Regularization drives foreign employment to a record 3.5 million

Regularization drives foreign employment to a record 3.5 million

Foreign employment has accelerated strongly in Spain coinciding with the launch of the extraordinary regularization process for migrants carried out by the Government of Pedro Sánchez. Social Security reached a new record of 3.51 million foreign affiliates on average in July, after adding 66,046 employed in a single month and 420,875 in the last year, according to data published this Friday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations.

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UEFA's challenge to FIFA: agrees to boycott the World Cup if Infantino continues with his plan

UEFA’s challenge to FIFA: agrees to boycott the World Cup if Infantino continues with his plan

“UEFA and its federations will not participate in competitions organized by FIFA. We unanimously and unequivocally reject the plan to transfer the rights of the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.” UEFA and its 55 associations made this strong decision this afternoon in a telematic meeting. A real challenge to try to stop the plans of FIFA president Gianni Infantino to privatize part of FIFA by creating a corporate subsidiary to commercialize its competitions. From the very beginning, UEFA has opposed the plan and describes it as “crossing a red line.”

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Youth rental bonus, aid for developers, and permanent safeguarding of public housing stock: this is how the 7,000 million from the Housing Plan are distributed

Youth rental bonus, aid for developers, and permanent safeguarding of public housing stock: this is how the 7,000 million from the Housing Plan are distributed

Today’s Council of Ministers has approved the State Housing Plan 2026-2030, which triples the investment allocated to what is the main problem for Spaniards. The 7 billion euros of planned expenditure seek to boost the public housing stock with different blocks of aid: some aimed at owners, others at tenants in the rental market, and others at housing developers. One of the keys to the project is that the State and the autonomous communities must collaborate in promoting the construction and adaptation of properties to start moving towards a solution to the housing problem. These are the keys to the plan.

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Letizia, in white, and Charlene, in blue: a queen and a princess stroll through the garden

Letizia, in white, and Charlene, in blue: a queen and a princess stroll through the garden

The last time they saw each other, both were dressed in white when they met at the Vatican a year ago, at the mass marking the beginning of the pontificate of Leo XIV. This Monday, Queen Letizia chose white again for her meeting with Princess Charlene, who opted for a sky blue so light that from a distance it also looked white. Both, accompanied by the King and Prince Albert of Monaco, walked through the Botanical Garden of Madrid to inaugurate a commemorative exhibition of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Spain and Monaco.

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