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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…

As the African Union (AU) is preparing to elect its next commission chairperson in February. Three key contenders are now in the spotlight to fill Africa’s top diplomatic seat so who can fix Africa’s problems? There’s a few key issues that any leader must contend with; unity between AU member states and managing the relationship with super powers, whilst ensuring the capitalist structure does not rape every resource from Africa’s continent. whilst finding a path so Africa must break free from foreign aid dependence. One is Djibouti’s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, a seasoned diplomat who is used to navigating…

It has been a busy week so far for the US administration with political warfare taking place everywhere. Trump and Musk in the White House spells trouble for the world, as they look to dominate the global agenda with America first!  This week began with the concern that the Israelis are threatening to restart the genocide, and Trump’s affinity for beachfront property in Gaza. A diplomatic row between the world and the US Although the crisis and genocide in Gaza is of pressing concern There is a diplomatic row brewing between the world and the US. With the Israelis and Elon Musk anchoring the…

There is no aspect that matters more to a retired future than that of the amount of your pension. It is not for less: when he becomes a pensioner that benefit will replace his salary and will become, except in exceptions, in his main source of income until the date of his death. One aspect to keep in mind is that not all workers can collect the retirement tax pension. The General Social Security Law establishes a minimal period of mandatory compliance contribution. Its article 205 (you can consult it in this link) makes it clear so that in order…

Less administrative obstacles for SMEs in Spain as the Governing Council of the Board of Extremadura has given the green light to the processing of the draft of the Open Market Law of Extremadura, which seeks to ensure free movement and establishment of economic operators within the Autonomous Community. Less administrative obstacles for SMEs He stressed that with this law, it will “be facilitated” that companies that operate in other territories can do it in Extremadura “without demanding any additional requirements” to which they have already demanded in their origin territory. So with this step forward, the Board intends to…

Two private jets collided on Scottsdale Airport’s runway in the southwestern US state of Arizona on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring others, officials said. “A Learjet 35A veered off the runway after landing and crashed into a Gulfstream 200 business jet on the ramp at Scottsdale Municipal Airport in Arizona around 2:45 p.m. local time Monday, Feb. 10 (2145 UTC),” according to the US Federal Aviation Administration. At least four people were injured in the crash, according to Scottsdale Fire Department Captain Dave Folio. The FAA added that the number of people on board the colliding jets was…

On the opening day of an AI summit in Paris co-hosted by India, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday a European AI strategy would be unveiled the following day at the event. He declared that France was in the race for artificial intelligence development and called on attendees to choose Europe — broadly seen as lagging far behind the US and China in the sector — for their business needs. Speaking in English, he said “we will adopt the Notre Dame de Paris strategy” on AI projects that saw France rebuild the renowned cathedral in just five years after a devastating…

The lack of professionals and labor costs and the price of energy is killing the economy.  Entrepreneurs maintain the perception of global risk for this first semester of 2025 at the same levels as in the last six months of 2024, while a worsening is noted in the case of Spain. Specifically, 51.4% consider that it will remain in Aragon, while 29.4% points to improvement, which represents 1.4 percentage points more in relation to the previous semester. Only 19.3% believe that there will be a worsening, a percentage that drops from 23.4% of the last six months of 2024. In…

US President Donald Trump has placed new conditions on further financial and military aid to Ukraine. On Monday, he told reporters that Washington would only continue aiding Ukraine in warding off Russian aggression in exchange for rare earth minerals. Kyiv had already indicated it would be willing to trade access to these valuable natural resources for Western support. In fact, it was one of the points Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had outlined in the “victory plan” that he presented late last year when it was still unclear who would occupy the White House in 2025. At the time, Zelenskyy had been in talks with…

Protesters blocked roads across Serbia on Sunday, marking 100 days since the collapse of a canopy at a train station in the northern city of Novi Sad. Hundreds of students blocked a major highway and bridge in the capital, Belgrade, for seven hours. The protest was accompanied by 15 minutes of silence for the victims, with protesters throwing 15 white roses that had been painted red into the Sava river that runs through Belgrade. Also on Sunday, demonstrators blocked three major roundabouts in Novi Sad and threw roses into the Danube. The protests are part of a campaign led by…