Alex Dunham
Editor at The Local (Spain)
Filmmaker and journalist in Spain, currently editor @TheLocalSpain & video producer @TheLocalEurope. Previously contributor @ TheGuardian, France 24, ARTE, Ozy
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4 days ago |
thelocal.es | Alex Dunham
Spain scores record employment figures Spain’s labour market surpassed 21.78 million workers for the first time in May after adding an average of 195,736 new social security contributors. Almost 40 percent of these new works are in the hospitality sector. May also brought positive unemployment figures: 2.5 million, the lowest rate for 17 years, since July 2008.
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5 days ago |
thelocal.es | Alex Dunham
Vox politician to be tried for tearing up photo of Civil War victims The president of the Balearic Islands' regional parliament, Vox politician Gabriel Le Senne, will be tried for for tearing up a photograph of Republican women executed in 1937 during a plenary session. The Balearic Islands Provincial Court has rejected Le Senne's appeal and confirmed he will be stand in court for a hate crime.
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5 days ago |
thelocal.es | Alex Dunham |Esme Fox
Several UK tabloids recently reported how on May 26th hundreds of British holidaymakers faced "third-world”, “inhumane” and "cattle-like" conditions at Tenerife South Airport. As four UK flights landed in quick succession, a bottleneck formed at passport control which meant passengers queued for more than two hours in stifling and overcrowded airport lounges.
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1 week ago |
thelocal.es | Alex Dunham
If foreign property buyers from wealthy Western nations currently feel targeted by the Spanish government, it’s not hard to understand why. In April, Pedro Sánchez’s administration scrapped the golden visa residency scheme which gave non-EU nationals Spanish residency in return for buying property worth €500,000.
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1 week ago |
thelocal.es | Alex Dunham |Esme Fox
A real estate or property bubble occurs when there is a steep rise in housing prices, fuelled by demand and speculation. Typically, it means that housing prices have risen more than current wages and that they’re selling for much more than they actually should be worth. What makes it a bubble is that at some point in the future it will burst, leading to a sudden drop in housing prices, usually when demand falls and supply increases. So, is there a property bubble currently happening in Spain?
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My take on the Rubiales kiss affair as someone who grew up in Spain and who's seen how attitudes towards chauvinism in Spanish society are changing. https://t.co/gJ1c1JjIcJ
Check out our 60-second guide to the #SpanishElections https://t.co/iCss4ngOjD
Spain is going to expel a UK citizen with a criminal record who never registered as a resident, despite claiming he'd lived in the country since 2011 and therefore had pre-Brexit EU rights. https://t.co/EcEevB1bXA
