PODCAST: Olive you at a lower price - what's behind the high cost of basic food products?
While prices increase in supermarkets, farmers are paid less for the raw product
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Basic food products see 30% price hike in two years
Milk, tomatoes, olive oil, rice and eggs among items most affected
Catalonia's Maria Branyas becomes oldest living person on Earth at 115
Born in 1907, she takes over Lucile Randon, a 118-year-old French nun who died on Tuesday
November inflation rate lowest since January
Prices in Catalonia up 6.4% compared to last year, with the rate dropping for the fourth consecutive month
PODCAST: Feeling the pinch – lowdown on inflation, bills and shopping tips
A look at the cost of living crisis plus money saving advice from OCU Consumer Organization
Population of Catalans living abroad increases 4.6% in 2019
Biggest increases were seen in France and the United Kingdom
Building of 15,000 homes by Costa Brava halted
Projects stopped as government launches more restrictive environmental regulation
Supreme Court limits evictions to 12 missed installments
Spanish judges set doctrine after EU court labelled previous ruling on mortgages “abusive”
Guttmann institute boosts independent living in Barcelona
Apartments for disabled patients give second life to old hospital where institution was born 53 years ago
Catalonia to become pioneer testing ground for autonomous and connected cars in Europe
Catalonia will offer a pioneer testing ground for autonomous and connected cars. This Thursday the Catalan Minister of Business and Knowledge, Jordi Baiget, and the Catalan Home Affairs Minister, Jordi Jané, announced the project launch at the Barcelona Automobile congress, currently taking place, from 11 to 21 May in the Fira exhibition center. The ‘Catalonia Living Lab’ project, designed by the Catalan Government, the industry and sector agents, aims to offer vehicle and component manufacturers to conduct tests and validations of this technology on Catalan roads, circuits, and in cities. To begin with, the ‘Catalonia Living Lab” tests areas will include 7 routes of almost 200 km, 7 areas of more than 12 square kilometers, and 3 circuits in different places around the country.
Prices in Catalonia rise by 1% and contribute to a 0.9% annual inflation rate in October
Prices went up by 1% in October, in comparison to September, and left the annual inflation rate in Catalonia at 0.9%, according to the definitive data released on Tuesday by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE). The products that influenced the increase in prices most were the clothing and footwear sector, due to the start of the winter season, and the price of electricity and fuel – both rose in October this year, while they decreased in the same month of 2015. The inflation rate at the end of October is the highest registered since August 2013, when it reached 1.7%, and confirms an upward trend that has now lasted for three months.