“It is not a debate between the economy and the environment, but rather we are facing a challenge for public, private and mixed administrations and operators to build efficient and competitive mobility”. This was expressed by the Councilor for Mobility of the Barcelona City Council, Rosa Alarcón, in the event ‘Transport and new urban mobility’ […]
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Ifema delays Fitur to May and will seek to mark the return of face-to-face fairs after the Covid crisis
With the first quarter of next year “lost” for the return of visitors, Ifema’s management is already looking towards april and May to “kick off” the big fairs and congresses with a physical presence of people. Hence, on yesterday afternoon, Fitur’s organizing committee decided to move from the end of January to mid-May – […]
Telefónica and El Corte Inglés join forces to introduce 5G in the logistics industry
Agreement between the main Spanish operator and the most important department stores in the country to implement the new mobile communications technology. Telefónica will deploy a 5G network on the El Corte Inglà © s platform in Valdemoro (Madrid), in a one of the first demonstrations of the industrial possibilities of this fifth mobile generation. […]
The closure of the airspace is paid with fines to 131 controllers and 1,000 euros of compensation for each passenger
A Madrid court has sentenced 131 air traffic controllers at Madrid-Barajas and Torrejón airports for a crime of abandoning public service. The sentence was handed down within the macro-reason followed by the closure of the airspace on the bridge in December 2010, accompanied by the first declaration of the state of alarm in Spain. The […]
They report Uber to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for an award related to the Covid of the Community of Madrid
New judicial front for the Uber company. This time due to its contractual relationship with the Community of Madrid for a service related to action to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Taxi Proyect 2.0 association has filed a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court after considering that the company […]
UGT asks the Labor Inspectorate to act ex officio and force Glovo and Uber to register all their ‘riders’, such as Amazon
The Labor Inspectorate, which has forced Amazon to register 3,000 workers that it employed as false self-employed workers for its home delivery services, a union demand is already on the table UGT to do the same with Glovo, Uber Eats y Stuart the largest platforms in this type of business. The employment situation of […]
Only Japan, Sudan and Zambia will borrow more than Spain this year
The coronavirus has not only cost Spain the lives of 33,204 people, according to the contador maintained by Johns Hopkins University since the pandemic broke out. It has also ruined the country. Here are some of the figures, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics published yesterday and today. The crisis will make […]
The WTO authorizes the EU to punish the US with 4 billion annual tariff countermeasures
The World Trade Organization (WTO) this Tuesday authorized the European Union (EU) to impose tariffs on products from the United States with an annual ceiling value of $ 3.993 billion, about € 2.9 billion at the current exchange rate, as compensation for subsidies received by Boeing between September 2012 and September 2015 and which have […]
The IMF improves its forecasts for the large developed economies with only one exception: Spain
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that the coronavirus has launched into “extreme poverty“- that is, to live on less than 1 dollar with 61 cents a day – 90 million people, the equivalent of twice the population of Spain. It has caused the greatest crisis in history since the Great Depression that occurred 90 […]
Europe begins to close in the face of the second wave of COVID-19
Spain Large traffic jams in Madrid with police controls deployed at the exits of the city. The Spanish Government has ended the tug of war with the Madrid region by declaring a 15-day state of alarm in the capital to reduce Covid-19 infection rates after the second worst figure of this second was recorded on Friday […]