Business/Economy news & information for Spain

HOW HAVE self-employed traders coped with the Covid-19 pandemic and Spain's universal shutdown? Research by Granada University sought to find out, and discovered that the answer was far more optimistic than expected.

ONLINE retail giant Amazon has once again decided to up its investment in Spain, showing that the pandemic has not put large corporations off expanding in the country.

EVEN with record numbers of temporary unemployment and forecasts of economies shrinking in practically every country in the world, the majority of Spanish households are fairly unworried about the financial future –...

A MINIMUM income provided by the State to those on the lowest incomes has been agreed and will become payable from June 15, although backdated to June 1.

MERCADONA founder Juan Roig will donate his salary and dividends for this year to helping to prop up the economy so that workers, traders and the self-employed who were forced to take unpaid leave can get funding to...

SPAIN'S government has agreed to axe value-added tax on healthcare products manufactured nationally and used in hospitals, public institutions or non-profit associations, and to reduce it to the 4% minimum on online...

SELF-EMPLOYED persons who own a business premises will not have to pay the mortgage on it until the month after quarantine ends, where they have been forced to shut down altogether or their earnings have...

SPAIN'S government has apologised to the public for its 'delay' in shutting down all bar 'essential services', increasing the national confinement further – but says it was up again 'technical...

TRADERS, the self-employed and small businesses forced to shut down due to Spain's being in a State of Alarm over the Covid-19 transmission risk will not have to pay their monthly Social Security, or National...

AMAZON jobs offered in Spain have historically been in Barcelona or Madrid, but the latest recruitment drive – seeking 200 employees at first – is in the Murcia Region.

A PACKAGE of financial and other types of assistance to help high-street retailers, small family-run shops and village stores, especially in rural Spain, is being prepared by the national government in a bid to keep...

MINISTER for consumer affairs Alberto Garzón plans to restrict advertising by betting companies to an early-hours slot and to ban it from social media between 20.00 and midnight.