Archive for September, 2007

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Royal photo burner released without the €10,000 euro bail demanded by the prosecution.

High Court judge, Santiago Pedraz, released Jaume Roura Carellas - the man arrested for publicly burning photos of King Juan Carlos during a protest in Girona last weekend without imposing the €10,000 euro bail demanded by the prosecution service or any other kind of restrictions on his freedom.During the ten-minute hearing, Jaume Roura Carellas, who [...]

25Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Spain reveals aid plan for young renters

19th September 2007
MADRID - AFP - The Spanish government on Tuesday unveiled a financial aid package designed to help youngsters struggling to find their feet in the rental market.
The soaring price of property and rents is set to be an electoral issue moving towards a general election scheduled for next March and Socialist Prime Minister [...]

19Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Catalan police identify one of the Royal Photo burners

One of the Catalan separatists who burned a photos of King Juan Carlos and the rest of the Royal Family during a demonstration in Girona last Wednesday, has been identified, according to a spokesman from the regional Interior ministry. Joan Delort also confirmed that a full account of the incident has been sent to the [...]

17Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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‘Spiderman’ scales Barcelona´s Agbar Tower

A crowd of more than two hundred could only stare up in sheer amazement as celebrity sky-scraper climber, Alain Robert, better known as the ‘French Spiderman’, took only an hour an half to ascend and descend the 140 metre, thirty-storey Torre Agbar in Barcelona’s Plaza de las Glorias last Friday.
Robert, who first climbed the tower [...]

17Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Radical Catalans burn pictures of King Juan Carlos at a demo

A group of Catalan nationalists burned photographs of Spanish King Juan Carlos in protest at a visit to the region by the monarch yesterday. 
“Catalans have no king, get out of Girona, Bourbon,” shouted a group of four hundred demonstrators, as the king visited the town in the north east of Spain. He was on his way to inaugurate [...]

14Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Director of Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid resigns

Ana Martínez de Aguilar is leaving after the Minister for Culture announced plans to modernise the contemporary art museum
Ana Martínez de Aguilar has resigned as the Director of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Her resignation comes after the Minister for Culture, César Antonio Molina, announced a modernisation plan for both the Reina Sofia and the National Library [...]

7Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Around 300 Estate Agencies have had to close their doors in the province of Alicante

During the real estate boom there were as many as 7,000 real estate offices in the province of Alicante.

The slowdown in the real estate market in Alicante Province has led to 300 estate agencies shutting down according to today’s edition of Información.The newspaper says that during the recent real estate boom there were as many as [...]

4Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Back to work in Spain

As Spain returns to work, it’s still not entirely clear whether Post Vacation Depression actually exists.
Today sees the return to work after the August break for the majority of Spaniards. A post vacation mood of depression seems to be flowing across the country.
One wonders if it is a real problem for society, or are we just [...]

3Sep2007 | admin | 0 comments | Continued