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01.03.2008 - Official data has showed that French consumer confidence dropped to its lowest ebb in January amid worries about increasing food and energy prices.
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German nude flights

01.03.2008 - A travel agency in eastern Germany are offering nudists the chance to fly naked for a day to the Baltic Sea resort of Usehom for 499 euros.
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Norwegians oppose Europe

01.03.2008 - A opinion poll, conducted by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, has found that if Norway held a new referendum on joining the European Union 54.3 per cent of the population would vote against entry.
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ICO to help with liquidity

01.03.2008 - A high ranking Spanish government official has announced that if small banks or cajas suffer from short term cash flow problems they can rely on the Official Credit Institute (ICO) for help.
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Reserve fund investment

01.03.2008 - The Spanish Labour Minister, Jesús Caldera, recently revealed that the government intends to put an additional sum of five billion euros into the Social Security’s reserve fund. This follows the extra four billion that was put into the fund last February and 4.3 billion that was added in July.
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Legal immigrants rise

01.03.2008 - The Spanish government recently revealed that the number of legal immigrants in Spain increased by a million last year to 3,979,074.
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Profits for Bankinter

01.03.2008 - Bankinter recently announced that net profits for last year increased by 73.6 per cent to 361,86 million euros. The bank said that profits were thanks to a capital gain of 110 million euros from the sale of its insurance business Mapfre.
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Zapatero wants to give a 400 euros rebate to everybody

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Election promises

Madrid - 01.03.2008 - Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister, claims that if his party is re-elected in the March elections that every taxpayer in the country will receive a 400 euros tax rebate next year when they make their IRPF declaration, and those that earn the lowest salaries will have no personal tax to pay at all.
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Property not risky

01.03.2008 - Despite a number of properties in Spain being built illegally property experts claim that houses can be purchased in the country “without any risk” as long as care is taken.
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Repsol shares

01.03.2008 - According to the CNWV, the Spanish market regulator, French insurer Axa and British bank Barclays own 4.2 per cent and 3.2 per cent respectively of the oil company Repsol.
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Binmen and sweepers stage walkout

Arona - 09.09.2010 - Arona's tourist image is set to take a blow as scores of municipal binmen and road sweepers begin an indefinite strike today, leaving Los Cristianos and parts of Playa de Las Américas unattended. more...

Morocco warns against flotilla

Las Palmas - 09.09.2010 - A flotilla of boats from Gran Canaria in support of independence for the Western Sahara will not be allowed to approach the coast of Morocco, say sources in the African country. more...

Cruise passengers tell of nightmare at sea

Lanzarote - 09.09.2010 - Passengers who were disembarked in Arrecife yesterday have described their 'nightmare cruise' aboard a Pullmantur liner. more...

Preisdent threatens action over shipping costs

Canary Islands - 08.09.2010 - Canarian president Paulino Rivero has warned shipping lines that he will take them to Spain's Competition Board over their massive hike in freight charges which could lead to heavy price rises in the islands. more...

Hunger strikers hospitalised

Candelaria - 08.09.2010 - Two of the Cho Vito residents who are staging a hunger strike in the centre of Santa Cruz over the forthcoming demolition of their homes had to be admitted to hospital last night due to their weak condition. more...

Hunger strikers reject mayor plea

Candelaria - 07.09.2010 - Owners of homes threatened with demolition in the Cho Vito district of Candelaria have refused to suspend their hunger strike ahead of a planned meeting between the town's mayor and the Spanish authorities in Madrid. more...

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