Julia Pastor | Between April and June of this year, the government will carry out an extraordinary regularization of 500,000 immigrants. This is the seventh such process in Spain’s democratic history, following initiatives launched by both PSOE and PP governments. In the first one, conducted in 1986 under Felipe González, residency papers were granted to 38,294 people out of 43,815 applications. The most recent occurred in 2005 under José Luis…
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Singular Bank | According to preliminary readings, the Eurozone manufacturing PMI rebounded to 50.8 points in February (compared to 49.5 points in January), exceeding analysts’ consensus estimates (50.8 points) and reaching its highest level since June 2022. At the same time, the services PMI rose slightly by 0.2 points to 51.8 points. Given this development, the composite PMI rose to 51.9 points (compared to 51.3 points in January), explained by…
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Pyden&Rygel | Data released last week shows that the US nominal goods trade deficit widened to $1.2 trillion in 2025, the highest level since 1960. This occurred despite the most significant tariff tightening in decades, which had the explicit goal of narrowing that very gap. How can this contradiction be explained? The answer lies in the reorganization of supply chains. Importers took advantage of differences in tariff rates between countries,…
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Says Antonio Bonet, president of the Club of Spanish Exporters and Investors. He points out that “Europe has a single tariff applied by all member states, but the U.S. applies a tariff to each country, meaning it can decide that the tariff applied to Spanish black olives is higher than that for Italian olives, as it did at one point. So there is a part of the negotiation between Europe…
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In an interview with Consejeros magazine, Sacyr’s coordinating advisor, Elena Jiménez de Andrade, explains that now “We have great capacity to win projects, a capacity that until now contrasted with a series of financial limitations and balance sheet size. However, in this strategic cycle, we are going to eliminate those barriers. That is why we have set an ambitious goal for 2033: to triple the value of our assets. We…
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