Shorouk Express Spain’s Institute for Seniors and Social Services, along with the country’s Social Security system, are considering allowing Spaniards to enjoy subsided holidays outside of Spain through the Imserso scheme, as well as offering foreign retirees the chance to do the same but in Spain. According to leading Spanish newspaper ABC, the government is…
Shorouk Express “The victims, mainly of South American origin, were lured to Spain with bogus job offers,” police stated, adding they had rescued 48 women in an operation which brought 48 arrests. Most of those detained, including the three alleged ring leaders — two Colombian women and one Spaniard — were held near the eastern…
Shorouk Express The sound of children playing once again fills the streets of Burbáguena since a refugee centre opened in the small village in Spain’s sparsely populated northeast, delighting older residents. “Seeing so many children is wonderful,” said 73-year-old pensioner Pilar Rubio, who immigrated to Germany in her youth before moving back to the village…
Shorouk Express It’s hard to believe now, but when Airbnb first launched, one of its main draws was to ‘live like a local’ in a foreign country, perhaps stay with them, or experience what living in a property very different from yours back home was like. This ‘homestay’ or familial experience can still be found,…
Shorouk Express New figures have revealed that the number of arraigo permits, a type of residency permit given out to formerly undocumented immigrants in Spain, has increased by 500 percent in just a decade. In 2013 there were just 43,858 foreigners with one of Spain’s four types of arraigo (social, educational, labour and family) but by…
Shorouk Express The Spanish government is offering a total of 750 places for language assistants in state schools, for those from certain countries with which it has agreements with. This year for the first time, candidates from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the United Kingdom and Switzerland can apply. Graduates and university…
Shorouk Express Barnes’ report reveals a remarkable 30 percent increase in transactions carried out by foreign buyers in 2024 when compared to the previous year. Furthermore, sales prices have reached impressive figures, with up to €16,500 euros per square metre for second-hand homes. According to Barnes, the trend is attributed to the security that investment…
Shorouk Express “It is too early at the moment to talk about deploying troops in Ukraine. There is no peace at the moment, and the effort has to be to achieve it as soon as possible,” Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares told a joint news conference with his visiting Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira. “When we…
Shorouk Express In just one year, around 200,000 foreigners have chosen to move to and take up jobs in rural Spain, helping to combat the problems of so-called ‘Empty Spain’. Depopulation has been an increasing issue in Spain over the last decades and villages across the country’s interior have been trying to come up with…
Shorouk Express The Spanish property market has experienced an upward surge in recent years, with both the purchase and rental prices inflating. This is especially true in the post-pandemic period, and even truer of the rental markets in Spain’s major cities, where average rents have broken the €1,000/month barrier in many places. As such, where…
