The pandemic has impacted all economic sectors. However, the real estate market has shown resilience to the health situation and is facing its recovery. In this way, real estate assets such as logistics, the hotel sector and food retail are in the focus of demand from investors . There are different specific reasons why this type of real estate arouses special interest among investors, as indicated by Laborde Marcet. “After times of economic crisis, large investors look for values that ensure profitability in the medium or long term and, without a doubt, with good advice and paying attention to market…
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Heineken Spain advances in its fight against water scarcity and climate change with the Jarama Project, an initiative developed together with the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation and the Community of Madrid that will allow the Jarama basin to be restored in a natural way around 500 million liters of water each year. Thanks to the Jarama, Doñana and Albufera projects, the four factories that the brewery has in Spain will achieve a neutral water balance this year, making beers from brands such as Cruzcampo, Heineken, El Águila or Amstel return all the water they they contain the river basins that supply…
Education can not only help to reduce health inequalities, fundamentally by making the social elevator work, but also – and notably – to improve social well-being. This is the conclusion and presentation that Rosa Urbanos, president of the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration and component of the quartet for the independent evaluation of Spain’s response to the pandemic caused by covid-19, and who subscribes this article we did in a debate at the Palau Macaya organized by the Ernest Lluch Foundation. Its content revolved around the title Policies to reduce health inequalities after Covid-19. In developed countries,…
The Congress of Deputies will approve this Thursday the royal decree law to mitigate the impact of the rise in gas on the electricity bill with the abstention of the PNV , according to the Basque formation. The rule that cuts electricity companies by more than 2,600 million euros will go ahead with the commitment of the Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera , to soften the cut if the electricity companies sign contracts with the industry at a pre-scaled fixed price, as announced exclusively by El Periódico de Catalunya. In addition, the vice president has…
A new aid called to become the next level of protection for families in poverty is about to be born: as EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA has learned, its name is Complemento de Ayuda a la Infancia, it will consist of a fixed monthly payment per child (the amount will be known in the next few hours), and its mission is to cover nobody’s ground that now extends between situations of severe poverty, to which the Minimum Living Income (IMV) is oriented, and aid for descendant received by all those who earn enough to file income tax returns. The latest Social…
Large industry has been warning for years that the high prices of electricity in Spain represent a blow to its profitability and that it is thus difficult to compete with companies from other European countries. A situation that has been aggravated by the spiral of increases in electricity in recent months. Large industrial groups with a presence in the Spanish market are mobilizing to promote a massive purchase of renewable electricity at a fixed price for years to circumvent increases in electricity and to lower their energy bill, which for some companies represents 50 or 60 % of your total…
The Government will continue with its plan and will materialize the registration tax increase in January 2022. This was confirmed last Thursday by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, in a press conference after the extraordinary Council of Ministers where she presented the draft Law of the General State Budgets (PGE) for the year 2022. “The extension, that had been incorporated into the Budget Law for the entry into force was until December 31, 2021. That will continue until that date, but we do not incorporate any other element. When the year ends, the Law that previously existed that…
Upside down in the long war between Aena and the Spanish engineering companies over the way they hire their services. The Central Administrative Court for Contractual Resources (TACRC) has upheld the appeal filed by Tecniberia against the contracting mechanism through electronic auction used by the airport manager. It is a pioneering resolution that contrasts with what this Court and the National High Court had ruled so far in the long battle that confronts the public firm and the engineering firms over this matter and that forces the company chaired by Maurici Lucena to roll back the contested contracts. The TACRC…
ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is planning its launch to the world of e-commerce. To do this, the Chinese technology company is developing a new international purchasing platform to compete with the ocean liners of Amazon and Alibaba (through AliExpress). E-commerce is the present, and if not let them tell Amazon or AliExpress. For this reason, the Chinese company ByteDance wants to boost its new business by taking advantage of the attachment that young people show for TikTok, a social network that has already surpassed Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat in terms of total downloads. At the moment, it is…
This Monday the Annual General Assembly of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) approved a resolution to achieve zero net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the next 30 years. From today until 2050, the net zero emissions commitment of the aviation sector states that a cumulative total of 21.2 billion tons of CO2 will have to be reduced. The final objective, taking into account that through these compensations it is only contemplated to cover 8% of the total, it would imply the planting of more than 897.5 million hectares in the next three decades, which would correspond to reforesting…