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Feb
17
2012

Interesting point, with which I am somewhat in agreement: ""Surely someone who enters into a mortgage has a duty to meet their payments?" I ask her. "I don't agree, because we were tricked. They created a property bubble and they gave mortgages to everyone. It was a fraud in every sense of the word.""

spain tenerife property cosmos

Jan
6
2012

"On the eve of the enactment of Spain's harsh new copyright law, El Pais has published a leaked letter from the US Ambassador to the outgoing Spanish president ordering him to enact the copyright law America's industry wants to see, or face trade sanctions. "

cosmos spain copyright

Jan
2
2012

"The passing of the Sinde Law was influenced by the United States after Spain’s decade-long liberal stance on file sharing. According to WikiLeaks, the US Government drafted the law on behalf of the Spanish Government"

spain tenerife

Nov
7
2011

"The official campaign for the next Spanish elections began last Thursday night with many looking at Catalonia, which is set to be a crucial battlefield. On November 20th Spaniards will elect the new Spanish Parliament, which will then elect the new President of the Spanish Government, equivalent to Prime Minister. All polls indicate that the People’s Party (PP) will win the elections in Spain, and will very likely get an absolute majority. In addition, the same polls indicate that the Socialist Party (PSOE), the party currently running the Spanish Government, might face its worst defeat ever. The votes from Catalonia, on one hand, are essential to guarantee the PP’s absolute majority. "

cosmos Spain politics

Oct
5
2011

"El Gobierno Español, siguiendo las directrices de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), y la Respuesta del Parlamento Europeo, (al igual que otros países como Canadá, Gran Bretaña, Noruega, etc.), ha acabado por reconocer la verdadera naturaleza del “mal llamado síndrome de Fatiga Crónica”, el cual queda elevado a la categoría de enfermedad real, como el resto de las dolencias mejor conocidas.

Concretamente se sitúa dentro grupo de las enfermedades Neurológicas, asimilada a la Encefalomielitis miálgica post-vírica, -secuelas de determinadas infecciones víricas, bacterianas o tóxicas, que se dan en personas predispuestas genéticamente, según la prestigiosa revista “British Medical Journal” del año 2006, dichas secuelas afectarían principalmente al Sistema Nervioso Central, (cerebro, médula espinal y musculatura en general), amén de poder afectar a otros sistemas corporales como el Sistema Endocrino, el cardiopulmonar, gastrointestinal, musculo esquelético etc., y que constituirían los subgrupos de dicha dolencia."

Spain health me_cfs

Jun
14
2011

"What she has experienced is just corruption by the PP in Spanish politics, nothing out of the norm. "

Spain politics cosmos

May
18
2011

"what is this “trending topic”? If you are outside Spain well worth you know that they refer to a number of popular actions convened this weekend by “Democracy Real Ya”, in protest by “job insecurity, difficulties in access to housing and the lack of prospects for young people”."

Spain politics cosmos

Apr
23
2011

"In a graphic, if extreme, example of how many young Spaniards think, the papers there have all run the story of a judge who has obliged a ‘ni-ni’ youngster - one who neither works nor studies - to leave the family home. The 25 year old sued his parents in an attempt to get a monthly payment of €400 but the judge decided he was fit for work and that he should leave the family home, assisted by €200 a month from his parents."

benefits Spain cosmos

Jan
3
2011

"At a time when Spain is in the grip of a major economic crisis, the association believes that the introduction of such uncompromising legislation could herald the end of Spanish café culture." At least in the Canary Islands, people can sit outside bars for most, if not all of the year, so the effects might not be quite so badly felt as it will in other parts of Spain.

tenerife Spain

Dec
30
2010

"The increase will take monthly minimum pay to 641.50 euros (£551; $851)."

tenerife Spain

Dec
27
2010

"The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has joined forces with overseas counterparts to target the countries where the most cases take place. The DWP said the highest instances of fraud was recorded by people living in Spain, Pakistan, the US and Bangladesh."

tenerife Spain expat uk benefits cosmos

Dec
22
2010

"The Spanish House of Representatives has rejected a new copyright law that would have made the nation's file-sharing sites and services illegal. Some of the leaked #cablegate cables affirmed what many had suspected: the law had been pushed by the US government on behalf of the Hollywood studios. "

copyright tenerife Spain cosmos

"Spain was the easiest country for children to relocate to, with 93 per cent of expat parents there agreeing that their children enjoyed expat life. "

tenerife Spain expat

"There are many people whose Spanish driving licences have expired without their realising as they were expecting to receive a renewal reminder."

tenerife Spain

Nov
8
2010

Another thing about Spain I’ll probably never understand, however long I live here, is the law relating to the building of property near the sea. Or anywhere, for that matter. Hardly a week goes by without a tale of someone’s house (normally that of a for

spain property

Nov
4
2010

Spain's birth registration laws will end the father's automatic right to hand his surname down to his children before their mother's

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Researchers at the Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona found that 70% of a sample of patients tested positive for the retrovirus.

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