International fake pharmaceutical network broken up in Barcelona
The Catalan police uncovered a laboratory with over 200,000 pills whose active ingredient provokes a serious health risk.
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Barcelona to ban the burqa in municipal buildings
Barcelona?s Mayor has announced his intentions to ban the use of full-face veils in municipal buildings. The ban would be issued ?imminently? and would enter into force in September.
Catalan Parliament gives go-ahead for wage cuts in public sector
This measure is part of a plan to cut the public deficit at all levels of government. It has passed with the only positive votes from the parties in the Government´s Left-Wing coalition.
Barcelona receives European green light for cell therapy treatment
Hospital Clinic will be the first Catalan medical centre to provide cells for clinical use to fight some pathologies. The hospital has received the European certificate allowing such practices.
Protest against nuclear cemetery in Tarragona
Four hundred people block a road to oppose the nuclear warehouse at Ascó. The village has posted its candidature to host this controversial equipment, which will store all the nuclear waste produced in Spain in the last years and in the next decade.
Lleida City Council bans burqa in municipal buildings
Lleida becomes the first city in Spain to prohibit full-face veils
European Solar Rally 2010 kick starts in Catalan coastal town
Caldes d?Estrac hosts event to promote electric vehicles