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ANTONIO M. ROMERO
Nearly a month after the PP's Juanma Moreno was sworn in as the new president of the Junta de Andalucía, his coalition government has now completed its recruitment process and the apparatus is ready to start moving. The Partido Popular and their
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Tony Bryant
The town of Montejaque, located in the Serranía de Ronda, is celebrating Andalucía Day with a traditional event known as the Juego del Cántaro. The 'game of the pitcher' is a participatory sport in which teams compete in a tournament that involves
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Jennie Rhodes
...into the town's cultural centre on Calle Granada to learn about the origins and rhythms of Andalucía's most popular performing art. "It was all very emotional, twice as many people came as normal," said Sijsling after the event. "They all said it was
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JOSÉ VICENTE ASTORGA
Malaga has once again topped the list of provinces in Andalucía for the creation of new companies. Based on 2017 data, there were 3.5 per cent more companies in the province compared to the regional average of 2.5 per cent. There were 73.5 ... companies for every thousand people in Malaga province, three points above the national average. Only 60.1 per cent of the registered companies made a profit however, the lowest in all Andalucía.
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MARÍA DOLORES TORTOSA
The regional cabinet of the new Partido Popular (PP) and Ciudadanos (Cs) coalition in the Junta de Andalucía was sworn in this week. The ceremony took place in the seat of the regional government at the Palacio San Telmo in Seville on Tuesday
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Ángel Escalera
These days more and more people are needing physiotherapy but there is a serious lack of trained professionals employed by the health service in Malaga, says the president of the College of Physiotherapists of Andalucía, Juan Manuel Nieblas, in this ... Andalucía at the moment? The College has 7,400 fee-paying members, of whom 1,450 are in Malaga province. How many more do you believe the health service in Malaga needs? In total we calculate that there ought to be at least 400, double the present ... are being asked to provide services which should be the responsibility of hospitals...if the work done in health centres isn't good enough, it overloads the system in the hospitals. Is that a problem in all the provinces of Andalucía? It happens
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Juanma Moreno was sworn in as the sixth president of the Junta de Andalucía regional government at a ceremony in Seville on Friday, attended by several senior PP figures including former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, current party leader Pablo ... of 59 votes was enough to give Moreno a majority in the chamber and usher in a new coalition in regional government made up of the PP and Cs. Protests held across Andalucía in defence of equal rights and gender laws Voting against Moreno, with ... their total of 50 votes, was the Socialist PSOE and left-wingers Adelante Andalucía, made up of Izquierda Unida and Podemos. The change to a PP president is the first time since Andalucía was granted devolved status from Madrid in 1982 that the PSOE
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Pilar Martínez
Andalucía will be at the Fitur tourism fair in Madrid next week with more space than ever for local business owners. The acting regional Tourism minister, Francisco Javier Fernández, said last week that his department had made an "extraordinary" ... effort to increase the presence of Andalusian business owners at the tourism fair. The space available in the Andalucía section to these professionals for meetings and presentations has gone from the 242 square metres in 2018 to 559 square metres. ... offering new technology, supported by the innovation centre Andalucía Lab.
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The vote by regional MPs for the new president of the Junta de Andalucía was accompanied by protests in towns and cities across the region. In the regional capital, Seville, 3,000 people gathered at the doors of the parliament building on Tuesday, ... they want to change gender and equality laws and put more emphasis back on the family. Although slight concessions have been made to Vox by the PP to secure their MPs votes in Andalucía, both the PP and Cs have roundly rejected Vox's radical policy.
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Pilar Martínez
...professionals. More than 400 professionals from the Costa del Sol were present on the opening day, attended by new Andalusian president Juanma Moreno in his first major outing since being sworn into the post. After opening the Andalucía stand, the largest on ... in the luxury sector, and to increase competitivity in the face of the resurgent tourist destinations in north Africa. Moreno told the assembled press and guests that 2018 was a record year for Andalucía which received 30.6 million visitors, who