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Rebel mayors mobilize to get an extra 8,400 million in the 2021 Budgets

Rebel mayors mobilize to get an extra 8,400 million in the 2021 Budgets

  The rebel mayors charge again. The 31 municipalities that managed to twist the arm of the Government are now preparing two amendments to the General State Budgets to demand an extra 8,411 million euros to avoid the bankruptcy of many consistories. This is revealed to EL MUNDO by sources of the group of mayors […]

The former economic brain of Ciudadanos criticizes the Budgets: “They raise the salary to the most protected jobs”

The former economic brain of Ciudadanos criticizes the Budgets: “They raise the salary to the most protected jobs”

The former economic brain of Ciudadanos charges against the Government Budget Project for 2021. Toni Roldan has prepared a report for Esade in which it does not give credibility to the forecasts, or to the income and criticizes that the expenses include raising salaries for officials, in line with the Bank of Spain: “The macroeconomic […]

The airline sector warns: 80% of ERTE will be exhausted in a month and there are five million jobs threatened

The airline sector warns: 80% of ERTE will be exhausted in a month and there are five million jobs threatened

The airline industry today asked governments for “continued financial support” To avoid the looming “job catastrophe” in the aviation industry: 4.8 million jobs are threatened by the fall in travel demand derived from the pandemic and 80% of salary replacement schemes (ERTEs) will be exhausted before the end of the year . The International Air […]

Six regional governments have already decided to freeze their salaries, contrary to the rise of the central Executive

Six regional governments have already decided to freeze their salaries, contrary to the rise of the central Executive

The autonomous governments of Andalusia, Aragón, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, the Canary Islands and Madrid have already communicated that the salaries for 2021 of the senior positions of their Executives will not experience any change with respect to those of 2020, in contrast to the salary increase of 0 , 9% that the Government of […]

The Government approves a subsidy of 430 euros for the unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment benefit

The Government approves a subsidy of 430 euros for the unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment benefit

The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday a subsidy for the unemployed who exhausted all unemployment benefits during the months of confinement with an amount of 430 euros for three months, according to government sources. The measure is one of those demanded by the unions already in the declaration of the first state of alarm […]

Faced with uncertainty, confidence and unity

Faced with uncertainty, confidence and unity

At this point in 2020, we can safely say that ‘uncertainty‘ will be one of the words that will best define the year: uncertainty about how the pandemic will evolve and when we will have a vaccine, uncertainty about the impact on the economy, employment and society; uncertainty about when we can plan a vacation […]

Education, Equality, Defense … These are the Budgets for 2021 item by item

Education, Equality, Defense … These are the Budgets for 2021 item by item

Today the draft law of the General State Budgets for the year 2021 has been presented, those that should promote the economic recovery after the pandemic. This document includes the announced tax increases such as personal income tax on incomes greater than 200,000 euros or the so-called green taxation, with which the Executive estimates that […]

The bill of the coronavirus crisis: the debt increases 450 million a day

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 […]

Germany takes the Canary Islands out of their risky destinations to travel

Germany takes the Canary Islands out of their risky destinations to travel

  Germany, one of the main countries of origin of tourists for Spain, has decided to remove the Canary Islands from its list of risk destinations for Covid to travel. This is a relief for the archipelago, which is now in the height of peak season. According to sources from the Canary Islands Government confirmed […]

The increase in VAT will mean a drop in turnover of up to 370 million and the loss of up to 6,165 jobs

The increase in VAT will mean a drop in turnover of up to 370 million and the loss of up to 6,165 jobs

  The increase in VAT from 10 to 21% to sugary and sweetened beverages planned by the Government will result in a direct drop in turnover of between 119 and 370 million euros per year, as a result of the decline in consumption and between 1,980 and 6,165 jobs will be lost throughout the agri-food chain. The impact […]