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On 8 September, the European Central Bank (ECB) raised interest rates to 1.25% for the second consecutive time in two months. Today, President Christine Lagarde announced new increases to address runaway inflation. "In the medium term we have to push inflation back to 2% and we will do what we have to do. That is to say keep raising the interest in the next meetings", she explained. Lagarde has also […]

Four men aged between 19 and 30 have been arrested in Torrevieja accused of multiple rape of an 18-year-old girl who was on vacation in the Alicante town with a friend. The victim went to report the incident to the Guardia Civil on September 8 as soon as she could after the incident, thus facilitating the immediate action of specialists. The Women-Minor Team (EMUME) of the Alicante Command began the […]

The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, announced today some of the measures that will include the Valencian tax reform, which will have retroactive effect from 1 January 2022. These include a 10% increase in "all tax deductions and bonuses". It won’t be the only one, having also confirmed a new regional IRPF rate for 2022, with inflation-adjusted tranches that will benefit "the majority of society". " Our perspective is […]

During the early hours of Monday an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 has been recorded in Andalusia with epicenter in Malaga. This has been reported by the National Geographic Institute (IGN). The earthquake has been felt in several municipalities of the province of Malaga without causing personal or material damage. IGN indicates that the earthquake took place at 03:48 hours with epicenter in Malaga and 69 kilometers deep. In Fuengirola, Mijas […]

The strong consequences of tropical storm Hermine are still felt in some parts of Spain, especially in the Canary Islands. There, the rains have left in some areas such as La Palma more than 350 liters per square meter. This has caused the regional government to maintain the maximum alert, which this morning was at red and has now been lowered to orange. There's more than 250 flights have been […]

Tropical Storm Hermine has weakened into a subtropical squall. In the last 12 hours it has unloaded up to 100 liters of rain per square meter in some parts of the Canary Islands. Authorities are on high alert. The rain has led to road closures on several islands, 800 incidents and the cancellation of 252 flights. Heavy rainfall has been recorded for 24 hours without ceasing. The rain has forced […]

The president of Meta, Facebook and Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, intends to install in this municipality of Toledo the large data center Meta. For this town with 83,437 inhabitants and an unemployment rate of 24.73%, will create up to 840 jobs during the construction phase and 250 for staff once built. Talavera de la Reina is a town in Toledo that in recent years has been greatly affected by depopulation. Since […]

Dub, the dog that disappeared last August 1, has been found in Valladolid and is already with Gabin Regnier, its owner. Specifically, he disappeared at a gas station outside Vitoria. His owner, who was on a trip with a group of friends from France to Portugal, stopped to refuel and the dog jumped out the van without anyone noticing. It was about two months since he disappeared. His owner, desperate […]

Searching: apartment for rent in Barcelona. We leave more than 4,300 available homes. If we narrow down by maximum price and put 1,000 euros the offer is reduced quite a lot, to about 560. And if our budget is 750 euros it will cost us more to find where to live, there's 67 rentals left. In San Sebastian the average price is 1,200 euros: "the truth that below 1,000 euros […]