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Savings Guaranteed in Spain |
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 To combat the world financial crisis Spanish PM Zapatero has announced savings bank guarantees of €100,000 top limit. This is double the limit so far set by most other European countries.
"We are going to provide an injection to finance the needs of companies and citizens until the markets once again start working normally," he said as he outlined measures by his socialist government to face the global credit crisis.
he also voiced confidence in the country's banks, saying the were facing up to the global financial crisis better than lenders in other countries because they had a stronger provisioning system and were not as exposed to toxic debt. |
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Antonio Banderas joins malagueños for Semana Santa |
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 Malaga-born actor Antonio Banderas comes home whenever he can for Easter, and takes part in the processions like thousands of others all over Andalucía. This year is no exception and his wife Melanie Griffith, who is also now an enthusiast, has been following events closely with the rest of the Banderas family, experiencing their first Semana Santa without Antonio¹s recently deceased father. Good Friday sees the most solemn night of Malaga¹s Holy Week celebrations.
photos, Antonio Banderas preparing for the procession, right with his mother, Ana Banderas and Melanie Griffith. |
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Ryanair announces new Bournemouth-Spain services |
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Ryanair's commercial director for Spain and Portugal, María Isabel Rodríguez, announced at a press conference earlier today three new services connecting Bournemouth with Murcia, Málaga and Palma de Mallorca airports from the start of next April.
Ms Rodríguez explained that there will be four flights a week to both Murcia and Málaga, starting on the 4th April, though there will be only three flights a week to Palma, starting on the 3rd.
As a result, from next spring, Ryanair will be running flights from Murcia's San Javier airport to no fewer than eight UK destinations. |
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Tourists Visiting Spain grew last year by 1 Million |
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The number of tourists visiting Spain grew by one million (+1.7%) last year from 58.2 to 59.2 million, the Spanish Tourism ministry revealed today.
Based on statistics compiled as part of the Frontier Tourist Movement Survey (FRONTUR), the ministry calculates that total tourist spending rose 4.2% (January-November) with each spending, on average, €865 euros (+1.14%), at a rate of €94 a day (+4.6%).
Tourists from the UK (16.3 million) and Germany (10 million) continue to be the most numerous, albeit with below average respective growth rates (+0.5% and -0.7%).
With respect to destination, Cataluña (15.2 million, +1.6%), the Balearic Islands (10.2 million, +0.7%) and the Canary Islands (9.4 million, -1.6%), continue to be the most popular. |
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Having attended the inauguration of the AVE high speed train route serving Madrid-Segovia-Valladolid yesterday, president Zapatero is on the south coast today for the opening of the Madrid-Malaga route.
Accompanied by under-fire Development minister, Magdalena Alvarez, as well as Andalucia's socialist regional president, Manuel Chavez, president Zapatero has been enjoying an extravagant civic reception at Malaga station that included a performance by flamenco star, Pastora Soler.
Ms Alvarez explained that the new link will cut the journey time from the capital to the south coast to just two and a half hours and that 1.7 million passengers are expected to use the service in the first year. |
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