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...the beaches this summer along the 1,000 kilometres of coastline that Andalucía enjoys". The Junta president also stressed that this plan aims to "defend the good image and reputation of the tourism sector, as well as supporting these unemployed
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government has proposed to Madrid opening up international tourism by scrapping the 14-day quarantine announced last week and implementing temperature controls at airports and giving coronavirus tests to foreign
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía regional government, Juanma Moreno, has promised to provide small firms and the self-employed with access to loans and liquidity "to save as much as possible of the productive capability" of the region. ... 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
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The good news for most residents of Malaga province this week was that the Junta de Andalucía regional government was asking Madrid to allow most of the area to move into the looser restrictions of Phase One. This included the Costa del Sol. ... Most of Spain gets ready to move to Phase One of lockdown easing However, in its feedback to central government, the Junta believed the public health district that covers the city of Malaga and neighbouring Rincón de la Victoria needed to keep some ... province ahead of Monday's change of phase. Ministers have said they prefer to work with changes across whole provinces rather than public health districts, which members of the public don't normally recognise as easily. The Junta is recommending all
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Following widespread calls from agricultural organisations and producers, the regional government announced on Wednesday that it will lift water restrictions in the Axarquía, which had been in place since November, for the remainder of the hydrologic
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...metres between umbrellas. These distances would need to be greater in areas that are very windy. Junta set to employ 3,000 people to help with beach controls As for those who come in groups, the Ministry of Health's recommendation is that no
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...minister, Yolanda Díaz, has said that inspectors will check every application for fraud. Fines could be multiplied by each employee and companies will have to give back all payments made. Take-up of Junta support Meanwhile, the Junta de Andalucía has
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Given the expected increase in coronavirus hospital cases in the coming days, the Junta de Andalucía regional government is converting the Carranque sports complex in Malaga city into a large hospital for patients of Covid-19, with a capacity of ... more than 400 beds. These facilities have been chosen because of their proximity to the Hospital Regional (formerly Carlos Haya), which will facilitate the transfer of health professionals. The Junta has ruled out converting the city's Palacio
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The recent publication of a feature about walking football in SUR has spurred the Blue Sky Marbella Marbella League into producing an application to the Junta de Andalucía to have walking football officially recognised as a sport. Information
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government on Friday confirmed four cases of coronavirus Malaga province: three in Marbella and one in Fuengirola. Two men who tested positive in Marbella, aged 42 and 53 respectively, have links to the first ... (Jaén) who attended someone with coronavirus in a hospital in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid). These seven new cases bring the number of diagnosed cases in Andalucía to eight. The Junta has confirmed that all cases so far have been imported from
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Environmental group Ecologistas en Acción have presented an official complaint to the regional government the Junta de Andalucía over irregularities to a new beach bar being built in El Morche. The group claims that the construction exceeds the ... maximum dimensions for a building of its nature. Torrox town hall has said the building has been authorised by the Junta and is being supervised.
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...instructions to stay at home to prevent further spread of the virus. Schools and all other educational centres will be closed at least for the next two weeks, as Moreno announced on Thursday. The Junta de Andalucía has said that on Sunday it would study the
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The Junta de Andalucía has given authorisation for a team of archers to shoot wild boar that are causing problems in urban areas. The team, known as the SCAES (Servicio de Controladores con Arco de Especies Silvestres) belongs to the Andalusian
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The Junta de Andalucía last week gave the go ahead to allow the installation of 827 metres of high tension underground electricity cables to connect Nerja's waste water station to the network. This is the latest development in the project, which
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The Junta de Andalucía logo, a familiar sight to residents on everything from hospital appointment letters and school signs, to the side of some buses and benefits forms, is getting a makeover. The odl logo.SUR The last logo change was in
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...same time because without water for agriculture this area can only expect ruin,” he said. The Junta de Andalucía wrote a letter to the fruit growers on Wednesday saying that from now until April each farmer can use 2,200 cubic hectometres from La
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...complicated, control overcrowding on the most popular beaches, which are normally those in the towns. The Junta de Andalucía recommends setting a maximum number of users, based on the recommendation of at least a two-metre distance, but is leaving this to town ... accesses to make it easier to control numbers. Communal swimming pools unlikely to open this summer with controls "impossible" To lend the councils a hand, and depending on what the Junta ends up contributing after its president, Juanma Moreno, said ... council is still drawing up the contingency plan demanded by the Junta, and this will include closing some accesses to beaches in order to focus on those which have been prepared. This will mean extra monitoring by lifeguards and Civil Protection,
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The president of the Junta, Juanma Moreno, said in the regional parliament in Seville on Wednesday that he was worried that Malaga and Granada provinces wouldn't be allowed by central government to go into Phase Two on Monday (25 May). His
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The Junta de Andalucía regional government has put in place a special observation plan to calm fears among the general public after the arrival of the Wuhan Zall football team on Wednesday. The Chinese team, from the city where the deadly
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There was outrage in the Junta de Andalucía this week when it found out that Madrid was going to intervene in the devolved regional government's spending for the coming year, ordering cuts or adjustments to the recently approved 2020 regional ... Madrid says that the national government has to approve regional spending plans and the Junta de Andalucía cannot raise debt on the markets in 2020. The acting national government's letter said that Andalucía could resort to a centralised support fund for ... in parliament In the Andalusian parliament's last session before Christmas on Thursday, Juanma Moreno clashed heavily with opposition leader, the PSOE's Susana Díaz, who was also the Junta president in 2018. Díaz accused Moreno of lying over
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Plans to construct a pier off Torre del Mar beach have reemerged, two years after the project was first announced. However, the town hall has had to make a number of modifications to the original design, following indications from the Junta ... consultancy firm working on the design. The Junta de Andalucía is currently evaluating the viability of the current design.
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...to Brexit with the EU, there will be a transition period at least until the end of 2020, during which time virtually everything would stay the same and no urgent measures would be required. Moreno explained that his Junta de Andalucía regional
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...see the work the Junta de Andalucía is carrying out at Malaga's El Limonero reservoir last Friday. The minister's comments come at a time when Malaga's water reserves total 346.4 cubic hectometres, 133 down on this time last year (479 hm3). Crespo ... minister also announced that a report by the Junta de Andalucía would be finalised by early February for the central government to approve a bypass from the Iznájar reservoir in Cordoba to Antequera. The project has been in the pipeline for a number of ... years but has not started yet due to the amount of red tape preventing it from getting under way. Crespo added that the Junta is carrying out repair work to 179 rivers and waterways in Andalucía, of which 41 are in Malaga province.
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...recommendation and support from families and friends. World No-Alcohol Day World No-Alcohol Day takes place on 2 October each year, and the slogan for the most recent one was 'Today I'm not drinking, I'm proving my freedom'. The Junta de Andalucía organises ... and Internet. The Junta also has another community programme, focused on preventing drug dependency. This is called 'Ciudades ante las Drogas' (Towns against Drugs), and is carried out in conjunction with local councils. The main objective is to
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, made an official visit to Morocco this week, where he met with several officials to discuss trade, the economy, immigration, cooperation and other issues affecting both countries. During the
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The Junta de Andalucía has put out to tender a contract worth 42,229 euros to supply and install handrails and other safety and accessibility features along the coastal path of Caleta de Vélez harbour. The contract forms part of the ongoing project
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Estepona council agreed on Thursday to sign over the recently completed shell of the new local hospital to the Junta de Andalucía's health service, to be fitted out and made ready for use. The council has paid for the construction work at over 15 ... million euros and the Junta regional government is now required to keep its side of the deal and pay for the running and upkeep of the new building. The Junta has said it hopes to have it running "sometime in 2020".
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The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, said this week that the regional government is completely committed to preserving the Doñana National Park and will be investing 17.5 million euros in it this year. He also proposed that a ... Junta will work to raise awareness of the values of the National Park, and wants to forge close links with towns and villages in the area. He promised that "nothing that damages Doñana is going to be done", referring to the proposed motorway between
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The budget plan for next year envisages the reopening of the CIO Mijas elite hospitality school next year. A sum of nearly half a million euros will be spent on refurbishing classrooms and communal areas so the school can start teaching courses su
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The municipal boundary war between Benalmádena and Fuengirola is starting to sort itself out after years of argument between the two neighbouring local authorities. The Junta de Andalucía regional government has told both town halls that the border ... municipal tax. Navas said that if "an agreement" couldn't be reached with Fuengirola on compensation, then he would take the matter to court. Fuengirola can still appeal the Junta's decision to the regional supreme court and has already said that it is in ... no mood to give away a single metre. Mayor Ana Mula pointed out that Benalmádena hasn't looked after the area in dispute for decades and that the Junta hasn't taken into account the reality of the current situation. The problem started when
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1.14 billion euros. The Junta de Andalucía said this week that the new tariffs could cost the region 315 million euros, although it admitted that it was hard to be precise. From 18 October, US Customs will apply extra import tax of up to 25 per cent
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Barring any last-minute surprises, the old Correos headquarters on Avenida Andalucía in Malaga will pass into the hands of Nitsba Spain, a company headed by Israeli oil magnate Haim Tsuff, in the coming fortnight. Tsuff's business activities can be
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...they won't face any difficulties," says the Junta's regional minister of Agriculture, Farming, Fishing and Sustainable Development, Carmen Crespo. However, she says there is no need for alarm. "We are prepared for any emergency situations and we can
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...accused worked at the Junta de Andalucía from 2001 to 2009, when it was run by the PSOE Socialist party, and almost 680 million euros of mismanaged public money was given out to ailing companies in out-of-control unemployment subsidies. These sometimes ... abbreviation for a round of compulsory redundancies when a firm has financial difficulties, centres principally on the uncontrolled public subsidies to companies to dismiss staff, laced with corruption. The trial explained that Junta officials paid out grants ... Álvarez.EFE Severest sentences The severest prison terms went to those heading departments managing the money. Former director general of Work and Social Security at the Junta, Francisco Javier Guerrero, received seven years, 11 months while Antonio
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The Junta de Andalucía has said that it is considering expropriating some of the land affected in the search for Julen in January. Over 20 plots of land were affected during the search, meaning that other landowners should be compensated. The Junta ... for its original purposes. Large areas are considered unsafe due to the holes that were dug and machinery used during the rescue efforts. The Junta needs to reach a financial settlement with the affected landowners, but through conversations between
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The Junta de Andalucía has released a sum of 75 million euros to help clean up and repair damage caused by the 'Dana' storm last weekend. The funds will be shared by the provinces of Almeria, Granada and Malaga and will go towards repairing roads ... damage. The Fuengirola road was closed after La Tejá stream broke its banks. Alhaurín was visited on Sunday by the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, who announced that on Tuesday emergency funds would be released to help the 133
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...to recover. The outrage was echoed by representatives of the tourism industry, as well as mayors of numerous coastal resorts. The Junta de Andalucía, in a report submitted last week to the government, had expressed its concerns about Malaga and ... which did go through to Phase One, than in Malaga, and complained that other provinces had been subdivided into their respective health districts. Junta wants beaches and pools to open before the end of May Beaches on the Andalusian coastline could ... regional and local authorities are working on health and safety measures to allow beaches to open as soon as permitted. The Junta de Andalucía announced a scheme this week that involves a spend of 10.5 million euros on helping local councils to get their
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At the next regional cabinet meeting, president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, will approve a series of measures designed to alleviate the effect of any hard Brexit. Moreno stated that Andalucía is especially vulnerable to any negative
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The Junta de Andalucía on Tuesday stepped up its offensive on the previous PSOE-led administration, accusing the Socialists not only of manipulating the figures of those who had been given flu vaccinations but also holding them responsible for the
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...year 2022, a decade after the initial plans were drawn up, is the target date for the Guadalhorce to stop being used as a dump for raw sewage from the area. Discussions are under way between the Junta de Andalucía's ministry of Sustainable Development ... on the provincial capital to complete the treatment cycle. Management With regard to managing the facilities in the future, the Junta de Andalucía has also made it clear that before the project goes ahead, the town halls should make a written ... speed the process up and not have any more delays, the Junta has told the councils that it will provide them with a draft agreement in the next few weeks. Once these questions have been resolved and the design for the plant has been definitively