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 […]
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The black year of tourism: its weight on GDP falls from 12.4% to 4.3% and they see the recovery already towards summer
The tourism sector confirms its worst forecasts for the year that has just closed, with a loss in billing of more than 106,000 million euros (a drop of almost 70% compared to 2019) and already It is no longer the engine of the economy, as the weight of the sector over GDP has fallen from […]
What is the best bank to open a free account?
The main banks in Spain have increased commissions on their checking accounts in recent months or have tightened the conditions for not paying them. A trend that has made it clear that, for banks, making all your clients profitable is a priority and if they cannot do so by placing products such as mutual funds, […]
Feria Valencia announces “with great regret” the definitive cancellation of Cevisama 2021 due to the pandemic
The organizing committee of Cevisama, the international trade show for the ceramic, bathroom equipment and natural stone industry, met this Wednesday to discuss the convenience of holding the next edition of the show, scheduled for May 24 to 28 after postponing their traditional February dates because of the pandemic. The sectoral associations represented in the […]
The Government offers to negotiate “soon” the repeal of the labor reform to demobilize the unions
The convocation of the unions to mobilize against the Government on February 11 has prompted the Executive to offer them the partial repeal of the labor reform in a negotiation that will open “soon” and that should be carried out in weeks. The written commitment is to “balance” labor relations within the companies and includes […]
IATA will create a health passport to facilitate mobility around Europe
The air sector Coordination is already being carried out to implement a kind of health travel passport that allows mobility across borders, with the same criteria for all. It is about creating a common system that would facilitate, for example, that a person who has been vaccinated against Covid does not have to take any […]
Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, reappears after almost three months “disappeared”
The billionaire founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Jack Ma, has reappeared this Tuesday in a virtual meeting with rural teachers after months without knowing his whereabouts, time in which the relationship between PekÃÂn and the business group he created. In the video, posted on the newspaper portal Tianmu News, published in his native […]
The Valencian Government will give direct aid to companies that prove that they were viable before the pandemic
With the pandemic running rampant and the autonomous communities tightening restrictions to face the third wave, the economic sectors most affected clamored for direct aid that the Government had promised and that, however, had not yet materialized. The Valencian Community will take a step in this direction, with a shock plan that promises to mobilize […]
Mercadona donated more than 17,000 tons of food in 2020
Mercadona has donated more than 17,000 tons of products in 2020 to soup kitchens, food banks and other charities of Spain and Portugal, 84% more than the previous year, as a consequence of the current health and economic crisis derived from coronavirus. These donations are the equivalent of more than 283,000 shopping carts and are […]
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 […]
