Perplexity. The Government’s decision to selectively break the municipal confinement that governs Catalonia due to the pandemic to go to events within the electoral campaign has further increased the gap that separates the business community from those responsible for the Generalitat, quite a bit open taking into account the complaints about the null capacity to […]
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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 […]
Catalonia will extend the municipal confinement and trade restrictions due to the coronavirus for two weeks
The Generalitat will extend two more weeks, until February 7, the current restrictions imposed to stop the contagion of coronavirus, which ended next Sunday. This was decided this morning by the technical committee of the Civil Protection Plan of Catalonia (Procicat), according to Catalunya RÃ dio. Consequently, the daily municipal confinement and limitations of different […]
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 Generalitat advances in the creation of a ‘Catalan Nasa’
He Govern has given the green light this Tuesday to the preliminary memory of the draft bill for the creation of the Catalan Space Agency, promoted by the Department of Digital Policies who leads Jordi Puignero, within the framework of the so-called NewSpace Strategy. The creation of the Catalan Space Agency responds to the need […]
Catalan doctors and Quim Torra criticize that the Generalitat does not increase restrictions against the coronavirus
The decision of the Catalan government not to modify the current coronavirus restrictions for Christmas it has received numerous criticisms in the last hours from various health experts. Despite the fact that the Minister of the Interior, Miquel SÃ per, referred last Sunday, in an interview in Rac1, to the possibility of advancing the curfew […]
The Generalitat will terminate the contract with Ferrovial to track the coronavirus in Catalonia
The Generalitat will terminate on January 31 the controversial contract with Ferroser Auxiliary Services, subsidiary of Ferrovial, for tracking coronavirus cases in Catalonia. From then on, the Public Health Agency Autonomic will assume the management of the control of the close contacts of patients diagnosed with Covid. As the Secretary General of Health explained today, […]
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, […]
Christmas in the dark in Catalonia paid for electricity blackouts
At the gates of a block without light in Sabadell, a young man shows a neighbor how a battery-operated lamp works. Any gadget that lights up is listed in the building, where they go for the sixth consecutive week in the dark. “I have the floor full of candles. I’m afraid that there is a […]