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ARCHIVED - Murcian and Spanish weekly news round-up 4th October
British tourists spent 72 million euros a day in Spain during August, Corvera airport one step closer, Catalan president indicted
This week has been a busy one in the Murcia Region, the news that will interest most expats relating to the ongoing project to open the airport at Corvera.
One of the biggest impediments to moving forward with the re-adjudication of the Corvera airport contract has been the long-term battle with the former concessionary, Aeromur, and the threat that the disagreement between the regional government and former concessionary could leave the process firmly wedged in the seemingly bottomless depths of the Spanish legal system for some considerable time.( If you’re unsure as to what the history of the airport project actually is, then a full back catalogue of articles and brief explanation of the topic can be found by clicking Corvera airport archive).
The airport was actually structurally completed in 2010, but the concessionary failed to open the installations for a number of reasons, citing amongst them the economic climate which had made the original business plan invalid, and therefore, they said, made their business unviable. It should be pointed out that since they failed to open Corvera airport, neighbouring Alicante has boomed, breaking all records on an almost monthly basis.
There were obviously other factors, including the problems associated with having built an airport in the middle of a sensitive military zone, and also the intransigence of Aena that it would not close the San Javier airport unless properly compensated for the investments made into the existing structure which it shares with the military air academy.
Three years after the airport was completed the regional government finally lost patience with the excuses, and having deemed that all reasonable attempts had been made by themselves to resolve the situation amicably, rescinded the contract of the concessionary two years ago.
Aeromur immediately launched a court action to fight the decision, and has since remained in situ at the airport maintaining the installations while fighting the decision in the courts. On Friday afternoon however, the regional government announced that it had made an important step forwards as the courts found in its favour and ruled that the government had been fully within its legal rights to rescind the contract as the concessionary had clearly failed to open the airport as per the contract. Although the former concessionary can appeal, this will do little more than rack up further legal costs, and as the court has also ruled that the costs of the case must be borne by Aeromur, is another point which the former concessionary must study further before deciding whether to appeal again.
However, the regional government now views the situation as resolved and optimistically said that the airport will open in the first part of their new ( four year) term of office which started in May, and they can now move ahead with the processes required to open the airport.( Full report to be published Monday)
The airport currently being used in the Murcia Region is San Javier, shared with the air academy, which confirmed this week that it will be holding an open weekend and offering a free air display over the weekend of 17th and 18th October to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Eagle Patrol( the Patrulla Águila) the equivalent of the UK’s own Red Arrows which trains from the installations.
Murcia has a long military history and is littered with military remains, most of which have been abandoned. This week Cartagena council announced that it was joining a European scheme to put old military installations to use, helping to create employment and stimulate the local economy. The city is surrounded by an extensive complex of military batteries which defended it from attack, although it was relentlessly bombarded during the Civil War ( hence the number of shells which turn up on land and out at sea, still laden with explosives!)
This period in the history of the region is always in the news in some way and it popped up again in Totana this week, not in the form of an unexploded bomb, but in the guise of the Historic Memory Law passed by the previous national PSOE government. The Totana municipality announced this week that it would be joining Cartagena (and other Spanish cities including Barcelona) in compiling a list of all the streets and monuments which carried names or in someway “exalted” the period of dictatorship which followed the Civil War with a view to removing them or changing them. This course of action has been resisted by thousands of councils nationwide, due in part to the vast amount of work for everybody involved in changing a street name ( residency records, the records of all the people who live in these streets, medical, employment etc, the business stationery, signwriting, etc etc for all the businesses with an address in that street and so on, to say nothing of printed maps, tourism maps, websites carrying information and even Googlemaps). Technically, these changes must be made to comply with the law which was passed in 2007 by the PSOE socialist government which preceded the current PP government of Mariano Rajoy, although PP politicians always opposed the original law, so many have been a little slow off the mark in complying with these changes.
Totana has also been in the news this week with a scheme to take on unemployed locals to clean up the town who have been removing rubbish and weeds from their ramblas in case of rain. Cieza managed to secure a place in the news for doing the same thing, although in their case the images showed a JCB ignominiously nosediving into the River Segura after the operator somehow managed to “lose his footing.” The Mayor was very relaxed about the situation, commenting that “it could have happened to anyone”.
In Lorca meanwhile one water rambla was also in the spotlight, although in this case the focal point of opposition socialist party wrath, being currently piled high with illegally discarded tyres and rubbish. Get it cleaned and punish the perpetrators they say!
Other areas have also been worrying about storm waters, the Mar Menor amongst them. This week the round of meetings to discuss where more storm drains can be built continued, focusing on the areas around the Los Urrutias/Nietos end of the Mar Menor where flooding is a regular occurrence during seasonal storms. Last week San Pedro del Pinatar were awarded the extra money to build their second large tank, the final aim being to have 20 tanks preventing water from pouring off dry land into the Mar Menor and basements of local residents.
Meanwhile, the agricultural sector has been complaining about lack of rain, their concern being that cloud seeding is being employed to control the weather. Apparently planes have been seen buzzing around on days when they believe it should have rained far too often for this to be considered a coincidence and the farmer are sure that somebody is stealing our rain!
Cloud seeding is used to help reduce the impact of hail, but certainly wasn´t being used last weekend when hail pulverised millions of kilos of grapes in the far north of the region although the accompanying rain was welcomed in other areas, including Lorca, Cieza and Calasparra which will receive money from the central government for regeneration following a summer fire according to an announcement made this week.
The risk of forest fire is now considered low, for which reason the BBQ units have re-opened in the Sierra Espuña and can be used until the weather heats up again next year. Get out the sausages and head for this glorious vein of green forests if you can this autumn, it’s a lovely trip out from the coast.
Transparency
Transparency has been an important word this week, as the regional government confirms its commitment to running a clean shop in the early part of the week by installing its “board of transparency” in the centre of Murcia. Members of the public can post their questions and comments for the government as it works to stamp out corruption.
However, by the middle of the week a big row had blown up in Mazarrón over this very subject, the core of the problem being a pact entered into by the PP Mayoress, who has pacted with three of the eight parties which have representation on the council to help her form a more “stable” government. Mazarrón has been dogged by political arguments and during the last four years was run by what described by some as a “pot pourri coalition” and others a “mixed salad” coalition, which became a rotten mess by the end of the four years as both Mayors and other councillors, were indicted in a case relating to the adjudication of public works contracts and fell out with each other. However, both gained council representation in the last elections, and there are now eight parties occupying the 21 seats, the PP having the most seats (7) although lacking a majority to govern alone.
The Mayoress let it be known that a pact had been formed with three other parties to help her maintain “stability” in the council, given the obvious dissatisfaction of the UIDM former Mayor. However, amongst her new allies are three representing the Ciudadanos party, which holds the voting balance of power in the regional assembly, as the PP failed to gain a majority in the May elections, They, in turn, had pacted with regional president Pedro Sánchez that he would receive their support providing he agreed to ensure that there were no indicted politicians amongst the PP representation. However, on hearing of the pact, they informed their three Mazarrón councillors that they would be suspended from the party unless they pulled out of the pact, as three of the new bedfellows have been indicted by the courts. ( Former Mayor Paco García, who had formerly been a Mayor for the PSOE, but who was replaced as head of the local PSOE in Mazarrón by the regional PSOE as he was indicted in the contracts case. He in turn set up his own party and was re-elected as an independent, and is indicted along with another former councillor, also involved in the same case. In addition another historic PP councillor, who is also an independent, and is indicted on charges of urban fraud.)
The PP are currently not backing down, saying that the three indicted councillors are not PP, so the PP are not breaking their agreement with Ciudadanos. They also maintain that the three concerned are not part of the sworn-in administrative council, but are simply part of a voting pact.
However, as Friday closed, the whole situation was up in the air with both the PP and Ciudadanos refusing to back down. This is likely to run on this coming week, but does leave Mazarrón in a difficult position, as the Mayoress maintains that she needs the support of other parties to operate a stable local government.
Mazarrón has the largest concentration of expats in the region, and was this week included in the Top Ten Towns initiative presented by the British Ambassador in Alicante (which has the other 9 towns included in the scheme), a project aiming to improve the integration of expats living in Spain, as well as encouraging their councils to understand the linguistic barriers facing their expat residents and finding a means of overcoming them. It’s an interesting scheme, as while many expats will never learn enough Spanish to hold a meaningful conversation, as it is a beast of a language with a lot of irregular verbs, there is a huge amount of cross-interaction, most of which is unreported. This week for example, the GO maD charity in Mazarrón is appealing for expats willing to join a project to give schoolchildren in the municipality a language practice through play experience with “real live native English speakers”.
Other news included regional debt figures ( less said the better), and regional unemployment figures ( better than they used to be) as well as even better news for those who bought on the doomed Santa Ana del Monte urbanisation in Jumilla. One purchaser has won a court battle to reclaim his 50,000 euro deposit from the bank guarantee, which could open the door for other claimants, both foreign and Spanish who paid deposits on properties that were never built.
There are plenty of other news stories in the Murcia regional news section, along with whats on, sporting and outdoor activities, latest property news, restaurant listing, Menu del día guide, free classifieds and business directory, all at www.murciatoday.com, and all updated daily!
Spanish property news round-up
Yet again a mixed bag in terms of news this week on the Spanish property scene, with most of the signs indicating that a gradual upturn in the market is already being felt but one or two statistics annoyingly failing to fit correctly into place and complete what would otherwise be a rosy picture.
One of the surest indications that a healthy balance between supply and demand has been reached in any residential property market occurs when there is a sizeable amount of new building going on, and in Spain when the bubble burst the effects were most devastating in the country’s construction sector. In September 2006, for example, licences for 126,000 new homes were granted, but by the dark days of 2013 the monthly totals were consistently close to only around 2,000.
For this reason,a total of 5,198 in July 2015 represents something of a turnaround. It is the highest total for 43 months, and in the first seven months of 2015 the cumulative figure of 28,870 is now 27% higher than in 2014. It will not be true that the residential construction sector is back to good health until monthly figures of close to 20,000 are recorded, but nonetheless the latest data published by the Ministry of Development seem to add weight to the theory that things are gradually getting better.
Similarly, the fact that residential property transactions generated total turnover of over 24 billion euros during the first half of this year, 8% more than in the same period in 2014 is also a good sign. This, according to the Ministry of Development, is due to there having been 10% more transactions this time round rather than to any price increase, but even so it demonstrates that purchaser confidence is returning to the Spanish property market, especially among foreign buyers who have not suffered the full effects of the slump in the Spanish economy over the last few years.
The only regions where the amount of money changing hands on the residential property market was lower than in the first half of last year were Navarra, Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha, while the most significant increases in activity are reported to have been in La Rioja, the Balearics, Cantabria, Andalucía and the Comunidad Valenciana.
With all of this positive news, though, there has to be a fly in the ointment, and property valuation firm Tinsa duly provided one on Thursday. According to the firm the year-on-year price comparisons across Spain resolutely failed to cross into positive territory during the third quarter of 2015, edging 0.9% downwards compared to the same period in 2014. While inter-annual price rises are reported in four regions (Madrid, Catalunya and the Canary and Balearic islands) and ten of Spain’s 50 provinces, significant price decreases were also recorded in the regions of Navarra (6.4%), Extremadura (6%), the Basque Country (5.6%) and Murcia (5.1%).
On a change of tack, it shouldn’t be forgotten that property and housing news is not all about sales. Housing is an important issue in coastal areas where the majority of properties lie empty for between 8 and 10 months of the year, and the regional government of the Balearics is taking steps to try to remedy that situation.
In what seems at first sight to be an extremely logical move to discourage seasonal variations in the housing supply, owners who make their properties available for rent all year round will receive property tax credits, while those who fail to do so will be punished by similar mechanisms. This is unlikely to sit well with those who only consider it worthwhile to rent out their homes when income is at its highest during the summer, but that’s the way the wind is blowing in Spain at the moment and if the scheme proves a success it could well become far more widespread in future.
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Spanish news round-up
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The over-riding theme dominating the Spanish news this week was Cataluña and the uncertainty following the regional elections of last week.
Although the results were immediately hailed as a victory for the separatist vote, with Junts pel Sí winning 62 seats and the CUP another 10, giving them an overall parliamentary majority among the 135 seats available, the euphoria was short-lived as it rapidly became apparent that in percentage terms while nearly half of the voters had backed separatist parties, that MORE THAN HALF of them hadn´t, and the vote for the separatist movement had been split between two distinct groups of ideologies, the smaller of which, the CUP, immediately announced that while it fought from a separatist platform, that it had no intention of backing Artur Mas in his campaign to continue as regional president.
Then, just as the media had flexed their fingers ready to start typing and politicians cleared their throats ahead of a mass of TV, radio and media interviews speculating what would happen next and what were the likely outcomes of many rounds of negotiations, it was announced that Artur Mas was to be indicted by the courts on several charges including serious disobedience and misuse of power relating to the “informal consultation” held on the 9th November last year.
The timing of this announcement seemed too perfect to be mere coincidence, but national president Mariano Rajoy reiterated on Thursday that it had nothing to do with instructions from his government and was part of a process initiated in November last year when Mas held his ”informal consultation” about independence after the courts had banned him from holding a referendum.
As for Artur Mas, after learning that he will be required by the high Court of Catalunya to answer questions on 15th October he has declared that he has no intention of becoming either a martyr or a hero, and denies that he disobeyed the orders of the Constitutional Court last 9th November by holding the informal consultation. Read a full report about the likely course of events as Cataluña attempts to choose a regional president for the next 4 years.
Meanwhile the Spanish parliament approved measures giving the Constitutional Court powers to fine or suspend authorities that do not carry out its sentences, so unruly officials, civil servants and politicians ( or even regional presidents) can be fined or suspended if they fail to enforce the law. This, of course, gives the government the power to effectively discipline any political leaders undertaking actions which are contrary to the Spanish Constitution, actions for example such as ……holding an “informal consultancy” about breaking away from Spain which is illegal under the Spanish Constitution.
Prime Minister Rajoy said he was prepared to hold talks with the next Catalan government about a wide range of issues, but always “within the law”, words echoed by his German counterpart who said that the German government is convinced that "its important with everything thats happening at the moment, to maintain the rule of law, both with regard to EU treaties and with regard to national law, i.e. the Spanish constitution".
National election date set
Prime Minister Rajoy also confirmed this week that the General election establishing who will run the national government for the next four years will take place on the 20th December, just before the Christmas break. This ensures elections are out of the way before the festive season and gives the elected government time to settle in before the new parliamentary year begins.
Economic news this week
The economy will be a key battleground during the election run-up:
Unemployment figures came out on Friday, showing a slight rise at the end of September. Unemployment is still over the 4 million mark in Spain, with 22.4% of the adult population out of work and youth unemployment the highest in Europe at nearly 50%. Although the economy is expected to start showing stronger growth within the next few months, unemployment continues to be a headache for the Spanish government, so could Spain start to solve the problem by taking a leaf out of the book of other nations which have a labour shortage such as Germany?
Provisional Retail Price Index figures published this week suggest that inflation in Spain has fallen by 0.3% during the month of September and is now 0.9% lower than a year ago, returning the economy to a state of negative inflation after a brief return to positive figures in June and July. Fuel and electricity both “fuelled” the downward turn.
The Banco de España confirmed this week that GDP grew by 0.8% during the third quarter and is expected to remain on course for an overall growth of 3.1% for this year with increased domestic consumption contributing to the growth, positive news, although the rate of growth is expected to slow down next year.
Mains gas went down in price this week, so 1.9 million households can look forward to a 1.1% reduction in their bills from the 1st October onwards and 5 million homes will be able to take advantage of the flexible electricity consumption meters which are gradually being installed across Spain from this week onwards. The idea of these meters is to help consumers use energy heavy appliances at the cheapest times of day ( and night), so if you hear a bumping and a thumping coming from the flat above at 3am in the morning then the neighbours are either using the spin dryer or doing the ironing and household chores at the cheapest rate.
Of course, there are always those who like to save money on a grand scale, and this week Barca football star Javier Mascherano has been called to answer charges of defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of more than 1.5 million euros.
Also concerned about protecting their income levels are Spanish taxi drivers. This week over 2,000 taxis blockaded the centre of Málaga in protest at the gradual deregulation of the sector. The taxi sector has managed to keep Uber at bay for now, but faces an uphill battle as the internet opens up opportunities for car sharing and although in some places the authorities are being forced to implement measures to eliminate “unfair competition” such as in Alicante airport where taxi drivers from outside of the area are limited to a maximum number of runs permitted per month and barriers have been installed to control pick-up and drop-off passenger zones, consumers are starting to demand more flexibility. However, for now, the taxi drivers still have enough clout to paralyse the city centre of Málaga as they did this week.
Air traffic controllers, however, cancelled their strike action planned for this weekend after a long campaign to resolve issues dating back to the large-scale 2010 controller stoppage. A big relief for the tourist sector.
Tourism remains motor of the economy
As anticipated, tourist expenditure figures came in for August this week, showing that spending by foreign tourists in Spain continues to hit record levels. During August visitors from abroad parted with 9,462 million euros (9.4 billion) while visiting Spain, a new monthly record, and almost a quarter of it (23.7%) is due to visitors from the UK, who spent 2,246 million euros in Spain during the month.
Tourism has many faces, so if you’re a motor racing fan, then the Barcelona F1 Grand Prix will be on May 15th next year, part of a record series of 21 F1 races confirmed for next season this week.
Or maybe you prefer fish net stockings, high heeled boots and extravagant wigs, topped with a fizz of feathers and a dash of something sparkly? If Carnival is your thing, then this is how the new “God” of the Carnival in Cádiz is likely to be dressed next spring; new Mayor José María González ( Kichi to his friends) has decided to add a Díos to his Diosa and thus ensure that there are no accusations of sex discrimination in Andalucía when the big carnival, a huge draw for tourists, kicks off.
Looking after tourists is always a lot of work and this week the results of the boosted SATE ( attention to foreign tourists) police office campaign for this summer were presented, showing that nearly half of the crime reports made by foreign tourists were in the Balearic Islands, particularly areas where young people enjoy a boozy holiday in the bars and discos. However, in spite of the best efforts to save us from ourselves, two British tourists have died in alleged drug-related incidents within the last ten days in Ibiza.
Two more British tourists also died in Girona after being swept out to sea in the strong waves and currents which followed weekend storms along the Mediterranean coastline. Cataluña was the subject of a meteorological alert for heavy waves, and the red warning flags were flying in Girona on Thursday evening when a group of 5 British women went out for the evening. At 4.15am they were warned by a beach bar owner not to enter the sea when they were seen undressing for a nocturnal dip, but ignored the warning, two drowning as they were swept out to sea.
Police in Andalucía also called off the search for a young man, believed to be British, who was apparently swept away in Granada following heavy rains: the police have been unable to establish an identity and confirm the facts behind reports that a person living rough was caught by floodwaters tumbling down the river, having chosen to sleep under a bridge.
However, the identity of one Irish gunshot victim shot dead in Málaga was clarified this week and the Irish press have been having a field day after the execution of Gary Hutch was reported. Hutch died after eight shots were fired by a balaclava-wearing gunman following a chase around a swimming pool, and in his colourful past took part in the largest robbery ever reported in Ireland, a 7.5-million-euro heist from the Bank of Ireland. He is also known to have been involved in murders and international drug trafficking, and had escaped two previous attempts on his life since moving to the Costa del Sol.
It was also announced this week that Tunisia has lifted the state of emergency imposed after 38 foreigners were massacred in an attack on the beach. Tunisia has lost millions of euros in tax revenue as tourists chose alternative destinations, Spain amongst those who have benefited.
Bullfighters do battle
Bullfighting managed to find a place in the headlines yet again this week, but this time it’s the bullfighters fighting back against the concerted assault on the tradition of bullfighting in Spain by anti-animal cruelty protestors. A striking series of posters were produced featuring leading bullfighters with their torsos bared in an attempt to attract support for the “artistic and cultural” elements of bullfighting, one example being the “torero” Morante de la Puebla posing as Salvador Dalí, with the name of the artist emblazoned on his chest.
"I am pure art" the posters proclaim, using the hashtag #SoyArtePuro.
However, those who view bullfighting less as art and more along the lines of animal cruelty continue their campaign and this week it emerged that the Balearic Islands is on the verge of joining Cataluña in a total ban on bullfighting.
However, events involving bulls also encompass the encierros, or bull running tradition and this week the thirteenth victim of the summer was gored to death while taking part in an encierro in Madrid.
Immigration
Immigration has remained in the news this week: Three Syrians were found hiding in the back of a refrigerated lorry in the Basque Country having travelled from Poland in the back of the truck.
Late on Sunday a number of boats were intercepted off the Andalucian and Murcian coastlines as more than 200 ( sub-saharan) immigrants attempted to enter Spain via sea and 87 immigrants managed to scale the razor wire topped border fence in Ceuta and enter Spain. 11 of their number were minors.
There was also one incident widely reported in the Spanish media, involving a Moroccan national who smashed the window of a casing surrounding the Virgen del Carmen in a town within the Málaga province with a rock shouting “Allah is great.”
This, of course, sparked off similar comments to some of those being aired in Germany, Hungary, Greece, Austria and other nations affected by the huge migrant problem being caused by war in Syria. Although Spain is noting very little direct migration, it’s an interesting topic to follow, as Europe attempts to cope with this relentless human avalanche.
Click onto any of the migrant stories in the International news section and you’ll find a linked thread on the bottom which covers the topic in some detail. There is also an international migration subject heading on the right hand side of the page with full coverage. Articles linked to the points above include: Merkel’s popularity slumps as Germans worry about migrant volumes, UN warns current refugee flow to Euroe is just “tip of the iceberg”, and Italy clears migrants from tent settlement on French border.
There are many International news stories in the subject heading International news and UK stories are also updated daily, along with a busy sports section.
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