What the means count

The prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, agreed on Tuesday with the principal banks and banks of Spanish savings to impel measurements to increase the guarantee of the deposits of the thifty persons.

“The president informed this evening the persons in charge of the principal banks and savings banks of the measurements that the Government will adopt with immediate character to increase the guarantees of the existing deposits in the financial institutions”, he said the Department of the Presidency in a note.

The department did not contribute any detail with regard to the increase of the guarantees and simply it pointed out that the measurements try “to reinforce the confidence of the citizens, the depositors and the companies of our country”.

Shoemaker supported a meeting of two hours with the presidents of BBVA, Box Madrid, Popularly, The Caixa and Unicaja and with the manager of the Bank Santander to treat on the crisis of world liquidity and his effect on the Spanish entities.

Finished news | Spain will impel more guarantees in the deposits (Yahoo | News) Noticias)

From October 1 the shops and points of sale of batteries are forced for law to accept batteries, portable batteries and secondhand batteries of free form. We already have no excuse to throw them to the garbage.

The innovation of the Royal decree 106/2008 (to see pdf) that came into force in September is that it forces the distributors, that is to say, to the points of sale, to accept without any charge for the consumer the return of the batteries and portable batteries used at the moment of selling to them new products.

Finished news | The shops are forced to accept your secondhand batteries (Soitu.es)

Last 15th, Infanta Helen was coming to his first working day like director of social and cultural projects of the Foundation Mapfre, a position of half a day for which they say that he will receive 200.000 euros a year.

His decision to initiate a new career coincides with the coexistence cessation with Jaime Marichalar - president of the Foundation AXA and member of the council of administration of five societies of this group insurer - what makes suspect that he might answer to the need of Mrs Helen to round his income after the separation.

Finished news | Payrolls and real income (20 minutes)

The crisis of the mortgages garbage in the United States (suboccupies first place) it has increased the problems of the Spanish economy, but it has not created them, as there defends now the prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. The happiness with which the financial institutions have given credit to the families and to the companies, to the dawn of the real estate bubble has put Spain in a difficult situation, since the debt is untenable.

Finished news | how will it affect the crisis subgive priority to the Spanish? (Libertad Digital) (Libertad Digital)

The Defender of the People, Enrique Múgica, warned it a few days ago and an opinion poll of a reputable center of the United States seems now to corroborate it. The risk that the racism and the intolerance turn into important problems in Spain is high.

This was the message of alert of Múgica. That of Pew Research Centre of Washington is that the anti-Semitic feeling and the islamofobia are growing in parallel for diverse countries of Europe. Pero España heads the list of the states where more the rejection attitudes have increased. Pero España encabeza la lista de estados donde más han aumentado las actitudes de rechazo.

Finished news | Spain, the most anti-Semitic country of Europe (soitu.es)

Spain continues at the head of the planet for volume of received immigration, as it gets rid of the last report of the Organization for the Cooperation and the Economic Development (OCDE), published this month, although it operates with information of 2006, which are the last available ones. This year, the population of foreign origin was already constituting 12 % of the entire population of the OECD countries, an increase of 18 % with regard to 2000.

A third of all the transfers of permanent type - immigration without will of temporary stay, but of establishment in the destination - registered in 2006 went to stop the United States; the United Kingdom received concerning 900.000 permanent immigrants; and Spain appears in the third place with 800.000 displacements, followed by Canada and Germany. y España aparece en tercer lugar con 800.000 desplazamientos, seguida de Canadá y Alemania.

In the studied period, nearly four million permanent immigrants arrived to countries integrated to the OCDE, especially of Europe, what supposes an increase of 5 % with regard to the previous year (2005). The proportional increases (as regards the entire population) bigger happened in Portugal, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark. As for the temporary immigration - because of punctual work, especially - the report the number in 2.500.000 foreign workers. En cuanto a la inmigración temporal -por motivos de trabajo puntual, sobre todo-, el informe la cifra en 2.500.000 trabajadores foráneos.

Finished news | Spain happens to be the third country that more immigrant (Gaceta.es) receives

Spain is different in education with showy clair-obscure. It fills the last vacancies of Europe in postgraduates in Baccalaureate or equivalent levels, but he is a leader in university alumni (39 % of the young people from 25 to 34 years), according to the indicators of the OCDE, which today the international organism has done publics.

The comparative study shows that Spain has thrown the rest in this educational level and that, along with the access facility, the expense for university student has grown in five more years of the double than in the set of 37 countries analyzed by the organization.

The result is an increasing devaluation of the title, up to the point of that between the average salary of these postgraduates in 2006 and of those who have only the obligatory education 47 percentage points were coming up. In Germany the differential is 74, below the United Kingdom, 89, and the USA, with 110 points.

Finished news | Spain has the university students with the lowest wages of the OCDE (The Newspaper)