The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court has confirmed the judgments of the National Court which, in turn, confirmed the resolutions of the Ministry of Culture by which it denied the former president of Bankinter Jaime Botín the permission to export the painting ‘Young Woman’s Head’by Pablo Picasso. For the moment the ruling has been […]
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The judge prosecutes Rodrigo Rato for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax avoidance
The magistrate has issued the order for transformation, which opens the deadline for the State Prosecutor’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office to present the indictment in which they specify what convictions are requested for Rato The Madrid judge investigating Rodrigo Rato has closed the investigation phase and considers that the former vice president […]
The judge confirms the discharging of Mikhail Fridman in the ‘Zed case’
The Court of Instruction number 6 of Madrid has confirmed the indictment of the Russian businessman MijaÃl Fridman in the so-called ‘Zed case’. Judge Manuel GarcÃa-Castellon has issued an order in which he rejects the appeals presented by both the PÃ © rez Dolset family and the Public Prosecutor’s Office and confirms that there are […]
Hospitality billing fell 50% due to the pandemic
The hospitality billing fell 50% last year due to the pandemic. That is, it was cut in half, with a marked collapse in highly touristy regions, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands. This is reflected in the INE data on the services sector published this Monday. According to these figures, in the whole of […]
Escrivá announces that ERTE shoots up to 900,000 people in the first two weeks of February
The Government breathed a sigh of relief on February 4 when the number of unemployed fell just short of four million workers and was able to make a positive reading of the evolution of the crisis. It was a reading that practically no one shared and that I could hardly keep up with now. Between […]
Rises of up to 33% in rents in Madrid if the Government applies its new index to intervene in prices
An apartment on Avenida Villaviciosa de Alcorcon that is currently rented at 675 euros could become more expensive up to 1,156 if the price that comes out of the Government’s rental price index applies. Another, in this case one of 75 square meters located in Arganzuela, could go from the current 690 to a minimum […]
The Catalan tax hell
Catalonia will continue to be a fiscal hell. These words were spoken by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel DÃaz Ayuso at the delivery of the Best Entrepreneurs of Madrid awards organized and Telva magazine. The competition, always healthy, that the two richest communities in Spain have maintained (they represent 40% of the […]
Ayuso says that companies are fleeing Catalonia, where “the freedom of families and companies is trampled on”
President Isabel DÃaz Ayuso took advantage of her intervention in the Awards for the Best Entrepreneurs of Madrid, awarded by Actualidad Económica and Telva, to remind that free societies must recognize the “act of courage” that being a businessman supposes, “without falling into the old political temptation to control or direct anyone”. This vague and […]
Brussels revises Spain’s growth forecast up two tenths this year
The European Commission predicts a very difficult end of winter, but begins to see “the light at the end of the tunnel”. This is reflected in the Winter Macroeconomic Forecasts, one of the four forecasting exercises carried out each year and in which, despite the third wave, the vaccine problems and the prolongation of the […]
María Jesús Montero accuses Madrid of unleashing “capital flight” in other communities due to its “fiscal dumping”
The Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Montero, has hardened his speech against what he calls the “fiscal dumping” of the Community of Madrid. In an intervention in the Congress of Deputies, Montero has accused the regional government of Isabel Diaz Ayuso to unleash “capital flight” in other autonomous communities and to the Popular Party to […]