Business/Economy news & information for Catalonia

YOU NEED to cut some tiles, you have a baby, you break a leg. Hopefully not all at once, of course, but it does mean you'll need an angle-grinder or tile-cutter, a pram and cot and baby-carrier – and to employ...

WHO doesn't enjoy a mammoth shopping session?

SPAIN'S two largest metropolitan areas have been listed among the top 10 European cities to invest in property for yet another year – and both have risen in the rankings since the 2021 report.

THREE cities in Spain have made it into the latest list of the best for home-workers after the 80 most popular choices were revealed.

MORE motorways are set to become toll-free starting from September, now that their franchises have expired and the State has taken on funding and maintenance.

BARCELONA'S El Prat airport is about to get bigger: Expansion plans costing €1.7 billion are afoot, turning it into a major long-haul international terminal with a high-speed rail connection.

FIVE months later than scheduled and nearly two-and-a-half years after the previous edition, the Mobile World Congress is back in Barcelona – albeit adapted to the Covid situation and with fewer international visitors...

TWO more major motorways in Spain are about to become toll-free once their franchises end in August, meaning a potential annual saving for motorists of half a billion euros a year.

SOME regions in Spain have relaxed restrictions on movement as their Covid case numbers are starting to decline or at least level off.

HOTEL bookings have risen sharply for the last few weeks of the year – in Spain's major cities, at least.

FAST food company McDonald's has launched a burger made entirely with Spanish produce from local farmers in a bid to help them get through the economic turndown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

BARCELONA is set to launch its own currency next month – the REC, which residents can spend in 10 neighbourhoods at first and which may spread to more areas of the metropolitan zone.