The so-called cava war in Spain has recently added a new chapter with the ruling of the Supreme court that gives the reason to the Junta de Extremadura in its battle against the Ministry of Agriculture for benefiting, in practice, the Catalan cava sector against the interests of Extremadura and Valencia. The Valencian Government did […]
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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 […]
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 […]
The restaurant asks that all sectors close at six in the afternoon “so that there is no discrimination”
Restauración-CAEB has today denounced the “discrimination” that it feels its sector is subjected to and, in order to avoid comparative grievances with other sectors, has called for a general cessation of all activity from six o’clock, as is the case with restoration. On the day that the new Government regulations come into force that forces […]
Unicaja and Liberbank approve their merger and create the fifth largest bank in Spain: “It will be necessary to adopt labor measures”
The fifth bank of Spain takes shape. The boards of directors of Unicaja Banco and Liberbank gave the green light to the merger of these entities, which will form a single bank with a volume of assets of around 110,000 million euros. During the afternoon, the negotiations of the last few weeks were finally on […]
The Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands, Madrid and Catalonia, the autonomous regions most affected by the crisis, with GDP falls of over 13%
The Savings Banks Foundation (Funcas) foresees that the island regions of Balearic and Canary Islands, the Community of Madrid and Catalonia be the autonomies with biggest drop in GDP in 2020, thus becoming the most affected by the economic crisis derived from the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, it is estimated that Baleares is the community most […]
The Valencian Community will be one of the fastest growing in 2021 but without recovering pre-Covid levels
 The summary of the economic horizon that is looming could well be the following: the regions that in this year of the pandemic have managed to withstand the storm somewhat better will see a weaker recovery in 2021. It is one of the conclusions of the BBVA Research Regional Observatory for the fourth quarter, which […]
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 […]