The release of nearly one billion euros for Spain’s armed forces has sparked tensions in the Spanish government between the Socialists and their leftist partners who are opposed to a defense budget increase promised by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to NATO. Hosting last week’s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Madrid pledged, like the […]
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The Treasury believes that the best way to ensure long-term debt sustainability is to ensure growth
The Director General of the Treasury, Pablo de Ramón-Laca, has affirmed that the best way to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Spanish debt is to guarantee structural growth. The Spanish debt, he assured, is “sustainable” and the interest burden should be used as an indicator, which has decreased in recent years, so “the debt […]
The ECB dismisses as “illegal” and “meaningless” the petition to forgive debt signed by the president of the PSOE and Podemos
The European Central Bank disqualifies as “illegal” and “meaningless”, the debt forgiveness proposal supported, among others, by the president of the PSOE, Cristina Narbona, and the economic manager of Podemos, Nacho Alvarez. “Debt cancellation is illegal under the treaties, but I would like to point out that it is not just a legal issue or […]
Podemos asks Ribera to audit the electricity market that the PSOE demanded of Rajoy in 2017
“What we ask for in the first place is an audit of the electrical costs […] so that citizens do not have to pay for the sardine at the price of bream. “January 19, 2017. A cold wave hit Spain and plunged temperatures to 10 degrees below zero in 16 provinces of the country. The […]
The PSOE responds to the criticisms of Podemos to the rise of the light: “an effort” has already been made
The socialist wing of the Government has tried to contain itself these days after the continuous criticism of Podemos to the rise in the price of electricity. The persistence in keeping open this new line of internal confrontation has led the PSOE to intervene in the conflict, at a time when the formation address it […]
The PP requests the urgent appearance of Ribera and Garzón to explain the “spectacular rise in electricity” to 14 million homes
The PP has requested the urgent appearance of the Vice President of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzon, so that they explain in Congress the reasons behind the “spectacular rise in electricity” registered these days coinciding with the cold wave that is hitting the country. The ‘popular’ group seeks to […]
Welcome to the future
At first glance it seems not, but pandemics are a great social leveler. In March 2018, El gran levelador (The Gret Leveler) by Walter Scheidel, a book that can be obtained in kindle format for 2.73 euros. Its author, an Austrian historian who teaches at Stanford, argues that throughout history inequality has only receded as […]
The ‘bluf’ of Minimum Income: triple the number of cases denied than approved
The Minimum Vital Income it continues to be a chimera for most of the people of Castellón who have applied for this benefit. He Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations has accelerated in recent weeks the procedures to resolve the thousands of files that were pending and has managed to double the number of […]
The PSOE manages to liquidate its bank debt and take away the Ferraz headquarters after his return to power
For the Manual of Resistance that of the Christian Democrat Giulio Andreotti, who was seven times the Christian Prime Minister of Italy, and ended up titled one of his books with his most famous phrase: “Power wears down, but it is better not to lose it”. This political truth can be noted in the accounts of Pedro […]
The Climate Change Law that the PSOE promised of “maximum consensus” unleashes 758 amendments from all parties
The draft Climate Change Act, which Vice-President Teresa Ribera sent to Parliament last May for a theoretical military walk because of the general coincidence that ecological transition is necessary, has encountered an increasingly difficult process. The ultimate goal of not emitting greenhouse gases by 2050 is not discussed, but the way to do so and […]