Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists are heading for a heavy electoral defeat in the country’s most populous region, Andalusia, on Sunday, highlighting the magnitude of the challenge he faces in winning his re-election in next year’s national vote. Sanchez and his government are struggling to cope with the economic consequences of Russia’s invasion of […]
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The Canary Islands And Madrid Concentrate The Nights In Hotels At The Start Of 2021
The restrictions due to the pandemic, both outside and within our borders, are reducing the occupancy of hotels to a minimum. Overnight stays in this type of establishment fell 86% in February, similar to January, up to 2.3 million nights. Only 16.4% of the places offered were covered, with an annual decrease of 67.6%. The […]
The Chamber Of Barcelona Claims That 25% Of Direct Government Aid To Companies And The Self-employed By The COVID Go To Catalonia
The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce ask the government that destined to Cataluña a quarter of direct aid to Business Y autonomous affected by the restrictions decreed to contain the Covid pandemic. The aid plan approved by the Minister council last week is divided into 3.000 million euros for the financial debt restructuring fund, 1.000 million […]
Antonio Villar: “I am afraid that the pandemic will leave an important mark on the Covid generation”
Antonio Villar (1954) is Professor of Economics at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville, Doctor of Economics from the University of Alicante and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He affirms that this crisis has exposed the health system and structural weaknesses that “will have to be faced.” On the impact on […]
Flamenco fashion reinvents itself to overcome its second year of drought
Spring is approaching and for the second consecutive year it seems that there will be no fairs or pilgrimages in Andalusia due to the pandemic. A dramatic situation for flamenco fashion and all the crafts that it entails. The sector brings together around 500 companies and firms that have seen their activity stop overnight, with […]
The great crater of tourism: 72,000 million euros less in the worst year in history
The tourism data for December 2020 published by the INE confirm what was already known: 2020 was a catastrophic year for the sector in Spain. The arrival of 648,669 international tourists throughout the last month of the year represented a drop of 84.9% compared to the same month of the previous year. In total, the […]
María Jesús Montero accuses Madrid of unleashing “capital flight” in other communities due to its “fiscal dumping”
The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has hardened his speech against what he calls the “fiscal dumping” of the Community of Madrid. In an intervention in the Congress of Deputies, Montero has accused the regional government of Isabel Diaz Ayuso to unleash “capital flight” in other autonomous communities and to the Popular Party to […]
The other pandemic: two and a half years lost in Andalusia in employment due to Covid-19
Two and a half years lost. That is what the coronavirus pandemic in Andalusia has meant, in terms of employment. And only in year I of the Covid. According to the latest Active Population Survey (EPA) published by the Andalusian Institute of Statistics, the community closed the year 2020 with a 907,200 unemployed, a figure […]
The port of Algeciras exceeds the Covid and moves 107 million tons of goods
In the midst of so much bad news, in a scenario in which the Covid devastates practically everything, there is a giant that insists, despite the historical (train) and current (pandemic) obstacles, to show its strength. The port of Algeciras, the first in the national system and the fourth in Europe, has survived the complex […]
Tourism in the Canary Islands collapses in high season, while Catalonia and Madrid disappear as destinations
The month of November has also been devastating for tourism in Spain: the arrival of 456,956 international visitors has been registered, 90.2% less than in the same month of 2019, and total spending has decreased by 90 , 8%, to stay at 467 million euros, as shown by the sectorial data provided this Tuesday by […]