News archive for April 2010
European airspace still at a standstill
Most European countries have kept their airspace either partially or entirely closed today due to the cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland. Germany, the United Kingdom and Belgium will keep their airspace closed until 18:00 GMT and the Netherlands until 12:00 GMT, whilst Austria reopened its airspace this morning, a move also made by Italy, […]
EU transport ministers meet to discuss flight chaos
EU transport ministers will meet on Monday, mostly via video conference to discuss recent test flights through the ash cloud which has been severely disrupting air travel and amid pressure to ease airspace restrictions. Ministers from the 27 nation bloc will analyse the test flights’ results during a videoconference due to get underway at 3:00 […]
Internet piracy and the Spanish DVD market
Spain is looking likely to become the second country, after South Korea, to be vetoed by the main Hollywood film distributors after DVD sales are estimated to have fallen 75% over the past five years because of piracy. Michael Lynton, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment said that people are downloading movies in such large […]
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 […]
Car sales soar in March
New car sales soared by a record 63.1 percent in Spain in March in comparison to the same month last year and is probably due to the new government incentive programme. A total of 124,756 new cars were registered during the month up from 76,501 in March 2009 and from 124,302 in March 2008, the […]
Madrid’s main street celebrated 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 […]