SURPRISE SURPRISE! THE EMPLOYERS’ CONFEDERATION IS HAPPY ABOUT PAY HIKE! »
Antonio Garamendi, President of the powerful profit-driven Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations, didn’t seem to be even remotely put out by the 5.5% rise in the national minimum wage that the left-leaning Spanish Government has approved on 22 January 2020. But the Government wants another pay hike in 2021 and it looks like beyond a certain red line the business organizations will no longer play along. The era of a progressive government in Spain has started, after years of conservative rule that consigned 13% of the labor force to working poverty. How long will the new era last?
HOW TO BOYCOTT COCA-COLA FROM THE FAR LEFT »
In a protest event organized by the Unidos Podemos radical left coalition, their leader Pablo Iglesias told the crowd: “ Let’s go on not drinking Coca-Cola because Coca-Cola is attacking workers’ rights.” But standing out on his lunch tray the coalition's spokesperson in the Senate were two Coca-Colas.
THE RAINDROPS WERE ALL THAT MATTERED »
The only good thing that happened on 12 October was the rain!
SPAIN’S BEWILDERING POLITICAL PANORAMA »
Will there be a third election following the first two that failed to produce a government?
SPAIN IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF TREACHEROUS NEW ELECTIONS »
"If parliamentary elections were held again, the multiparty system would still be around, and so would political instability"
SPAIN TODAY: Socialist Leader Ousted; Podemos Politician Samples Big Apple; Chess & Classroom; Spanish Culture in Gibraltar »
Spanish politicians gear up for the campaign trail and that’s palpable even in events that seem to have nothing to do with the upcoming elections
