EPA The year of the coronavirus takes 748,000 jobs ahead in the private sector IPC Prices rise 0.6% in January, the first rebound since the coronavirus A year ago, the city of Wuhan had just been confined a few days ago; in Spain, no case of coronavirus had yet been registered; and one of the […]
Tag: economics / macroeconomics
BotÃn calls in Davos for speed and international cooperation to compete with fintech companies
The president of Banco Santander, Ana BotÃn, considers that digitization represents a “huge opportunity” for the financial sector, although in her speech at the World Economic Forum she underlined the importance of establishing a level playing field to compete with new players for which he has demanded an orderly and rapid solution, including international cooperation, […]
Merkel wants to ban travel abroad after the Christmas getaway to the Canary Islands and Maldives
Chancellor Angela Merkel has harshly criticized the management of the pandemic in Germany (which corresponds to the LÃ € under) and has advocated for more severe measures of those that are already in force before the “tinderbox” that supposes the appearance of new strains of the coronavirus, including the prohibition of travel. “This issue has gotten […]
Pedro Sánchez acknowledges in Davos that youth unemployment in Spain is “unacceptably high”
The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has admitted that youth unemployment is “unacceptably high” in Spain in his intervention in the panel ‘Progress towards a New Social Contract’ at the World Economic Forum. Sánchez has also announced that they are working on measures to improve the employability and qualification of young people in which 750 million […]
Xi Jinping opens Davos by calling for multilateralism: “the world will never be what it was in the past”
China came to the virtual Davos Forum as the clear winner of 2020. It is the only major economy that has grown. The pandemic, except for small outbreaks, has it under control for now. It has signed the largest trade agreement in the world with 15 Asian countries and an unprecedented investment pact with the […]
The government’s Google tax already reaches customers: Amazon communicates in writing to its SMEs that it will pass it on
Amazon has begun warning suppliers and manufacturers that it will charge the government-approved 3% rate. This Tax on Certain Digital Services, known as Google, came into force on January 16, 2021 after the law was approved by the Senate in October of last year with 134 votes in favor, 101 against and 28 abstentions. As […]
The new setback of the Government to the self-employed: they cannot deduct the expenses of supplies from their home for teleworking
The General Directorate of Taxes has responded negatively to the binding query of a self-employed worker in which she asked if she could deduct the additional expenses derived from supplies such as electricity or internet connection when she was forced to work from home due to the pandemic. This question, they explain in their answer, […]
Lagarde reiterates the ECB’s monetary support in the face of the Eurozone relapse due to the second wave of Covid
The European Central Bank (ECB) has again made clear its unconditional support for the European economy at a time when forecasts once again indicate a slowdown in the recovery as a result of the second wave of coronavirus. The increase in contagions and the restrictions to deal with it make the entity foresee a […]
Insurers register 60,000 parts of claims only at home after the storm Filomena
The employer’s association considers that it is still too early to estimate the impact of the storm because “there is still a lot of people who are assured that they are not aware of whether they have suffered damages derived from the snowfall” Temporal e the wave from cold to the rains that will finally […]
The clear accounts: Why the electricity bill is higher in Spain
We are still pending the electricity bill in our country, and we also focus on the US and on the challenges of large technology companies such as Facebook, Apple or Amazon before the arrival of Joe Biden This week we are still pending the electricity bill. Spain is one of the countries where electricity rates […]
