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The court gives 20 days to the Carboneras City Council to cancel the Algarrobico construction license

The Superior Court of Justice of Andalusia (TSJA) has ordered the City Council of the Almería municipality of Carboneras – where the El Agarrobico hotel, illegally built in the Cabo de Gata Natural Park, is located – to issue a resolution within 20 days to annul the building license that authorized the construction of that building in 2003, a symbol of speculation on the coast. The Andalusian high court warns that, if the City Council does not comply with its request, the TSJA itself may annul it directly, as stipulated in the Administrative Litigation Law.Continue reading

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BAG: Termination effective despite formal error in mass layoff notification

The case involved a machine setter and operator who has been working for a key manufacturer and machine builder since 2016. The company produced and sold, among other things, key blanks, locking cylinders, locking systems and key cutting machines, but had to file for insolvency at the beginning of November 2024. The later defendant was appointed as insolvency administrator. He informed the three-member works council “about his intention to close the company and lay off all remaining employees,” according to a press release. Wrong number in mass layoff notice… After the parties agreed on a reconciliation of interests on February…

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The Government estimates the total executed after the damage at 9.6 billion and the Consell describes it as “half-truths”

The Government of Spain has estimated the total amount executed after the damage of October 29, 2024, which left 230 fatalities, at €9.6 billion, of which €8 billion is non-refundable aid. However, the Generalitat Valenciana, although it has refused to “enter into controversies”, has accused the central Executive of “telling tailored truths” and of “selling as aid something that we all pay for with our pockets.” This has been revealed by both administrations after the meeting of the Joint Commission for the reconstruction and recovery after the damage caused in the Valencian Community by the dana.Continue reading

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The UCO sees “arbitrariness” in the Red.es awards that Peinado investigates: “Barrabés is the good one and the others have to go down no matter what”

“Think that Barrabés is the good one and the others have to go down no matter what.” This is one of the messages analyzed by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard in a report that it delivered last February to the European Prosecutor’s Office and that is now in the hands of Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, who on June 19 clarified that the businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés is the only one accused of alleged prevarication and fraud against the interests of the European Union in this branch of the investigation of the Begoña Gómez case. The agents…

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A kind of ‘Idealist’ for depopulated areas in Castilla-La Mancha with empty homes that are rehabilitated…and it works

When David and his family decided to move from the Madrid district of San Blas to the small town of Arbancón, in Guadalajara, he knew that the biggest challenge was going to be finding a rental home that was also in good condition. His case was one of many. “There are families who want to start a business here, open bars, cheese shops or continue with honey and they can’t because they can’t find housing,” he says. Arbancón is in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, one of the demographic deserts of Europe, where this curve is. Its 85 municipalities, according…

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Catalonia accumulates a deficit of 140,000 homes in the last five years

The Spanish and Catalan economies expanded again last year at an unusual rate among large advanced economies. Catalonia, specifically, expanded by 2.7%, well above the euro zone as a whole. And he did it in a healthier way, according to the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce. The entity warns that a “sectoral recomposition” is taking place towards higher quality activities and anticipates that productivity will increase after investment per worker in 2025 reached historical highs. Now, the well-being of households is increasingly burdened by the serious housing crisis that the Chamber of Commerce attributes to an accommodation deficit that in the…

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