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The collapse of the ‘riders’ platforms aggravates the damage to the hospitality industry due to restrictions in Catalonia

The collapse of the ‘riders’ platforms aggravates the damage to the hospitality industry due to restrictions in Catalonia

  Part of the Catalan restaurants try to survive the closure decreed by the Generalitat by cooking takeaway dishes. However, hoteliers and entities consulted warn that they have encountered two inconveniences that have increased the loss of customers, extended in itself by the prohibition of serving inside the premises for three weeks due to the […]

Thermomix takes Lidl’s kitchen robot to court

Thermomix takes Lidl’s kitchen robot to court

Starting this Tuesday, the Mercantile Court number 5 of Barcelona will be the scene of a legal battle over kitchen robots. But not because of its effectiveness in making succulent stews, but because of the permits to sell an electrical appliance of these characteristics in Spain. The Vorwerk business group, which has the Spanish patent, […]

Six regional governments have already decided to freeze their salaries, contrary to the rise of the central Executive

Six regional governments have already decided to freeze their salaries, contrary to the rise of the central Executive

The autonomous governments of Andalusia, Aragón, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and Madrid have already communicated that the salaries for 2021 of the senior positions of their Executives will not experience any change with respect to those of 2020, in contrast to the salary increase of 0 , 9% that the Government of […]

Money from the ‘correbous’ to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus crisis

Money from the ‘correbous’ to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus crisis

Forced to alter or suspend their patron saint festivities due to the coronavirus crisis, several Catalan municipalities have canceled the traditional ones this year correbous and they have allocated the budget items for bullfighting festivities (which amount to 850,000 euros per year throughout the community, according to animal groups) to measures against the effects of […]

El Prat Airport: waiting for Cercanías a decade later

El Prat Airport: waiting for Cercanías a decade later

Green light upon arrival of the train at terminal T1 of the El Prat airport. The Minister council has authorized this week to Adif the tender for the works of the second phase of construction of the new railway access to the terminal for a value of 73.7 million euros and an execution period of […]

Education, Equality, Defense … These are the Budgets for 2021 item by item

Education, Equality, Defense … These are the Budgets for 2021 item by item

Today the draft law of the General State Budgets for the year 2021 has been presented, those that should promote the economic recovery after the pandemic. This document includes the announced tax increases such as personal income tax on incomes greater than 200,000 euros or the so-called green taxation, with which the Executive estimates that […]

The Generalitat promotes a ‘Catalan NASA’ to put data satellites into orbit

The Generalitat promotes a ‘Catalan NASA’ to put data satellites into orbit

 Despite the fact that the management of the coronavirus pandemic should invite you to keep your feet on the ground, the Generalitat has the stars on its horizon. That is why it presented a Catalan space agency with the aim of promoting the strategic telecommunications sector by investing 2.5 million this year and next to […]

González does not understand the state of alarm approved by Pedro Sánchez and believes that the Budgets are born out of date

González does not understand the state of alarm approved by Pedro Sánchez and believes that the Budgets are born out of date

  The ex-president Felipe González criticized in the I International Expansion Forum the management of the pandemic by the central government and the autonomous communities. With measured words and courage not to offend the rulers –“I would not like to be in the engine room now“-, the former socialist leader stated that he does not […]

Tourism estimates that 9 million tests would be needed to reactivate Valencian airports

Tourism estimates that 9 million tests would be needed to reactivate Valencian airports

The opening of international corridors in the Valencian Community in the midst of a pandemic would require the completion of nine million tests at Alicante and Valencia airports between November 2020 and September 2021, half for visitors entering and the other half for those leaving. A study prepared by the Hosbec employer association, in collaboration […]

They create a sustainable violin without wood from endangered species

They create a sustainable violin without wood from endangered species

You can already play music feeling that you are ecological. A Catalan company has developed an unprecedented violin made of natural fibers and carbon that dispenses with the usual noble woods, some in danger of extinction; without losing physical or acoustic qualities. The violin is the first of the instruments that can already be purchased […]