The cabin crew from the low-cost airline had planned stoppages for January 10 and 13, but after more than 14 hours of talks the two sides have come to an agreement. Strikes planned for January 10 and 13 by Spanish cabin crew for Ryanair have been called off, after unions […]
The decision heralds the end of 36 years of Socialist Party rule Spain’s far-right party Vox on Wednesday said it will support Juan Manuel Moreno, the Popular Party (PP)’s candidate to replace the Socialist Party (PSOE)’s Susana Díaz at the helm of the Andalusian government. The decision comes after Vox […]
Democracy has declined more in Europe than any other region in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Releasing its statistics for the Democracy Index 2018, the EIU noted a “democratic malaise” felt particularly in western Europe, where the state of democracy has declined for a third consecutive […]
The British Consul will be offering UK nationals the opportunity to ask questions about Brexit in Algorfa, Alicante on 17th January. Continuing the series of events for UK nationals on Living in Spain and Brexit, British Consul Sarah-Jane Morris and her team will be updating residents with the latest information […]
And a British pensioner who doesn’t speak any Spanish found out almost by accident that he’d won €75,000 on Spain’s El Niño lottery, which was drawn on Sunday. The man, in his late 60s who lives in Benijófar on the southern Costa Blanca, was reportedly waiting patiently in the queue […]
The prices of OVER 1,200 pharmacy medicines have been reduced since the start of the new year, cutting the public bill for treatments by an estimated €88 million. In addition, another 497 hospital medicine prices were lowered. Among those that have been reduced are anti-inflammatories, cough mixtures, drugs for osteoarthritis, […]
Unions representing Ryanair’s 1,800 cabin crew in Spain called off the 24-hour strike planned for today but say they will go ahead with planned stoppages this Thursday and Sunday. The unions are demanding local contracts under local law rather than the Irish contracts Ryanair uses widely. The budget carrier has […]
Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo has rejected talk of Spain sharing sovereignty of the territory with Britain after Brexit, saying the concept was “as dead as a dodo”. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in November that Madrid would seek a discussion over joint sovereignty of the Rock, which has […]
Ryanair’s Spanish cabin crew are staging 24 hour strikes on January 8, 10 and 13 Unions USO and Sitcpla say that members are striking over pay and conditions Ryanair says it expects to operate a normal service during the strike tomorrow The unions add they can’t see how the strikes […]
Four people were injured and two-hundred evacuated from the Poseidon Playa Hotel in Benidorm, after a 17th floor fire took place on Saturday 5th January. The incident occurred at approximately 14:30pm after, for unknown reasons, a fire started in of the busiest hotels in Alicante’s Benidorm (Spain). According to the ‘Consorcio […]
Four ‘traffickers’ who allegedly acquired parts of weapons and ‘cannibalised’ them for sale, have been arrested in Seville. The procedure involves using ‘fundamental parts of different firearms, which are subject to strict legal control in Spain’, to create complete weapons. As part of Operation Armstrong, National Police officers seized two […]
