Year: 2020

MW it's been revealed the Spanish State has more people on it’s payroll than the number employed in the private sector. Including the employed, the unemployed and state pensioners, the government is responsible for salaries and social payments to 700,000 people more than all of those who are employed in private commerce and industry. This has gradually developed in the last ten years when the situation was just the opposite, […]

Spain’s coalition government have announced a plan to give civil servants a two percent pay raise backdated to Jan. 1. Regional Policy Minister Carolina Darias said the pay hike, which unions had requested prior to the announcement of PSOE Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s cabinet, will be introduced as soon as possible. The measure will benefit 2.5 million public sector workers.

Police have arrested five Brits and are looking for another one after seizing three tonnes of cannabis resin during a raid off Costa del Sol. Detectives said the drugs were due to be taken to a pleasure port in the holiday resort of Fuengirola, southern Spain, before being smuggled into the UK. Four of the suspects were held after being caught transferring the cannabis from a Zodiac-type semi-rigid inflatable to […]

Two of the nine Catalan separatist leaders jailed in Spain last year over a failed 2017 independence bid will soon be granted a 48-hour release from prison. Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart to nine years each behind bars in October after convicting them of sedition over their role in organising a banned secession referendum in October 2017 which was followed by a short-lived declaration of independence. […]

Barcelona City Hall has officially declared a climate emergency, announcing a sweeping range of measures to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The measures aim to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by two million tons from 1992 levels, principally by restricting traffic in the city. To achieve this goal, the local government will invest €563 million in the plan until 2025. Barcelona is the first big Spanish city to back […]