The public order crisis that Catalonia has experienced in the last two weeks has put the business sector on alert. If yesterday it transpired that more than a hundred associations, headed by the employer’s association Work Promotion, finalize a manifesto and a unitary act to demand that the administrations exercise “their democratic authority and responsibility […]
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The Port of Barcelona reduces its profits by 63% due to the pandemic and sees its income fall to 2006 levels
“We have not sought the best results in history, but resilience.” This is how the president of the Barcelona’s port, MercÚ Conesa, the economic balance of Catalan infrastructure for 2020. Despite the fact that the Port Authority it closed the year with a profit of 17 million euros, the figure is 63% less than the […]
Catalonia will allow the opening of shopping centers with limitations after being closed for almost two months due to the coronavirus
After more than seven weeks closed in Catalonia, the malls and the stores of more than 400 square meters will be able to open from March 1. The opening, however, will continue to have limitations: from Monday to Friday and with 30% of the capacity. This is the main novelty of the modifications communicated today […]
Cellnex, 25,000 million purchases in just 14 months: “We are the largest investors in Europe in telecommunications infrastructures”
Cellnex continues its incessant investment rhythm, which is close to 37,000 million euros since the birth of the company in 2014, which reached 16,000 million in the 2020 financial year and which continues with the operation announced this Friday: the acquisition in Poland of Polkomtel Infrastruktura for 1,600 million euros. “We are the company that […]
The Barcelona City Council requests the pardon for Pablo Hasel with division in the Government of Ada Colau and the PSC
The plenary session of Barcelona’s town hall ask the government of Pedro Sánchez who processes the pardon of rapper Pablo Hasel, sentenced to nine months in prison for the crimes of glorifying terrorism and insults against Corona and the institutions of Condition. The proposition of Barcelona in Common, which also demanded the repeal of the […]
The independence movement fails in its attempt to control the Catalan employer Pimec
Continuity has imposed itself on the rupture and the second great battle posed by the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) for control of business organizations has not resulted in the success of 2019 in the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, when the list of Joan Canadell [hoy diputado electo de Junts per Catalunya en el Parlament] he […]
Garamendi explodes: he says that it is “fascism” to encourage people to destroy the street and demands solidarity with the affected businesses
The president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE), Antonio Garamendi, has stated that it is “fascism” to encourage people to go out on the streets and destroy them, according to what he pointed out in an interview on Antena 3 after being asked about the altercations in different Spanish cities in protest against […]
The Catalan tax hell
Catalonia will continue to be a fiscal hell. These words were spoken by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel DÃaz Ayuso at the delivery of the Best Entrepreneurs of Madrid awards organized and Telva magazine. The competition, always healthy, that the two richest communities in Spain have maintained (they represent 40% of the […]
Ayuso says that companies are fleeing Catalonia, where “the freedom of families and companies is trampled on”
President Isabel DÃaz Ayuso took advantage of her intervention in the Awards for the Best Entrepreneurs of Madrid, awarded by Actualidad Económica and Telva, to remind that free societies must recognize the “act of courage” that being a businessman supposes, “without falling into the old political temptation to control or direct anyone”. This vague and […]
Sants Market: from shopping Saturday to vows Sunday
The Sants Market it closes its doors on Saturday afternoon and does not open until Monday morning. But this week, Sunday was not a day off for the activity inside this municipal facility, built at the beginning of the 20th century in the popular Barcelona neighborhood. The modernist style building, remodeled in 2014, is one […]