Neither Black Friday nor the Christmas campaign managed to encourage commerce last November, at the height of the second wave of the pandemic. Retail sales fell 5.8% in the aforementioned month compared to the same month in 2019. It, even though Spain was in the middle of the Black Friday campaign. Compared with the previous […]
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The Balearic Islands were the most expensive national destination in summer and the fourth least visited by Spanish travelers
The reopening of the borders in summer had very moderate effects in the Balearic Islands compared to the rest of the autonomous communities. The archipelago came out the third quarter of the year being the fourth community by the tail in the percentage of visits by national residents, and that despite the fact that this […]
Catalonia reduces the opening of bars and restaurants to mornings and noon
A few days ago the Generalitat supported a campaign by the Gremi de Restauració de Barcelona to encourage consumption in bars and restaurants during the Christmas holidays. However, this support for restoration, for practical purposes, only lasted until the health data allowed it. From Monday until January 11, the bars and restaurants may only serve […]
The Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Madrid and Catalonia, the autonomous regions most affected by the crisis, with GDP falls of over 13%
The Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) foresees that the island regions of Balearic and Canary Islands, the Community of Madrid and Catalonia be the autonomies with biggest drop in GDP in 2020, thus becoming the most affected by the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it is estimated that Baleares is the community 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 […]
Madrid continues to be the most competitive community in Spain and Catalonia “confirms its stagnation”
The Community of Madrid continues to be the most competitive region in Spain, followed by Navarra and the Basque Country. And in fourth place Catalonia remains, although, according to the Regional Competitiveness Report published this Thursday by the General Council of Economists, this community has stagnated. “Although the competitiveness of Catalonia does not fall, it […]
The Government warns about the “indiscriminate” use of antigens as a “passport” to Christmas gatherings
With the arrival of the Christmas holidays and the possible sale of antigen tests in pharmacies, they will have the option of taking the test before going to a lunch or dinner with the family. However, the Generalitat wanted to make it clear that these tests do not imply a “passport” to be able to […]
Catalan farmers denounce that the Government’s “inaction” may lead to the closure of farms
The “lack of investment” added to a “high degree of non-compliance with pending and regulatory actions for months” by the Catalan Administration, motivated both “by the pre-electoral climate” and “by the circumstances derived from the pandemic”, has put the Catalan livestock sector in check. This is how Unio de Pagesos (UP) assures it, who has […]
Coronavirus raises costs without help for disabled families
“Nothing is known about these kids like my son. They are totally invisible. We were aware that we were forgotten, but with the pandemic the maximum has been reached.” Montserrat she is the mother of Pol, a 22-year-old young man, affected by cerebral palsy and spastic tetraplegia. It is 98% dependent. “He cannot dress or eat […]
Silence in the karaokes due to the coronavirus
The entire leisure sector has a sword of Damocles over it with the health crisis caused by the coronavirus. The time restrictions and closures that these stores have suffered have led many entrepreneurs to permanently close the doors of their businesses and others to live with the noose around their necks. A limiting situation that […]