The overnight stays (nights) in hotel establishments they fell 78.4% in September compared to the same month of the previous year, due to the outbreaks of late summer, the closure of some hotels that already gave up the season for lost and the restrictions (quarantines) of some European countries. That is only two out of […]
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Citrus farming demands from the EU more control over South Africa’s ‘unfair competition’ with pesticides
In the year that South Africa will break record in citrus exports, the sector continues to demand that the European Union (EU) increase control over imported fruit from this African country before the high number of pesticides detected by the Department of Agriculture. The latest wake-up call on the need to increase control over […]
The hoteliers of Valencia calculate that the curfew will cost them one million euros a day
The imminent curfew from 0 to 6 hours announced yesterday by the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, to stop the advance of the coronavirus in the Valencian Community has not been well received by some associations in the hospitality sector. Despite the fact that the social agents (the unions and the employers) gave […]
Uncertainty among Spanish farmers before the new CAP due to its broad environmental requirements
With “caution”, “concern” and “uncertainty”. This is the mood of Spain’s farmers and ranchers after learning of the agreement reached by the agriculture ministers in the Council of the European Union who will regulate the basic rules of the agricultural sector until 2027, a pact which must still be ratified by the European Parliament and […]
The coronavirus barely reduces the number of super millionaires in Spain by 78 people
The coronavirus is being more lenient with the fortunes of millionaires and supermillions than with the economy at large. The pandemic has not significantly altered the volume of its accounts or the number of people included in these exclusive groups. By mid-2020, the number of millionaires (in dollars) reached 51.82 million individuals, representing a decline of just […]
The bill of the coronavirus crisis: the debt increases 450 million a day
Public debt continues to rebound at a dizzying rate as a direct consequence of the coronavirus crisis and the measures that the Government has deployed to cope with the economic recession. So much so that the set of liabilities of the Public Administrations closed August at 1.29 trillion and has already rebounded to more […]
The algarroba quadruples price and depletes seedlings
The algarroba has increased the price four times and depletes seedlings in nurseries in the heat of unusual demand in which various factors influence, mainly the increase in demand and the decline in supply of producing countries such as Morocco. The quote reaches 70 cents per kilo “after years of misery” and arouses the interest of many farmers, reports […]
The tile continues unstoppable and exports 18% more in August
A new lesson on the strength of the ceramic sector in the province of Castellón with export data for the month of August that once again surprised us with a two-digit growth, in the same way that it already happened in July. The tile exported worth 250.4 million euros during August, what a 17.7% […]
The airline industry affirms that there is twice the probability of hitting the primitive than of getting infected in an airplane
The US Department of Defense carried out a study to evaluate the possibility of contagion of Covid inside an airplane and concluded that a passenger would have to fly 54 hours with a sick person to become infected. Manufacturers Airbus and Boeing also assessed the risk. They filled a device with mannequins, one of […]
The Catalan Pyrenees finalizes the opening of a ski season marked by the coronavirus
After closing suddenly in mid-March due to the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the ski resorts of the Catalan Pyrenees, most of them in the hands of the Generalitat, are finalizing their set-up for the first conditional ski season by the Covid, whose second hello causes new uncertainties. The objective is to open our […]