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The Second Vice President and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, opens to recover the aid for small and medium enterprises to adapt to the reduction of the day to 37.5 hours per week. In her speech at the opening of the Electoral Assembly of ATE, the work leader valued the aid to the SMEs that were raised from the Ministry during the negotiation of the reduction of the workday between the employer, the ministry and the unions, although they did not finally incorporated into the text since they did not reach an agreement and the employer ‘left’…

The Parliament of Iran has dismissed this Sunday to the Minister of Economy of the country, Abdolnasser Hemmati, six months after reaching the position of the government’s president, Masud fishshkian, in the midst of an economic crisis due to the collapse of the rial, the national currency. Hemmati has been unable to overcome a motion of censure in the Islamic Advisory Assembly despite the fact that the Iranian President appeared to grant in person his support for his minister’s work in the face of the hard economic situation that the country is going through, under US sanctions for his nuclear…

The Deputy Secretary of Economy of the PP, Juan Bravo, has admitted this Saturday that the communities governed by his party are “autonomous” pear decide whether or not the debt remove proposal raised by the Government, but has insisted that “the condom is not the solution” because, in reality, “nothing is forgiven” and the debt must be paid the same. In an interview with the ‘Parliament’ program of RNE, Bravo explained that none of his directors has spoken in deprived of the possibility of accepting that remove. Asked if they would understand that any of their territories were accepted that…

The economy grew in Galicia 2.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024 in relation to the same period of the previous year, as can be seen from the quarterly accounting information regarding this period, published this Friday by the Galician Institute of Statistical (IGE). Regarding intertramestral evolution, from September to December 2024, autonomic GDP increased 0.8%, while the year closed with a 2.8%growth. From or point of view, the gross capital formation increased by 3.8% and exports of goods and services have an interannual rate of 3.7%. Regarding imports, 1.7%rise, at the same time that domestic demand and final consumption…

There is a photograph of the residential market that indicates that a family with average income could assume the purchase with mortgage of more than half of the floors for sale in Spain. However, this generalization is not very representative in a matter with as many edges such as housing. The analysis by cities uncovers how the situation of tension in the real estate devours the income of the families in some territories and reduces well below the average the total of floors with affordable prices for family budgets. Palma de Mallorca stands as the capital with the monthly disbursements…

The general secretary of the PSOE of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, has asked the president of the Board, María Guardiola, to explain the reasons why he rejects the debt remove in 1,718 million euros to Extremadura. “To say why he says no to the condonation of 1,718 million euros to say yes to the strategy of Mr. Feijóo,” said Gallardo, in statements to the media in an act in the Assembly of Extremadura. “That Mrs. Guardiola explain why she says not for each Extremadura to stop 1,500 euros, and to guarantee the PP strategy,” insisted the leader of the Extremadura…

Of “attack on equality.” Thus, Vox Aragon has described the condonation agreement of 17,000 million euros of debt to Catalonia and the proposal of the Ministry of Finance for the rest of autonomies. Its spokesman Alejandro Nolasco, has criticized a press conference in the courts of Aragon, this agreement that also implies an increase of 2,000 million euros over the initial figure of 15,000 million euros that had been initially scheduled and that now has been elevated in the agreement between ERC and PSOE. A the latter party on which Nolasco has pointed out that “it is humiliated because Junqueras…

The Government proposes a mechanism of removes in which it undertakes to condemn up to 83,252 million euros of the debt that CCAA maintains with the State through the Autonomous Liquidity Fund (Fla). The document raises a condom of 18,791 million for Andalusia, 17,104 million for Catalonia or 11,210 million for the Valencian Community. The proposal establishes three phases that explain the methodology. First, it calculates the amount through a differential between the volume of liabilities accumulated by the territories in the period that covers December 31, 2009 and that of 2013; and that registered between the last days of…

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, has insisted on his desire to reach a free trade agreement with the United States and announced that his country will join the policy of reciprocal tariffs proposed by the Government of Donald Trump. In a speech received by applause and cheers at the Conservative Polic Your country to achieve a commercial agreement with the US. “If we were not restricted by Mercosur, Argentina would already be working on a NAFTA with the US that is mutually beneficial and not unfairly loaded on the backs of Argentine producers,” said the South American president. Last…

Peru has promoted a program called ‘Pisco for the world’ to promote that 50 companies from the south of the country export this typical international drink, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism reported on Friday in a statement. The minister of said portfolio, Desilú León, explained that this program is in its second stage, after the first one started in 2023 to recognize the needs and problems faced by companies and identify the facilities that can be offered in the face of trade abroad. At present, the second phase of the program offers training and technical assistance for producers…

The PSOE has proposed to sanction with up to 30 days of employment and salary to officials who unjustifiably miss work, show carelessness or breaches in the exercise of their functions or unjustly breach their work schedule, among other reasons. Thus it follows from one of the amendments that the Socialist Group has submitted to for the bill of the Public Function of the State Administration, published in July in the Official Gazette of the General Courts and whose period of presentation of amendments has ended This same week. In the text that includes the 37 amendments provided by the…

The City Council of Zaragoza, in plenary session, has approved the budget by 2025 with an endowment of 978 million euros with the votes in favor of PP and Vox and the rejection of PSOE and ZEC. The budget, following the items that had already been presented previously, grows 2.97% and increases the investment by 15%, reaching record levels that were not exceeded since the years of the 2008 Expo. During the plenary session, the mayor of Zaragoza, Natalia Chueca, has described as “historical” this budget with which the city “shines”. In addition, he has stressed that he is immersed…

The Minister of Economy and Finance of the Generalitat, Alicia Romero, presented on Wednesday the Cluster of Serveis Financers, which aims to boost innovation and sustainability in the financial field. He has done this Wednesday in an event held in the Barcelona Stock Exchange, in which he explained that the initiative intends to “raise projects and resources” in contribution to private actors to boost the Catalan economy. The project, framed in the Government’s investment macroplan presented in January, wants to respond to the “global” challenges facing the financial system. “In the public sector we have financial instruments, but it is…

The experts of the General Council of Economists celebrate that the year 2024 has closed with economic growth of 3.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Despite this, they ask for caution at the signs launched by 2025 on the possible relaxation, although it will lift 2.4%. It has been in the presentation of this Tuesday of the report of the financial observatory and economic keys corresponding to the third four -month period of 2024. Economists have also warned about the increase in public debt, which has increased 2.9% in the last year to 1.61 billion euros, and have also…

Did you know that ethnic Koreans in Ukraine feel at home despite the racism, they see themselves as Ukrainians of Korean descent and are a forgotten element Ukrainian society, living in the red zone and fully part of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Ethnic Koreans in Ukraine “Why did we Koreans come to Ukraine? To work in the countryside! The conditions here are good for growing vegetables,” said Olena Pak, a resident of the rural Shevchenkove settlement in southern Ukraine. Her parents, like those of her husband Oleh, also an ethnic Korean, came to Ukraine from Uzbekistan in the 1970s, when both countries…

According to the interior minister Austria stabbing Islamist attack the perpetrator of a knife attack in the Austrian city of Villach was radicalized online and had links to the so-called “Islamic State” group, Austria’s interior minister said. Austria stabbing Islamist attack The Syrian suspect, who randomly started attacking passersby with a knife on Saturday, was an “Islamist attacker,” Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Sunday. The attack left a teenager killed and caused five other injuries. “It is an Islamist attack with IS connections,” Karner told reporters, adding that the suspect was radicalized online “in a short space of time.”…

US-Ukraine relations at Munich Security Conference leaves Ukraine in the lurch. A few days ago, US Vice President JD Vance shocked those gathered in Munich by calling into question whether the US and Europe still even shared the same values. So when the Ukrainian diplomat? made a statement saying “We have much more confidence, we are not alone, Peace Through Strength: A Plan for Ukraine,” explained Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha to the astonishment of high-ranking officials gathered for Munich Security Conference. The statement seemed like a contradiction and raised some eyebrows considering the week’s revelations. Trump Ukraine peace talks…

The olive collection campaign is already 99 percent in Extremadura, and the data at the end of January reflects that 76,400 tons of oil have been collected in Extremadura, with an “excellent quality.” This has been highlighted by the president of Aigg Extremadura Asaja, Juan Metidieri, at a press conference this Monday in Spain, in which he has made an assessment of the olive collection campaign in the region and the production of oil, which has been developed “calmly” in the climatological and with an excellent quality in the oil. Extremadura collects 76,400 tons of oil In that sense, Metidieri…

Wednesday’s phone call between US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated a radical shift in Washington’s stance. Prior to Trump-Putin Ukraine talks, there had been no direct communication between the US and Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, Trump has said that he hopes to meet President Putin in Saudi Arabia for “US-Russia peace talks” to end the war. However, he did not say anything to suggest that Ukraine would be included in the meeting. Trump foreign policy on Russia Trump’s secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, has declared that Ukraine…

The president of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, expressed his desire that Ukraine “be a member country of the European Union in 2030”, as a solution to avoid future invasions of Russia in the country that presides over Volidimir Zelenski, to whom he expressed his support to achieve a “fair and lasting peace.” Sanchez made these statements this afternoon during his participation in Congress that the Socialist Party of La Rioja celebrates to choose Javier García as the new regional leader after his partner Concha Andreu lost the autonomous power in the elections of 2023…

Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US. They are facing delays of up to eight hours to cross the border with the United States, after the activation on Friday of security protocols and documentation inspection in the Mexican city of Tijuana, before the measures of the US president, Donald Trump. Exporters in Mexico take up to eight hours to cross the US These protocols were carried out exclusively in the export lane where heavy load transport travels, in the Otay border port, generated long lines of up to 38 kilometers and road chaos in the…

The US president, Donald Trump, consumes his tariff threats and puts his commercial partners in suspense. If at the beginning of the week he announced that he would apply rates of up to 25% to the imports of steel and aluminum, yesterday he undertook a second onslaught: he will impose reciprocal tariffs to its commercial partners. The news has not sat very well in the European Union. The community block has warned this Friday that it will react “firm” and “immediate” to unjustified commercial measures “. “The EU will react firm and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair…

There’s an important deadline for the people who live in the municipality of Madrid. Vulnerable people will not pay the garbage rate in Madrid. The deadline to apply for those reduction is Feb 28. It is available for large families, vulnerable people receiving the low incomes or government support (IMV) and owners of empty or unused housing owners can request this reduction, which will be 100% in the case of the most disadvantaged. Madrid’s municipal spokeswoman, Inma Sanz, explained at the press conference after the Governing Board that large families will benefit from a reduction similar to that in the…

Up to 1,400 killed in Bangladesh protests crackdown. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Wednesday that officials from Bangladesh’s former government systematically committed serious human rights violations as they tried to suppress anti-government protesters that ultimately toppled Sheikh Hasina’s government last year.  Bangladesh protesters struggle to recover from injuries Presenting results from a fact-finding mission, Turk also told reporters in Geneva that crimes against humanity may have been carried out. The report included testimony from senior Bangladesh officials and other evidence showing an official policy to attack and violently repress anti-government protesters and sympathizers. What…

A grenade thrown into bar in olympic village injures more than 10 people who were seriously wounded, after a grenade was thrown into a bar during happy hour in the city of Grenoble, France. Grenade thrown into bar in olympic village The incident occurred shortly after 8:00 p.m. (1900 GMT) at the bar in the Olympic Village neighbourhood, built when the city hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the criminal act of unprecedented violence that took place in a shop in the Olympic Village district, which caused more than 10 injuries, several of them…