Renfe has announced that its new high-speed service, AVLO, will start commercial circulation next June 23, as reported by the president of the company, IsaÃas Táboas, on the board of directors. The low-cost train was to start its journey initially on April 6, 2020, but had to postpone its premiere due to the health crisis. […]
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The Covid pandemic will freeze wages and increase the pay gap between managers and employees in Spain
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus draws a horizon of stagnation in salary increases in Spain and a greater distance in remuneration between managers and employees base. The pandemic also opens the door to a dual economy, with an extreme impact on some sectors (services, commerce or tourism) and good results for other types […]
Neighbors of Barcelona prepare a collective complaint against Endesa after power cuts in the middle of the cold wave
The Barceloneta Neighbors Association has announced that, next Monday, it will file a collective complaint “against Endesa and the competent Administrations “for” the large number “of people affected by various power outages in the popular Barcelona fishing district. The citizen group has explained that, from today until Friday, it will collect complaints from those injured […]
A court reduces the rent to a tourist apartment company to 50% due to the losses caused by the covid
Taking into account the clause “rebus sic stantibus”, which allows modifying a contract in the event of a sudden and extraordinary change such as a pandemic, the Court of First Instance number 20 of Barcelona cut the rent of 27 properties paid by a specialist company by half in tourist accommodation. After arguing that due […]
The odyssey of those who have not been able to telecommute: “It took longer to arrive than to go to Barcelona”
He has traveled 15 stops on the subway, which today was slower than usual. To this he has added the section from the Moncloa metro to the cafeteria where he works, located in the Chamberà neighborhood. Normally it takes an hour to go through all these stages, but today its times have been extended. His […]
The Generalitat reinvents its airports to save them from the economic crisis
Without resigning itself to seeing how all Catalan airports are dangerously close to zero activity due to the effects of the coronavirus on global and regional air traffic, the Generalitat has promoted a series of measures to provide a second life to the airport facilities that it currently manages. The first one, the Lleida-Alguaire airport, […]
The Generalitat demands money from Pedro Sánchez for the stigmatized neighborhood of La Mina in Barcelona
The Generalitat tries to get the Executive of Pedro Sánchez to invest to unblock the operation to relocate dozens of residents of La Mina and demolish the most ramshackle block in the neighborhood, in the humble suburbs of Barcelona. The plan to demolish the building of the Venus street and displacing its inhabitants is budgeted […]
Precariousness, agglomeration and hope in Florida
In Florida, cradle of international footballers like Jordi Alba and Adama Traoré, the current maximum reference is a Catalan boy of Moroccan descent who has become the voice of the street after having entered and left juvenile centers. At 21, the rapper Morad has put the Blocks of Florida, an iconic place in the most […]
A Barcelona municipality stands up to Amazon together with Correos
The Viladecans Town Hall (Barcelona) and Post They have teamed up to create their own trading platform with weapons similar to those of the American giant Amazon. Buy08840 (name that refers to the postal code of the municipality) is a public initiative and a pioneer in Catalonia with the image and likeness of the large […]
Urban fiascos in Barcelona: from Eurovegas to the Llobregat Delta plan
The Generalitat and several mayors of the PSC wished to house on land of the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park the leisure and game project Eurovegas, but the American tycoon Sheldon Adelson opted for Madrid after proposing, without success, to the Catalan authorities the transfer of the El Prat airport and the demolition of the stadium […]
