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31% of Spanish employees would choose to work 40 hours in four days and 30% would be willing to reduce their work week even accepting a salary drop if they were authorized in their company, in order to have more free time and improve their conciliation. These are data that are collected in the study ‘Salary compensation and innovation 2025 – An analysis of the Spanish market’, prepared by Coverflex, a flexible remuneration company, which indicates that, precisely, 57% of employees currently define their schedule as “flexible”. In addition, those who telework, six out of 10 refer that they are…

The State invested in the Community of Madrid in the first half of 2024 a total of 694.3 million, compared to 456.6 million destined for Catalonia, which represents 52% more. This is recorded in a report of the General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) corresponding to the first semester of 2024 that TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio have advanced. Not being able to approve budgets by 2024, the State worked last year with the exchanged accounts of 2023, so if that volume of investment executed with the initial budget is compared with the initial budget by 2023 this would be…

Pedro Sánchez, president of the Government, has ended the tour that has taken him through Vietnam and China with a visit to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, in Beijing, an occasion he has taken to “reinforce the presence of Spain in Asia” and strengthen relations with a country with which he wishes to maintain a “positive agenda” and whom he considers “a partner of the European Union.” Speaking to the media after his meeting with Xi Jinping, Sánchez explained that “Asia is a continent that is gaining a greater prominence” in an increasingly changing international context and stressed that China…

The Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business has agreed on Thursday with the Autonomous Communities in the Internationalization Council of Internationalization to meet each month to monitor the impact of the tariffs raised by Donald Trump, while agreed to create the creation of a working group so that the territories participate in the design of the ICEX response plan. This action has been criticized by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid, Rocío Albert, who has denounced that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has agreed this new commercial plan “with Junts, with their backs to…

White smoking in the EU. The twenty -seven have given the approval this Wednesday to the first round of tariffs against the United States, in response to the 25% customs rate that the White House leader, Donald Trump, has imposed on the imports of community and community aluminum. The block will impose 25% rates to a list of products including corn, footwear or furniture. In a technical meeting that has taken place this noon, the member states have supported the proposal of the European Commission to tax US assets worth 26,000 million euros. It falls from the list of products…

While most of the world trembles at the new commercial earthquake caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs, a country in North Africa emerges as one of the potential winners of the conflict: Morocco. In the midst of a cascade of tariffs that affect Europe, Asia and much of Africa, Rabat has managed to keep a relatively favorable treatment by the United States, with a 10%tariff, the minimum set by the US administration. This apparent concession is not lower: compared to 20% imposed on the European Union, 30% to Algeria and 28% to Tunisia, Morocco has become a tariff stability island amid…

The Holy Week of Zamora generates an economic impact of twelve million euros, according to a study presented by this Monday by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports, Gonzalo Santonja, who explained that the report is prepared with data collected during Holy Week of 2024. Santonja has been accompanied by the president of the Governing Board of the Pro-Semana Santa Zamora Board, Israel López Campos, and Fernando Cabañeros, on behalf of Excellence Innova. Consulting and Training, the company that has carried out the study. The counselor has advanced that it is a study that “values ​​the socioeconomic impact of…

A four -degree planetary warming compared to pre -industrial levels could reduce world GDP about 40% in 2100, compared to 11% of previous estimates. That is the conclusion of a study led by the Institute of Climate Risk and Response (ICRR) of the University of Nueva Gales del Sur (Australia) and published in the magazine ‘Environmental Research Letters’. This analysis corrects an error in the economic model that supports the current global climate policy, overcoming the previous carbon parameters. The results support the limitation of global warming to 1.7 degrees, in line with significantly faster decarbonization objectives endorsed by the…

The General Secretary of the PSOE-A, First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, said this Saturday that the new credit transfer of 2,084 million euros provided for injecting funds to the Ministry of Defense “has no special characteristic” and derives that the country works with the General State Budgets (PGE) extended. Thus, he has assured that it is a “very similar” transfer to other previously undertaken and that adding “knows these items perfectly.” In statements to the media in Seville, where he has participated in a mobilization in defense of Andalusian health, María Jesús…

The Official E -Employment Report of the US has returned to its tradition in recent years of baffling the whole world with a strong reading creation reading when the cooling of the economy is a fact and the debate revolves around a speedy recession accelerated by the aggressive policies of Donald Trump. According to the breakdown published this Friday by the Office of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the Department of Labor, in March 228,000 non-agricultural positions were created, practically double the 110,000-130,000 expected by analysts. The first conclusion seems clear and fits the extracted from the latest growth readings of…

Castilla y León arrives with the duties done to the Trump tariff block. Just a few hours after the American president made his threat effectively, the executive of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco, has launched nine measures per initial amount of 16.5 million to mitigate the effects of the barriers to the world of the world of the US president. The Minister of Economy and spokesman of the Regional Government, Carlos Fernández Cariedo, has recognized that the regional executive “had been preparing an answer after Trump’s ads upon arrival at the White House with meetings with business organizations and representatives of the…

The Basque Government and the Executive of Pedro Sánchez negotiate the stepped transfer and “step by step” of the management of the economic regime of social security, as announced on Wednesday the spokeswoman of the Basque Government, Maria Ubarretxena, In an interview with Radio Popular, collected by Europa Press, Ubarretxena has indicated that, in terms of transfers, governments are doing a “kitchen” job, and next week they will hold several meetings in Madrid with different ministries “to advance.” Among the pending transfers, he recalled that there is the economic management of Social Security, “which until now has always been a…

The Institute of Seniors and Social Services (Imserso) will offer this year almost 7,500 places under a flat rate of 50 euros so that pensioners with the lowest income can access the trips. On the 40th birthday of the program, the new tender seeks “that nobody stays without traveling” for reasons of income or rent. It is not the only novelty, since in 2025, for the first time, travel with pets will be allowed. In total, 7,447 places will be reserved for people whose benefit is equal to or lower than the non -contributory pension for disability or social security…

The Sevillian economy continues on the positive path marked since the middle of last year. It is the main conclusion of the XXIV Economic Barometer of the College of Economists and the Loyola University, which anticipates that the Sevillian economy will present a moderate expansion, with a growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 2.4% in 2025, and 1.9% in 2026. Good data is also reflected in the labor market, where an estimated growth of employment of 4% in 2025 and 1.8% in 2026 is expected. “These figures together with the remarkable reduction of the unemployment rate, which could…

This figure represents 1.18% of Spanish GDP, two basic points more than the previous year, “which reflects the relevance and strategic role of the bank, which has managed to increase its weight in a context of strong rebound in the economy of the country registered last year,” Caixabank reports in a statement. Bank’s activity “has a direct impact on the employment of the significant country”, since the Caixabank template in Spain grew 14% in 2024, to reach the 41,304 professionals, compared to 36,225 of the previous year, and group level, the number of employees amounted to 46,014, which represents an…

The general director of Imserso, María Teresa Sancho, admitted to being “worried” about the possibility that the Government does not present some general state budgets by 2025, because “we have diverse projects that will have to stay there if there is no renewal.” Sancho made these valuations in a meeting in Servimedia together with the Director General of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Jesús Martín Blanco, with whom he spoke on the draft to reform the General Law of Disability and that of Personal Autonomy and attention to the…

The Ministries of Finance and Labor closed an agreement on the horn this morning to prevent workers who receive the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) had to pay IRPF for the first time. The two formations that make up the Government have closed a pact to apply a specific deduction this year, as proposed by the team of the First Vice President of the Government, María Jesús Montero, instead of adjusting the minimum exempt that had been applied in the previous exercises. Some terms that Vice President Yolanda Díaz has accepted in exchange for making available to the negotiators of collective…

The government of France, led by conservative François Bayrou, breathes something quieter. The neighboring country closed 2024 with a budget deficit of 5.8%, that is, 169.6 billion euros. The consensus and the Gallic Executive himself expected it to be 6%. Of course, four tenths increased with respect to 2023, a discovered who also scored a record and was a hard blow to the government of that time, that was not expected. The tenants of Bercy (this is commonly known to the Ministry of Economy and Finance Galo) awaited this good news and, finally, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic…

Four Extremadura companies will receive a total subsidy of 5.1 million euros within the Strategic Recovery and Economic Transformation Plan (PART) Agrifood II, after being included in the provisional approval of 40 new projects announced by the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, worth 21.3 million euros in subsidies, with actions in 13 autonomous communities. Among the winning companies, the selection of El Encinar de Haje, in Almaraz, was already announced with a subsidy of 2.9 million euros for a biodigester installation project for the waste management of the slaughterhouse and biogas production promoting a circular bioeconomy model. In addition, Tomcoex…

Industrial prices rose 6.6% in February in relation to the same month of 2024, which represents about four more points at the rate recorded the previous month and the highest since February 2023, as reported on Tuesday the National Institute of Statistics (INE). With the year -on -year ascent in the second month of 2025, the inflation of the industrial sector adds four consecutive months of increases after having previously chained 20 months of negative rates. The increase in industrial inflation in February was a consequence of the evolution of energy prices, which raised its interannual rate 13.8 points, up…

The goal of returning peace to Ukraine is more alive than ever. The fear that the invasion of the regions of Donesk and Lugansk by Russia climb to a greater conflict is leading to the global powers to seek the mechanisms to return peace to the territory, especially after the approach conato that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have had. China had spoken as a neutral actor and a peace catalyst in the territory, but Beijing had never raised the sending of troops to the area, until now. According to Chinese…

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has criticized this Saturday his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, whom he has branded as a “nostalgic (Benito) Mussolini” and “greedy”, in addition to defining him as “Cipayo”, a term used to refer to a person who betrays the interests of his country and favors that of foreign powers. “Milei comes from the European world, does not come from Latin American flow. He is Italian. And today Italy is in full decline and still longs for the Roman Empire, but Mussolini, something worse,” said the president in an interview with the Spanish economist Alfredo Serrano…

The Association of Construction and Concessionaires of Infrastructure Seopan has calculated that Spain needs to invest 85,000 million euros in water infrastructure until 2035 to adapt its network to the necessary quality requirements. This Saturday, March 22, World Water and Spain Day is celebrated is the fourth European country, according to Eurostat, with the highest economic losses due to extreme meteorological phenomena and climatic events, which represented 27.13 euros per inhabitant in 2020. The DANA last October confirms the scientific evidence of the impact of climate change in the Mediterranean basins, which would require, among other measures, the implementation of…

Spring is the station of the new beginnings, the perfect moment to renew spaces and strengthen the connection with plants and nature. In an accelerated world, plant care has become a perfect ally to learn to relax and disconnect. Under this philosophy, Lidl presents a selection of more than 700 decoration products and garden tools from 1.99 euros, available under its own brands Livarno, Grillmeister and Parkside, and which includes products such as garden furniture, barbecues, sun loungers, hammocks, decoration accessories, planters and gardeners, garden tools, umbrellas and more. This assortment will be available in the Lidl online store, with…

The Agricultural Organization of Extremadura Asaja has demanded the Declaration of Catastrophic Zone in the areas of the Extremadura Campo that have been “seriously” affected by the recent “torrential rains.” The president of Apag Extremadura Asaja, Juan Metidieri, has revealed the “urgency” of adopting “immediate” measures to alleviate the situation, mainly in the most affected areas, among which Jaraíz de la Vera (Cáceres) and the Pacenses regions of Vegas Altas, La Serena, South Campiña, among others, where the “force of the water has wreaked off, among others, where the” force of water has wreaked for both infrastructures. in agricultural farms.…