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Pointless economic policies
Published on 2011-08-20 04:49:41
The Spanish Government has decided to reduce VAT from 8% to 4% for the purchase of new homes as an exceptional and temporary measure (it will be maintained until 31st December) to reduce Spanish budget deficit as well as to restimulate economic activity in the construction sector. As Phil Connors in the Groundhog Day film, [...]
Spanish early elections add pressure on Catalan parties
Published on 2011-08-02 08:12:34
Finally Mr. Zapatero made the long-awaited announcement: the Spanish elections will be hold November 20th, four months before the end of the current government’s mandate in March. For Catalan political parties this is no surprise, but it certainly adds complexity to the internal proceedings to chose their candidate. Let’s take for instance ERC, the left-wing Catalan [...]
EU food labelling linguistic regime
Published on 2011-07-11 03:10:43
Last week many Catalan media talked about the Sommer Report, a piece of European legislation that seeks to provide more and better information to consumers. However, it was the rules concerning the linguistic regime on food labels what made this issue appear in the news. Three Catalan MEPs -Ramon Tremosa, from the Centre-Right Catalan [...]
