Tourism reboot: Balearics receive millions to develop new tourism strategy
THE Balearics are to get a €233 million tourism boost from the European Union. The €133 million will come from a €2 billion fund set aside to help develop the Strategy for
EU demands countries use their ‘Covid passport’ to ease travelling restrictions from overseas
THE European Union is asking that restrictions on holiday travel from overseas are relaxed in line with use of a ‘Covid passport.” Under new plans, those with the most recent dose of
FROM FARM TO FORK: EU announces farming overhaul to improve animal welfare and tackle climate change
Other aims of the European strategy include tackling climate change, protecting the environment, ensuring fair economic returns for producers at every stage of the supply chain, and boosting organic farming.
FAT FIGHTERS: EU enforces limit on artificial trans fats in food products
Fried fast food is the most infamous culprit, although artificial trans fats can also be found in certain types of margarines and vegetable oils, bakery products and frozen pizzas, among others.
Spain’s financial capital set to triple thanks to ‘tsunami’ of money from EU
SPAIN is slated to receive a multibillion cash injection from the EU as part of a scheme to boost the economies of Member States that have taken a battering during the pandemic.
Down in the dumps: Spain ignoring recycling targets
SPAIN has been ignoring critical European-wide waste recycling targets. The country has not just been missing a 50% recycling (or re-use) target set by the EU, but the situation is getting worse.
EU expected to help fund eco-friendly underground highway between Spanish coast and inland Costa Blanca
A MULTI-MILLION euro underground highway linking Torrevieja and Orihuela is to be discussed this week, with important funding from the EU. Speedy transport links have been needed for some time in the
BREAKING: Brexit done deal!
A BREXIT trade deal has been done, according to Downing Street. A UK government source confirmed the news, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen describing the agreement as fair, balanced
Brits to be barred from entering Spain and any other EU country from January 1 under current COVID-19 travel restrictions
BRITISH tourists will be forbidden from entering Spain and any other EU country from January 1, according to the current coronavirus restrictions The rules dictate that there can be no non-essential travel
Last throw of the dice: UK and EU negotiators to try and overcome critical differences over Brexit trade deal
TALKS to hammer out a post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU are set to resume today. The UK’s chief negotiator Lord Frost will meet the EU’s Michel Barnier in
Trump says Spain ‘having hard time’ with COVID-19 and US coped ‘much better’ with virus than EU
The president told a White House press briefing on Thursday that he is confident his country has 'surpassed the peak' of infections
€140 billion COVID bailout for Spain announced by EU
SPAIN has hit the jackpot after an EU bailout fund to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic was announced. EU leaders from all 27 member states unanimously agreed to set up a fund
EU plans to ban travellers from the US when borders open
TRAVELLERS from the US are set to be barred from entering the EU once borders reopen next week, it has been announced.
COVID-19: Spain opens borders to UK and EU visitors from June 21
BRITS will be allowed to holiday in Spain in a week’s time, the Spanish Government has said. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that Spain would open its borders with all EU and
COVID-19: EU recommends ‘partial and gradual reopening’ of borders for worldwide travellers from July 1
THE European Commission has recommended the ‘partial and gradual reopening’ of borders to countries outside of Europe from July 1. Only EU citizens are currently allowed in and out, but even this
Spain among top 5 EU countries for recycling clothes
SPAIN is in the top five of EU countries for most Google searches regarding recycling clothes, it has been announced.
Spain and Europe’s COVID-19 response hampered by insufficient testing and lack of PPE, reveal minutes of EU coronavirus meetings
INSUFFICIENT testing hampered Spain and the EU’s COVID-19 response, newly-released documents have revealed. Minutes from the meetings of the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) show that EU Member States
EU funding and Spanish teamwork ensures 700 tonnes of healthy food gets to vulnerable groups in region
MORE THAN 700 tonnes of fruit and vegetables has been distributed to vulnerable groups in the region, thanks to the EU and Spain’s Agriculture Ministry. Around 15 tons of foodstuffs a day
COVID-19: Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, 69, tests positive for coronavirus as EU-UK negotiations delayed and London ‘facing lockdown’
MICHEL Barnier has tested positive for COVID-19. The EU’s top Brexit negotiator revealed his diagnosis on social media, adding that he was confident in his recovery. “Yesterday I tested positive for COVID-19,”
BREAKING: EU set to BAN all ‘non-essential’ travel for 30 days after becoming epicentre of coronavirus pandemic
THE EU is set to ban non-essential travel to the bloc for 30 days in a bid to reduce coronavirus contagion. The measure has been proposed by European Commission president Ursula von
COVID-19: RECESSION warnings for Europe as more than 120 infected in Spain and EU declares region as ‘high risk’ for residents
ECONOMISTS have warned that the ongoing coronavirus outbreak could lead Europe into a recession and cut global economic growth in half in 2020. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Spain receives the most asylum claims in the EU
SPAIN has the most asylum claims out of all EU states.
EU widens investigation into Ryanair for potential ‘unfair advantage’ in Spain marketing deals
RYANAIR has seen the probe into whether it received an unfair advantage from the Spanish government widened. EU competition regulators first launched an investigation in 2013 into marketing schemes offered to airlines
IN PICS: As Brexit day hits Spain, the Olive Press remains firmly European
Once the clock strikes 12 tonight, we will not stop fighting for the rights of expats and Spaniards alike
Brexit is a ‘golden opportunity’ for Spain to take back sovereignty of Gibraltar, says Spanish MEP
SPANISH MEP Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo has demanded Spain take the ‘golden opportunity’ of Brexit to renegotiate the status of Gibraltar. Speaking to media in Aragon, the former Minister for Foreign Affairs said
British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott issues Brexit warning to expats as UK prepares to leave EU in just 17 days
“You have time and there are plenty of appointments in most provinces, but do make it a New Year's Resolution to get it done as soon as you can!”