Workday
Madrid – The Council of Ministers on Tuesday has approved the bill to reduce the working day to 37.5 hours per week, after which the text will send to the Congress of Deputies, where the necessary support to be carried out is not yet guaranteed to carry it forward, especially after the rejection announced by Junts.
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– Add and PSOE are confident to carry out the reduction of the working day in Parliament, despite the amendment to the totality that Juns has announced. (Text sent at 2:18 pm)
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April unemployment
Madrid – Employment in Spain reached 21.58 million affiliates in April, 231,000 more than in March and a new historical maximum, while unemployment was reduced by more than 67,000 people and marked the lowest figure since July 2008, in 2.51 million unemployed, according to the latest data of the Ministries of Labor and Social Security.
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– Three out of four unemployed perceive provision or subsidy, the highest rate since 2010. (Text sent at 11:31)
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BBVA Sabadell
Barcelona/Madrid – The Ministry of Economy has opened on Tuesday the public consultation on the OPA presented by the BBVA on the Sabadell Bank, which will be carried out through a form that can be filled until next May 16, an initiative that the owner of the department, Carlos Body, has defended as “good practice.”
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Electric blackout
Madrid – The Third government Vice President and Minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, said Tuesday that “demonizing renewables” involves moving away from competitiveness and opportunities they present for Spain, and has asked to “not mix” the blackout with the debate on nuclear closure.
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– The PP and the PSOE ask, separately, the creation of an investigation commission in Congress to analyze the causes of the blackout.
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– The government keeps the cyber attack as possible cause of the blackout (text sent 14:23 hours)
– The European Energy Commissioner does not see a relationship between the Iberian blackout and renewables. (Text sent at 4:30 p.m.)
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-Energy
Strasbourg (France) – The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday has gradually prohibit the new natural gas contracts with Russia and break the existing ones (which are around 13 % of the total imports of the EU) to end purchases to Moscow in 2027, although the normative proposal will not be formally submitted until within a month.
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Commercial War
Washington – The United States trade deficit increased by 14 % in March, to 140.5 billion dollars, a monthly record that responds to the advancement of imports from importers before tariffs were entered into force in early April.
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– The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has assured that the TMEC, the commercial treaty signed with Canada and Mexico, has not been respected and will renegotiate “very soon.” Trump has made these statements in the Oval Office during an encounter with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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– The US Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, says this week could announce trade agreements with some countries. (Text sent at 5:34 p.m.)
– The European Commissioner of Commerce, Maros Sefcovic, reiterates in the European Parliament that all tariff pact options are on the table and China insists that the door to negotiate with the US is open. (Texts sent at 12:43 and 9:42)
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Federal reserve
Washington – The Federal Open Market Committee of the American Federal Reserve (FOMC) starts on Tuesday a new meeting to decide if you fall off the interest rates between increasing pressures of the US president, Donald Trump, who reproaches the agency that acts late.
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