Day: December 30, 2011

Spain names site for delayed nuclear waste dump

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NkSpain’s incoming centre-right government named a site on Friday for a nuclear waste dump, a decision that had been long delayed by its Socialist predecessors amid protests by residents and regional authorities. The industry ministry chose Villar de Canas -135 km (84 miles) southeast of Madrid – for the Temporary Centralised Store (ATC in Spanish) which it said will bring 300 jobs to the town of 400 people. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL5E7KN2OW20111230?irpc=932 Posted from WordPress for Android – Continue reading Spain names site for delayed nuclear waste dump→

Things worse than we thought – government rises taxes, admits public deficit is 8% and makes public workers work harder

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The new government of Spain has announced today, in its first round of emergency budget revisions after the recent general elections, that the real level of Spain’s public deficit is at 8% of GDP, not the 6% said by the outgoing socialists, and almost double the EU’s maximum limit. In a first emergency budget modification announced today, Rajoy’s government has rised personal income tax, ranging from an increase of just 0’75% for the lowest level Continue reading Things worse than we thought – government rises taxes, admits public deficit is 8% and makes public workers work harder→