The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, announced today in the Senate than in the horizon of 2024 his department will conduct a stable investment effort in Andalusia in order to carry out priority projects in infrastructure that will increase road safety and convenience of citizens. On the subject of roads, during... 

The reason is that diesel vehicles cause more pollution than other vehicles. Enviromentalists have also been voicing concern about th effects of the drought. The Spanish Government has revealed that it wants to increase the tax on diesel vehicles because they ‘contaminate more’. The change will be a modification... 

The General IMIE Index, an indicator created by Tinsa to analyse the evolution of house prices in the Spanish market, increased its year-on-year decline in February, falling by 9.5% to 1664 points, returning to the levels of 2004. The cumulative decline from the top of the market in December 2007 increased to exactly... 

Cataluña makes the front pages with a co-payment health charge El Mundo reports that evidence has been found against Iñaki Urdangarin in a computer which had been thrown into the rubbish. The front man for the accounts in Switzerland hid the computer before a search of his home. It also contains the communications... 

As Público is no longer producing a print edition, we are replacing it in our paper review at Typically Spanish with the Catalan paper, La Vanguardia. La Vanguardia today The statements made in court over the weekend by the Duke of Palma lead the papers. El Mundo notes that the Attorney General, Torres-Dulce, has... 

The economy and Brussels inflexibility on the Spanish deficit lead many of the papers. ABC today El Mundo says Brussels and the ECB are inflexible with the Spanish fiscal adjustment. The European Commission is demanding that Rajoy presents the 2012 budget, and Draghi has warned ‘relaxing the deficit would lead to... 

The economy dominates the papers in Spain today. Publico today El País headlines that Brussels will allow small reductions in the objectives for the public deficit in Spain. The paper says the European Commission wants several countries to apply. The European Executive sees keeping the current ‘unreal’ targets... 

Olli Rehn has dismissed the requests made by Mariano Rajoy Olli Rehn – EFE Brussels has made it clear to Spain that it wants them to publish their budgets for this year before it enters into any discussion on relaxing deficit targets. Mariano Rajoy had been hoping to get the budget deficit for the end of this... 

TWO men who lost their lives today in a light aircraft crash in the Granada area have been identified, although their names have not been revealed until their family members have been contacted. Emergency services say the victims are a 57-year-old man from Murcia and his 60-year-old companion from Orihuela (Alicante). They... 

Spain’s Prado Museum put the earliest known copy of the “Mona Lisa” on display Tuesday for the first time since restoration work revealed it was likely painted by one of Leonardo da Vinci’s apprentices as he worked on the original. Throughout the day, a crowd gathered around the painting, which... 

The economy and the students in Valencia lead La Razón today El País headlines that Mariano Rajoy is to ask Brussels shortly for a reduction in the deficit target. The Government want to see a target over 5%, compared to the 4.4% for 2012. The paper says the promised cut of 25 billion will end up at about 15. ABC... 

A villager of Nieles in the Alpujarras (Cástaras), Antonio Mayor, has found in his garden a giant sweet potato weighing fifteen kilos. Antonio has brought the awesome sweet potato into the corner of the bar of the pensioners  village so that residents, tourists and visitors can photograph it. Share this:EmailFacebook Read More →