Living Articles
SELF-EMPLOYED WANT MORE BENEFITS
A TOTAL of 85.1 per cent of self-employed workers believe they should be able to earn 12 months’ worth of dole money if they are forced to cease trading instead of the current six months.
Members of the National Federation of Associations of Autonomous Workers (ATA) believe that by paying an extra two per cent in […]
MADRID´S MAIN STREET CELEBRATES 100th BIRTHDAY
On Monday, the city of Madrid celebrated the 100th anniversary of one of it´s emblematic street, the Gran Via, a place where Hemingway lived during the Spanish civil war.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos and his wife Queen Sofia unveiled a bronze and aluminium plaque on the 1.3 kilometre avenue to mark the occasion.
Traffic on the Gran […]
DECLINE IN SPANISH HOUSE PRICES SLOWS
On Tuesday official data issues showed that Spanish housing prices eased their slide in the fourth quarter of 2009 but analysts say an oversupply of homes still weighs on prospects for a recovery in the key sector.
The National Statistics Institure (INS) say home prices fell 4.3 percent as compared to other years in the fourth […]
MORE INTERNET USERS THAN TV VIEWERS
RESIDENTS in Spain now spend more time on the internet than they do watching the TV, research has shown.
Mediascope Europe revealed that people living in Spain spend an average of 13.6 hours a week surfing the net for leisure, rather than work, purposes.
Spain falls into fifth place behind the Danes, at 14.6 hours; the UK, […]
Make your vote count
If you keep up with the UK news, you´ll be aware that an election has to take place before the 3rd June this year.
What you may not be aware of, is that you may still be eligible to vote, even if you live abroad.
There are only a small number of British expatriates on the electoral […]
CHANGES TO EUROPEAN HEALTH INSURANCE CARD
THE Euro Weekly News has received a number of enquiries from concerned readers with regards to changes in the issuing of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) to UK State Pensioners Resident in Spain. We spoke to David Burrage, of the former ‘British Expats Association’ (BEA) in order to determine the facts.
The confusion was generated […]
Severe weather continues
The heavy rains affecting various regions of Spain over the past few hours, especially Andalucia, have caused roads to flood and have left people stranded. A number of reservoirs have also had to be emptied because they were reaching their capacity.
In Málaga towns have been cut off, leaving almost five hundred people stranded, 23 […]
Spain and Wills
It is often said that there are two certainties in life - birth and death. We are not given much of an opportunity to plan the first of those events but we have all our (hopefully long) lives to plan for the second.
NIE number - what is it?
Here we explain what an NIE is and how to get one.
Bank accounts
Resident bank account? Non-resident bank account? We explain the difference and tell you which one is right for you.