SPAIN THIS WEEK

Monday, 19 September 2016

16/09/2016 "Populists have taken advantage of crisis to challenge European project", says Mariano Rajoy The acting President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, remarked in a press conference following the Informal EU Meeting that cooperation and the exchange of information between countries are key in tackling terrorism. "In today's world, separation leads to irrelevance and impotence", he claimed.

14/09/2016 "The imbalances of the Spanish economy are substantially either behind us or being resolved", says Mariano Rajoy The acting President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, maintained at the presentation of a book by the Minister for Economic Affairs and Competition, Luis de Guindos, that since the end of 2011, the most significant raft of reforms has been carried out in the recent history of Spain. The main result, he said, is that unemployment is now falling at a rate of 9% whereas back then it was growing at a rate of 10%.

12/09/2016 Mariano Rajoy receives President of European Council, Donald Tusk The acting President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, received the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, at Moncloa Palace, who was on a working visit to Madrid with the aim of preparing for the Informal Summit of Heads of State and Government that will take place in Bratislava (Slovakia) on Friday, 16 September.

16/09/2016 Government authorises more than 115 million euros to be allocated to conservation and maintenance of national highway network The Council of Ministers also authorised the construction of two antennas on the installations of the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (Spanish acronym: INTA) and has given the go-ahead for the acquisition of material to improve the security of the National Police.

16/09/2016	This year Spain will pass the 250,000 donor mark thanks to the new National Bone Marrow Plan
14/09/2016	National Police arrest Moroccan citizen in Manresa (Barcelona) for spreading Jihadi ideology through various virtual platforms
14/09/2016	5,312 illegal immigrants arrived on Spanish coasts in 2015 compared with 4,552 in 2014
13/09/2016	A family of Syrian refugees arrives in Spain from Lebanon to be received in Córdoba
13/09/2016	Joint Statement on Libya by the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States
13/09/2016	Fall in CPI eases to 0.1% in August due to energy prices