Local
Héctor Barbotta
Marbella town hall on Monday approved a budget amendment that will allow for works worth ten million euros to be undertaken as part of the council's Economic Reactivation Plan designed to tackle the crisis caused by the pandemic. This initiative
National
SUR
...low or no income, has long been a policy of coalition partners Unidas Podemos and the government wants it to come into force in June. Estimates are that it will cost the State three billion euros a year, and initially reach100,000 households. There ... adult could be 462 euros a month and 1,015 euros for a family of two adults and two children. The measure is expected to be approved at a Cabinet meeting this week, when full requirements and details of how to apply from June will be released.
Local
JOSÉ LUIS PIEDRA
Moreno said that his government was committing to putting forward over one billion euros, "to give oxygen" to business people, spread between taxation relief, guaranteed loans and the 300-euro payments to autónomos (self-employed). This week the Junta ... de Andalucía signed an agreement with Garántia, a mutual loan guarantee society, to facilitate smaller loans between 9,000 and 15,000 euros to the self-employed, which will be fully guaranteed by the regional government, easy to apply for and interest-free in ... the first year. In addition, the funding through Garántia for loans for small and medium-sized firms of up to 100,000 euros has been increased. Garántia says that, up to now, loans worth over 100 million euros have been applied for in the region.
Local
ANTONIO M. ROMERO
The Diputación provincial authority is to spend 233 million euros before the end of this year on its own-style Marshall Plan for economic recovery and employment in province. The four parts of the plan Cash injections for local councils - ... 70 million euros. Concept: Town halls will receive money to carry out works; of the 18.8 million euros as yet unpaid under the Concertation Plan, 17 million will be given to places considered in most urgent need. Municipalities with over 5,000 ... inhabitants will be exempt from paying their annual fees to the provincial consortiums, which will provide a saving of six million euros. Infrastructure works and hotel subsidies -65 million euros. Concept: To reactivate the construction sector,
Gibraltar
Debbie Bartlett
...in April, during commercial discussions relating to payments for the construction works, a third party was offered 20,000 euros by one of the officials to approve disputed works on a particular project which has a value of around two million pounds.
National
SUR
...the temporary unemployment benefits and the missed social security quota payments, on Tuesday the government approved fines it will apply specifically for companies that present false ERTE applications. Amounts will be between 6,200 and 187,000 euros ... euros. In addition, by Wednesday, almost 40,000 regional self-employed in Andalucía in certain types of work had applied online for up to 300 euros to cover their April social security quota in cases where national benefits cannot been applied for.
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LifeStyle
Tony Bryant
...alongside town halls in its area to provide food and supplies to those most in need. As part of its current fundraising drive, the charity has donated a total of 500 euros worth of non-perishable goods to the Fuengirola Food Bank and Adintre, a
Local
Eugenio Cabezas
...as such has included 150,000 euros in its 2020 budget. In total it has committed 200,000 euros to the new library.
Local
Ivan Gelibter
The town hall in Mijas is to throw a lifeline to potentially thousands of local self-employed and small firms, with payouts of between 3,000 to 6,000 euros for those worst hit by coronavirus. Mayor Josele González said this week that the council ... will not wait any longer for the government to abolish spending caps on councils' surpluses, despite doubts about whether his initiative is legal. He plans to modify his budget and use all accumuated surplus funds, some 140 million euros, over the ... remainder of this year and into 2021, to introduce measures which no other town hall - in Malaga province, at least - has proposed so far. The measures will start to come into effect within a few days. A total of 12 million euros is being allocated to help