Year: 2020

The first measure adopted by the the new coalition Cabinet, which met yesterday, was a 0.9% rise in pensions, a move that had been on hold until a government could finally be formed. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the new executive wants to quickly make up for lost time, and plans on seeing out its full four-year term, despite lacking a working majority. Sánchez did not go into detail about […]

Corvera Airport, celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow and managing to exceed its target of one million passengers also introducing new national destinations with year round flights to the Canary Islands as well as Barcelona, ??Asturias, Bilbao and Palma. Although the airport is now paying back a small portion of it’s original outlay, month after month it is still losing passengers and in November recorded another fall of 173,000 in comparison […]

Pedro Almodóvar is back in contention at the Oscars for the first time in 16 years after his latest movie Pain and Glory was nominated for Best International Feature Film. It marks the Spanish filmmaker’s first return to the Academy Awards since Talk To Her earned a statuette for best screenplay. The internationally acclaimed director is breaking a long dry spell for the Spanish film industry, which had not had […]

Work has begun to dismantle the toll booths on the road between Alicante and Tarragona after it became toll free at the start of the year. Lane diversions have already begun to be laid out to enable workers to dismantle the pay stations on the AP-7 motorway. The change in status of the road doesn't mean it is now cost free though, as the money for maintenance and repair will […]

The four deputy prime ministers and 18 cabinet members in Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's new government were sworn in yesterday before King Felipe VI at the Zarzuela Palace. The monarch congratulated the MPs and wished them luck, their first meeting is due to take place today. The new government is made up of a coalition of Sánchez’s Socialist PSOE Party and the leftist Unidas Podemos.