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- Pedrosa MotoGP Win Overshadowed by Tragic Death
Motorcycle racing endured its second tragedy in eight days Sunday, this time at the San Marino Grand Prix yesterday. Shoya Tomizawa became the second teenage rider to die in the sport when the 19-year-old fell and was hit by two trailing riders during the Moto2 race. Tomizawa’s crash was similar to the accident that claimed [...]
- Spanish Government Wary of ETA Cease-Fire Announcement
The Basque separatist group ETA have announced a unilateral cease-fire but Spain’s interior minister said today that their cease-fire statement is insufficient Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, in the Spanish government’s first major reaction, said that the statement, released to media on Sunday, is “very far from the minimums” that the Spanish government has laid [...]
- Support for General Strike in Spain Losing Ground
The number of Spanish workers who said they were going to join a general strike over labour reforms set for September 29th has dropped to 9% in August, a dip of six percent from July, a poll published yesterday showed. The survey, published in El Pais, showed the sharp decline from 15% in July who [...]
- Zapatero to Explain Spain’s Mission in Afghanistan
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has offered to speak to the Spanish parliament to explain details of the Spanish mission in Afghanistan. As many as 92 Spanish military personnel have died in Afghanistan, where Spain has formed part of the United Nations mission in the country since 2002. The last two Spaniards to [...]
- Brit to be Extradited to Spain on Suspicion of Murder
A British man wanted in Spain on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend has been ordered by a judge to be extradited. Christopher Chittock, 36, of Ipswich, Suffolk, was detained on a European arrest warrant last month on suspicion of killing his girlfriend, Sarah Shields. The body of the 23-year-old woman from Ipswich was found by [...]
- FIFA: Spain and Portugal are “Ideal” Hosts For World Cup
Spain and Portugal boast “ideal venues” for the World Cup and have a strong chance of being elected as tournament host, according to the head of FIFA’s inspection team. The pair have individual experience of hosting major football tournaments but have entered a joint bid to attract the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022, [...]
- ETA Ceasefire Could be Near as Basque Tourism Flourishes
Tourists are strolling on beach promenades and filling outdoor cafes in Spain’s Basque region, where burning cars and screaming police sirens now seem only a distant nightmare. The region received more than 250,000 tourists in July, the highest number in one month since comparable statistics began to be compiled in 1992. Local officials attribute the [...]
- Wanted Russian Nightclub Owner Arrested in Spain
Investigators in Spain have arrested a suspect from Russia in connection with a fire that killed 156 people in a nightclub in Russia in 2009, the Spanish National Police said today. Authorities in Spain arrested Konstantin Mrykhin, who was the commercial director of a nightclub in Perm, Russia where fireworks triggered a fire and panic [...]
- Spanish Summer Road Deaths at a 50 Year Low
Spanish traffic police who are issuing fewer speeding fines to protest a pay cut have been told to cut it out despite there being few deaths on Spanish roads during the summer season since 1962. Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba gave no figures, but says the number of fines is definitely down since Civil Guard [...]
- Zapatero: Workers Need to be Flexible, Like in Germany
Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said today that his nation needed to accept temporary pain for a better economic future, but said Spanish workers were often unwilling to be flexible. “All countries make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow,” he told a press conference in Tokyo when asked how he will sell unpopular [...]
- X-Factor Contestants Wreck Marbella Villa
It is not the sort of behaviour likely to impress the boss ahead of the big interview but rowdy UK X-Factor contestants have taken all 15 minutes of their future careers into their own hands by ruining Simon Cowell’s rented luxury villa in Spain. The music mogul was left furious after the wannabes caused thousands [...]
- Budget Deficit in Spain Drops by 48%
Spain’s budget deficit narrowed 48% year-on-year in the first seven months of the year after the government’s austerity measures started working. According to a statement released by the Economy Ministry, the deficit totaled € 25.77 billion, or 2.44% of the country’s gross domestic product. A year ago, the deficit was € 49.8 billion or 4.73% [...]
- Spain: Increase in Warmer Days Compared to Rest of World
Given the impact of climatic extremes on agriculture and health in Spain, researchers at the University of Salamanca (USAL) have analysed the two factors most representative of these thermal extremes between 1950 and 2006 – warm days and cold nights. The results for mainland Spain show an increase in the number of warm days greater [...]
- Telefonica Changes Focus Away from Acquisitions
Spain’s Telefonica plans to focus on developing new internet services and growing its business organically, after nearly a decade of aggressive acquisitions, its chief executive officer said late yesterday. “One of Telefonica’s strategic priorities is to set up a global division to develop and implement new internet products and services,” CEO Julio Linares told journalists [...]
- Britons Arrested After Drug Bust in Ibiza
As many as 24 Britons are being held by police after a major operation against drug traffickers in Ibiza. Officers from Spain’s paramilitary police force targeted organised British gangs who were operating from houses on the Spanish island’s west coast, in the holiday resort of San Antonio. They seized cocaine, ecstasy pills and other drugs. [...]
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A recent study published by a British Service Comparison Website – U-Switch – states that, in the terms of quality of life, Ireland and Britain comes rock bottom, even though these two countries enjoys the highest average income in Europe. At the top of the index we find Spain.
19 different factors was assessed, in this study, that is affecting quality of life, ranging from working and income conditions to healthcare, education and the cost of living. Even having the highest average income in Europe, Brits pays between up to 18 per cent more for fuel and 49 per cent more for gas, topped by soaring high housing costs and food prices. According to the European Quality of Life Index, the Brits have the shortest holidays, lowest life expectancy and latest retirement age. (Statistics from ten European countries). Coming in last in the Index, from U-switch, is Ireland even worse off than The Brits. "We may earn substantially more than our European neighbors but when it comes to quality of life we remain the sick man of Europe," said Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy at U-Switch. "Soaring food prices and inflation, not to mention high property costs, are placing the biggest squeeze on disposable incomes in well over a decade," she added, noting also below-average investment in health and education services. The Spaniards have the lowest average income in Europe, but essential goods are far cheaper and the tax lower. Spain has 36 public holidays a year, compared to 28 in Britain. And while Spain has the most sunshine hours in Europe, Britain and Ireland has the fewest. The Spanish also have a longer life expectancy, making it to almost 80 years on average. Maybe free time has a greater value than income does; at least that is what is concluded in this survey!
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