The Government anticipates that the war in Iran will have a negative impact of up to 7 billion on the Spanish economy

The Government anticipates that the war in Iran will have a negative impact of up to 7 billion on the Spanish economy

The Ministry of Economy estimates that the impact of the war in Iran will reduce the growth of the Spanish economy by between one and four tenths this year and could push inflation to 3.1%. In global terms, four tenths of GDP would represent up to 7,000 million in negative impact. The Government currently maintains the estimate that the economy will grow by 2.2% this year, but the First Vice-President, Carlos Cuerpo, has announced that this forecast will be revised in the coming weeks.

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Brussels gives the green light to a millionaire blackout prevention mechanism for Spain

Brussels gives the green light to a millionaire blackout prevention mechanism for Spain

The European Commission gave the green light this Friday for Spain to implement a multi-million euro anti-blackout mechanism to strengthen the electricity supply and prevent episodes like the one in April last year, when much of the Iberian Peninsula was left in the dark. The figures are enormous: the system approved under the EU state aid rules will have a cost of 900 million annually, that is, 9 billion for the 10 years it is expected to last.

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García Ortiz reveals that he found out through a judicial leak that they were already going to charge him

García Ortiz reveals that he found out through a judicial leak that they were already going to charge him

In the judicial universe, where information leaks are commonplace, the fact that the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz was convicted for revealing secrets in the case of the confessed tax fraud by Ayuso’s boyfriend, Alberto González Amador, was for the convicted “a very hard surprise,” among other things because during the judicial process there were also leaks, as he evidenced yesterday in his first interview after the sentence on Lo de Évole, from La Sexta.

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Prison sentences for the perpetrators of the Spanish teenagers' volunteering scam in Ghana in 2018

Prison sentences for the perpetrators of the Spanish teenagers’ volunteering scam in Ghana in 2018

The Provincial Court of Barcelona has sentenced Yago Zarroca to three years in prison and Màrius Montmany and Oriol Hernández to two years each as responsible for the organization Yes We Help for a crime of aggravated fraud. Although the sentence is not final, the Chamber considers it proven that the alleged NGO of “international volunteering” was actually seeking to recruit and deceive hundreds of teenagers under the promise of participating in humanitarian projects in Ghana and Sri Lanka.

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