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El Valle Asociacion: Happy New Year!
El Valle Asociacion is ringing in 2023 with the following January events. Celebrate with us!
– January 2 – Club Night: Dinner at Asador in Puente Don Manuel
– January 12 – January Walk: We will start off at 11AM and will go on a circular route through Velez-Malaga, to finish at the outdoor market and with lunch (menú del día, 10 euros) at El Canillero. Meet at the first roundabout in Centro Ciudad Velez at 11AM.
Call Carol at 635291532 or come to Meson Sara in Puente Don Manuel between noon and 1PM for more details.
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Chiringuito Mambo- Torrox Costa: Live music Fri, 30Dec. 3pm
Latin Hits “Cuando calienta el Sol” with Johny Chiu
Come to the sun and the heat at the Chiringuito Mambo, Johny Chiu with his Latin Hits of all times will warm up the evening this last Friday night of 2022. There will be surprises as always and good sound for you! FB & Video Link
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New Years Eve Concert: Mentally Ska’d
Want to dance the New Year in? Come and join us for a fantastical night of ska & reggae at Table Mountain, Los Ventorros, Comares. tel 650193777
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For Sale: Two single beds one converts into a double including headboards matching duvet covers and pillows also a new duvet still unwrapped. €45 the lot
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What Happened To The Billions In EU Funds For Covid Relief?:
{DigameXtra Editorial}
– What happened to all that money? The national and regional gov’ts had such grand plans, to rebuild the social/business fabric of society! Oh, so many promises were made, project budgets proposed, plans developed, and of course the political brownie points made in speeches expounding on the coming growth we would see.
– Andalucia even tried to factor €3billion of it into their 2023 operations budget for a while, and announcements of budget surpluses were made with great fanfare. Soon after, the EU watchdogs reserved the right to monitor disbursements sourced from EU funds, and that great sum could no longer be spent at the discretion of regional officials to pad their budget. I saw no news updates about the Andalucia budgets losing that huge income, or the downward adjustments in budget that would be required as a result. How odd.
– Well, look around. Do you see improvements we were promised by the grinning Sanchez in numerous speeches, who was so proud of his successful lobbying for recovery funds in Brussels? Have all the vacant commercial properties filled up with thriving new enterprises? Have public services improved? Has your quality of life recovered?
– The answer is no, or no more than you would expect without those EU recovery funds.
– As soon as the Ukraine invasion occurred, and the energy crisis arrived, the gov’t and their lackeys in the press took advantage of the new crises to bury the EU Relief Funds story. Some billions of EU funds did arrive around that time, and seem to have fallen to the same black hole as the 2008 EU Housing/Banking Crisis Recovery Funds disappeared into.
– Those of us who who have been here for 12+yrs may remember the uncompleted highway projects with unfinished ramps to nowhere, financed by the 2008 recovery funds. A few years after those funds were spent, an embezzlement scandal erupted, involving construction services taking loads of money, faking supply purchase orders and then going bankrupt before completing projects, with little of the money ever recovered. Yup, same black hole.
– As some of these new EU Recovery Funds are not grants, but are in fact loans that will require repayment; the taxpayers will be on the hook for that. But where did that money we will be repaying go? Did we receive any benefit from the funds we will pay for? I smell another huge scandal on the horizon for our Socialist leaders.
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News & Articles
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{ Translations by www.DeepL.com/Translator }
SPAIN
Second vice-president, socialist Díaz, admits truth on the lowering of VAT on some foods, “It is not a measure that we believe can help”:
{Translation}
– The Second Vice-President and Minister of Employment and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, considers that the lowering of VAT on certain foods in the shopping basket, included in the Royal Decree-Law on measures to deal with the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine approved for a final vote yesterday, “is not the measure that she believes can help”.
– However, she defended the fact that the tax measure for certain foodstuffs included by the government “is not what the conservative Popular Party and the large distributors want”. “What they wanted was an absolutely generalised reduction in VAT on foodstuffs, and this is not happening in any way”, she stressed.
Source, Spanish: https://www.europapress.es/economia/macroeconomia-00338/noticia-diaz-bajada-iva-algunos-alimentos-no-medida-creemos-pueda-ayudar-20221228125643.html
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The PP plans a hot January for President Sánchez as releases of corrupt embezzler officials due to begin: {Translation, summary}
– The Sanchez government achieved its goal of ending the year with the crime of embezzlement reduced. From the PP, however, they are not going to give truce to the Executive with this matter and, in fact, they are already preparing a hot January against Pedro Sánchez for this decision focused on the first releases of corrupt people that will begin to be approved at the beginning of 2023.
– Last Thursday, with the whole of Spain awaiting the Christmas lottery draw, the Senate approved the reduction of the crime of embezzlement that ‘exonerates’ politicians who have not benefited financially from the fraudulent use of public money they were responsible for managing. The reform, tailor-made for the pro-independence leaders behind the pro-Crime, will, according to the PP, provoke “the same effect as the ‘only yes is yes’ law”, shortening the sentences of convicts, and clogging the courts with case reviews.
– The PP’s expectation, explains this source, is that the judges, from the second week of January, will begin to study the requests they are already receiving from “lawyers of politicians convicted of corruption”, and that the first judicial decisions will be taken as a result of the reduction of embezzlement. Source, Spanish: https://www.vozpopuli.com/espana/pp-enero-caliente-sanchez-excarcelaciones-corruptos.html
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The pension system is unsustainable and Minister of Social Security Escrivá knows it- pension spending reaches a new record of 10,943 million, 6.15% more… and on January 1 pensions will rise 8.5%: {Translation}
– Spending on contributory pensions reached a record 10,943 million euros in December, 6.15% more than in the same month of 2021, the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration reported on Tuesday.
– Bearing in mind that pensions will rise from 1 January by 8.5%, the Sánchez government is taking us straight towards bankruptcy, both for Social Security and for the Spanish economy, because the current level of public spending is clearly unsustainable.
– The average pension in the system amounted to 1,095 euros per month in December. This amount, which includes the different types of pensions (retirement, permanent disability, widowhood, orphan’s pension and family allowance), has increased by 5.3% in the last year.
– The average retirement pension in the system is 1,259.8 euros. By schemes, the average retirement pension from the General Scheme is 1,407 euros per month, while the lowest is in the Self-Employed Scheme, at 838.6 euros/month. In the Coal Mining sector, the average monthly pension is 2,455.4 euros, and 1,398.7 euros in the Sea Scheme. The average amount of new pension registrations in the system amounted to 1,378.65 euros per month in November 2022 (latest data). The average widow’s or widower’s pension is 781.7 euros per month.
– Three quarters of December’s contributory pension payroll went to retirement pensions, 72.6%, or 7,939.6 million euros. Widow’s and widower’s pensions accounted for 1,842.1 million euros, while permanent disability benefits amounted to 982.6 million euros, orphan’s benefits to 150 million euros and benefits for family members to 28.8 million euros.
– Spending on contributory pensions stood at 11.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in December, lower than in 2020 (12.4% of GDP), a year conditioned by the impact of the pandemic on GDP, and also lower than in 2021 (12.1% of GDP). Source. Spanish: https://www.hispanidad.com/economia/sistema-es-insostenible-escriva-sabe-gasto-en-pensiones-alcanza-nuevo-record-10943-millones-615-mas-1-enero-se-revalorizaran-85_12039302_102.html
MALAGA
Doctors report big increase in respiratory illnesses in Malaga province:
– There has been a significant rise in the number of people with colds and flu in Malaga recently and staff at health centres with emergency departments say they are seeing as many as 400 cases a day.
– The symptoms normally begin with a sore throat and runny nose, and then a fever with temperatures of 38 – 39 degrees for 24 to 48 hours. The patients normally recover within five days and medical staff say they are seeing very few cases with complications.
– During the worst days of the illness, patients with flu may also suffer pain all over their body and sometimes a bronchial infection. Some have reported vomiting and diarrhea at first as well, similar to gastroenteritis. Full article: https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/cold-flu-respiratory-infections-20221228102636-nt.html
NERJA
Nerja receives €1,000,000 from the Diputación Provincial for the Municipal Library: {Translation, summary}
– The Municipal Library will have a surface area of 811 square metres and will have large spaces divided into three floors, a terrace overlooking the sea and two basement floors. “It will be a modern, spacious and functional library, which will be located in the surroundings of the Balcón de Europa, the tourist heart of Nerja”.
Source, Spanish: https://www.axarquiaplus.es/nerja-recibe-1-000-000-eros-de-la-diputacion-provincial-para-la-biblioteca-municipal-plan-de-infraestructuras/
SPORTS
Tennis News- Kyrgios’s late United Cup withdrawal surprises Australia team mates:
– Kyrgios, who is ranked 22nd in the world and reached this year’s Wimbledon final, was set to lead Australia in the joint ATP and WTA event, which is being held in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth and offers ranking points and $15 million in prize-money. Organisers said the 27-year-old, who was due to face Britain’s Cameron Norrie in his first singles match on Thursday in Group D, withdrew due to injury.
– Alex de Minaur, who will now move into the number one men’s position for Team Australia, wanted to avoid discussing Kyrgios and focus on the upcoming event. Photo: Guglielmo Mangiapane. Full article: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/australias-kyrgios-withdraws-united-cup-with-injury-2022-12-28/
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