In Thursday’s Spanish news, Ministry of Health to present smoking ban plan, Court clarifies that only pirate football platforms will be identified, not the end user, and Civil War exhumation begins today. In the business world, Thursday’s focus will be inflation.
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The Ministry of Health will take its anti-smoking plan to the Public Health Commission today, amongst which it is proposing
prohibiting smoking and vaping in “certain outdoor community and social spaces” and in other private spaces in the presence of minors, as well as increasing the price.
The intention of the department headed by Mónica García is to “continue increasing these emission-free spaces and thus ensure that a non-smoking person can carry out their daily life without being exposed.
This is a preliminary draft in which scientific societies and entities related to the field of smoking have participated and which has yet to be submitted to the judgment of the general directors of Public Health, but in it the ministry makes clear it is committed to reducing the prevalence of tobacco consumption and advancing actions “in the face of the challenge of emerging products.”
The Superior Court of Justice (TSJ) of Catalonia has clarified that
telecom firms must identify the pirate platforms that illicitly redistribute the signal of football matches to third parties and profit from it, and not the end users themselves.
The clarification came after the ruling was published after the Commercial Court number 8 of Barcelona has admitted the preliminary diligence requested by LaLiga de Fútbol Profesional and requires the operators to provide the personal data of those who illicitly share their contents, that is, only the ‘cardsharers’ who redistribute the signal to third parties and obtain a profit from it, the TSJ of Catalonia highlighted in a statement.
Continuing with its search work at the request of the relatives of missing, murdered and clandestinely buried people during the Civil War and Francoism, the Recuerdo y Dignidad association, with the help of the Aranzadi Science Society, will begin this Thursday the work of
exhumation in a grave in Adradas (Soria) after successful prospecting carried out in July last year.
In this survey, at the last moment and after several days of excavation in which a huge amount of earth was moved (1,300 cubic metres in an area of 1,756 square metres), a common grave with, according to the information compiled by the association, four civilians murdered in October 1936.
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Business, Markets and Statistics
The final inflation data for February in Spain will be the main macro reference of a day in which the Executive Committee of the European Banking Federation meets in Frankfurt.
In the US, investors will be watching retail sales and the Producer Price Index, both for February.
Back in Spain, the day begins with the INE publishing the final data of the CPI and harmonised CPI for February, and the Bank of Spain publishes the Financing of the Eurosystem for February.
In the Eurozone, Eurostat brings to light company and bankruptcy records for January, and the ECB publishes quarterly pension fund statistics.
Finally, in the UK, we will have monthly NHS key services performance data, quarterly statistics on counter-terrorism legislation, farm business income forecasts, and UK regional trade. There might also be a dead cat in the news, a so-called distraction article, as MPs’ expenses are also published.
We will also have results from John Lewis Partnership, and Foxconn, amongst others.
Things to Do Today
Aircraft fans can look forward to RACEFEST, Madrid, taking place on 16 March, where the Patrulla Aguila aerobatic team from San Javier will be taking part, before showcasing their skills locally in the San Javier Airshow, taking place from 3rd-5th May – Festival Aéreo San Javier – over the playas de Santiago de la Ribera, San Javier, Murcia. They are also at the DIFAS 2024, taking place in Oviedo on 1 June, and on 15th June, the 50º Aniversario del ALA 14, in Albacete, where a competition is open to design a Eurofighter livery.
If your love of the sky means watching people jumping out of planes, then there´s good news for you too, as on 19th March – Fiestas Patronales de Puerto de Mazarrón 2024, in Murcia, sees the Patrulla Acrobática de Paracaidismo del Ejército del Aire (PAPEA) parachutists perform, and on 31st March they are at the Conmemoración de “El Encuentro” de Alcantarilla, also in Murcia, before the team head overseas in April to attend the 5th FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship, in Macau, China.
For more local events, pick up
The Leader newspaper every Monday, and
This is Torrevieja for Torrevieja events.
Local Markets
Thursday markets are held in Alicante, Bigastro,
Campoamor (Orihuela Costa), El Altet (Elche),
Gran Alacant, Lo Pagan (San Pedro del Pinatar),
Rojales, and
San Fulgencio (La Marina).
The roads will of course be busy around those locations.
Traffic and Travel
All this week, and through the weekend, the Guardia Civil and Local Police I many areas will be joining in with a campaign, coordinated by the European Traffic Police network, ROADPOL, which will be focussing on the correct use of seat belts and safety systems, including child restraints and crash helmets.
These devices have one single purpose, that is to try to keep us safe, but they can only do that if they are used, and used correctly. Therefore, as part of the periodic awareness campaign, traffic police across Europe will be ensuring compliance with all of the regulations which aim to make the roads a little bit safer for all.
Remember that if you are venturing into the mountain areas, which in some cases might be less than an hour from the sunny coast, snow chains should be a consideration to avoid getting stranded.
The same as last week, the weekend is going to be busy on the roads particularly around winter leisure areas, which includes second homes, but mostly the mountainous regions for winter sports. We will have the full details of the busiest times in tomorrow’s bulletin.
We also have Father’s Day on Tuesday, a national holiday, and some people may take Monday off as a bridging day and head to the coast from Friday for a long weekend.
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Official Websites for Travel Information
On This Day
2020, the Royal Decree was approved by which the State of alarm and confinement was established due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
1995, the Statutes of Autonomy for the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla are approved.
1909, in Barcelona the Camp del Carrer Indústria, former stadium of the Barcelona Football Club, is inaugurated.
