ Five of the six men accused of gang raping a 14-year-old teenager in Manresa in Barcelona province have been convicted of sexual abuse. The government of Spain’s eastern Valencia region is set to ban gendered school uniforms. .......... arguing that gendered school uniforms violate “students’ individual freedoms and right...
