The government of Boris Johnson plans to introduce the drastic 10-day “Australian” isolation measure in hotels to visitors to the UK. He premier He was in favor of limiting the measure to visitors from Brazil, South Africa or countries considered high risk by the new strains of coronavirus, but the majority of his Cabinet has […]
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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 […]
AVLO, Renfe’s new low-cost train, will start running on June 23
Renfe has announced that its new high-speed service, AVLO, will start commercial circulation next June 23, as reported by the president of the company, IsaÃas Táboas, on the board of directors. The low-cost train was to start its journey initially on April 6, 2020, but had to postpone its premiere due to the health crisis. […]
The port of Algeciras exceeds the Covid and moves 107 million tons of goods
In the midst of so much bad news, in a scenario in which the Covid devastates practically everything, there is a giant that insists, despite the historical (train) and current (pandemic) obstacles, to show its strength. The port of Algeciras, the first in the national system and the fourth in Europe, has survived the complex […]
Judicial blow to the Government by preventing the expansion of cava in other Autonomous Communities in favor of Catalonia
Judicial blow to the Government of Pedro Sanchez, which in its first months in Moncloa ceded the powers of regulation of cava plantations throughout Spain to the Regulatory Council of the Denomination of Origin (in the hands of the Catalan industry), in a decision that was interpreted in the sector in December of 2019 as […]
Only one regional capital in Castellón slows the unemployment rate in the ‘Covid year’
The coronavirus pandemic It has caused 2020 to go down in history as a catastrophic year for employment and has thus been seen throughout the province of Castellón. It does not matter if we are talking about large cities or small inland towns in the Castellón regions: unemployment has been one of the side effects […]
The pandemic does not unequal globally
The pandemic is said to be exacerbating global income inequalities, penalizing poor countries further. This, which sounds reasonable and has been written by economists like Joseph Stiglitz, academics like Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah -funded by the powerful World Economic Forum-, or institutions like the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), is false. The person in […]
Wuhan, mirror of China’s economic acceleration
From the top of the Yellow Crane Tower, if you look south, you can see the Optics Valley, the economic and technological development zone of Wuhan. A huge valley surrounded by buildings of more than 30 floors, luxury hotels and international corporations that began to settle in this place in the late 1990s, attracted by […]
Navantia, Pymar and Siemens present to Industry a program to digitize shipyards
Navantia, Pymar and Siemens have jointly submitted to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism a program for digitize the Spanish shipyards, which aims to generate a 6% increase in turnover in six years and between 15 and 20% the competitiveness of the sector, with a total effect on the economy of more than 3,000 […]
Why learn about index funds to start investing
Savings by Spanish families were higher last year. In the third quarter of 2020, the savings rate was 15.1%, according to data provided by the National Institute of Statistics. The restrictions and spending more time at home have contributed to this saving, but also the situation of uncertainty due to the coronavirus crisis has led […]
