All Posts Tagged With: "spain"

11 reasons to hate driving in Spain

I’ve put together 11 things to hate driving in Spain just for fun because we love Spaniards really! 1. Spaniards have little respect and are not very courteous on the road. Just try pulling out of a turning and see who stops. You might be in for a long one! 2. Hogging the outside lanes [...]

14Jul2009 | Catalonia | 6 comments | Continued

Anti-credit crunch plans to take effect soon says Zapatero

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain’s president announced in Brussels yesterday that he hopes to see the first effects of Europe-wide anti-credit crunch plans by the end of this month. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero says the fight against the global recession has become the central focus of the European Union. Although Zapatero says Spain’s financial situation [...]

23Mar2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued

Thierry Henry states that Catalonia is not Spain

Own goal or a winner? Thierry Henry takes aim at Spain’s claim on Catalonia ‘is not Spain’ Away games could be about to become a lot more difficult for one of the world’s greatest footballers. Thierry Henry, the former Arsenal striker who transferred to Barcelona two years ago, has provoked the wrath of millions after [...]

2Mar2009 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued

Real Madrid president Calderon steps down today

Real Madrid president Ramon Calderon will step down on Friday following newspaper allegations of irregularities at the club’s general assembly last month, Spanish media reported on Thursday. The reports said Calderon, who has denied any wrongdoing, was pressured into resigning by several members of the Real management board and will be replaced by Vicente Boluda, [...]

16Jan2009 | Steve | 0 comments | Continued

Cristiano Ronaldo wins the Ballon d’Or

Cristiano Ronaldo has been awarded the Ballon d’Or by France Football Magazine. Ronaldo was widely tipped to be the winner, after scoring 42 goals as Manchester United won both the Premier League and the Champions League. Lionel Messi of Barcelona FC was 2nd, with Fernando Torres – Liverpool coming 3rd. Ronaldo picked up an amazing [...]

3Dec2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued

Car sales in Spain plunge to 15-year low

Car sales in Spain fell by almost 50 per cent last month in another sign that the country’s economy is hurtling further downward. Anfac, the car trade association, said that 63,068 vehicles were sold in November – a decrease of 49.6 per cent from the 125,206 sold in November last year. This was the biggest [...]

2Dec2008 | Catalonia | 1 comment | Continued

Josep Lluis Carod Rovira wants to start a new ERC

Barcelona: Josep Lluís Carod Rovira left as leader of ERC last June but has shown great interest in becoming an influence in the Catalan Republican Party as he demonstrated on Tuesday during the conference of “30 años de independentismo de izquierda: pasado, present y futuro” that took place at la biblioteca Jaume Fuster in the [...]

27Nov2008 | Catalonia | 2 comments | Continued

Hats Off To The Economist’s Article

I’ve got to take my hat off to The Economist for publishing an excellent article about Catalonia called “The party’s over” last week. It has caused great concern here in Catalonia and there’s been much calling for public apologies, articles being banned etc etc. In my opinion the article was very well written and touched [...]

16Nov2008 | Catalonia | 19 comments | Continued

Catalonia Saturday round up

Another week has passed us by and we have a new American president in the shape of Barack Obama. Liked the British press yesterday when they had a photo of Obama leaving a gym in Chicago with a baseball cap and trainers on – the caption was…….wait for it “Yo-Bama”. While Zapatero insisted to the [...]

8Nov2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued

More Spanish gripes this week with Alonso and company

I’m a bit fed up this week with Alonso’s gripes. He’s thrown his rattle out of his pram again and says that if he can help anyone win the formula 1 drivers’ championship he’ll help Massa. More sour grapes from the little Spaniard I’m afraid – could you ever imagine Massa and Alonso in the [...]

15Oct2008 | Catalonia | 0 comments | Continued