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  • recovering

    The Bank of Spain forecasts that by 2015, the expansion of the Spanish economy will reach levels close to 2%. The General Director of Studies of the The Bank of Spain has indicated that the main economic indicators indicate that there is a gradual strengthening of economic activity, which confirms that Spain is emerging from…

  • To the queue in basic financial knowledge

    They bring out the colors again, this time in relation to the financial knowledge of young Spaniards. The data recently presented indicates that 16.5% of 15-year-old Spanish students do not reach the basic level of financial skills, since we are able to make simple decisions about daily spending and recognize what an invoice is for,…

  • lost in translation

    Thanks to Automotive Dictionary promoted by the companies BATZ, Cikautxo, Ekin, Elay, GKN and Maier, with the advice of the terminologists of the Elhuyar Language and Technology unit, the automotive sector will no longer find itself lost in translations. This specialized dictionary, which can be consulted in six languages: English, Spanish, Basque, French, German and…

  • The Spanish tax reform will pass the revalidation in Europe

    < img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7760" alt="New Personal Income Tax Tranches in Spain" src="https://naider.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Nuevos-Tramos-IRPF- in-Spain.png" width="560" height="260" /> The Spanish tax reform, already approved by the Government, for its European revalidation this week. The reform has already sparked criticism in the European Commission, as it is considered to jeopardize the deficit reduction targets set by Spain….

  • Basque for health

    The Commonwealth of Txorierri Services and the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) has launched the GARUNA project, a project focused on teaching Basque to 120 people over the age of 60 who will be individually monitored by the BCBL in order to assess the general state and progressive improvement of the brain…

  • The IMF oracle: things slow down

    The director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has warned that the growth rate for both 2014 and 2015 is lower than expected and is committed to investment (public and private) as a measure to boost economic activity. Although the data will not be presented by the IMF for another two weeks, Lagarde outlined…

  • Yes, touched and sunk! Although not only Gowex

    The other day we were echoing the news about the Wi-Fi operator Gowex and the accusations made against this company by a consultant. I don’t know if it was a speculative move on the part of the accusing company or if there was something true in all of it. The news does not stop regarding…

  • Can technology solve our big problems?

    We bring you here a TED conference that seems very timely in these times of scarcity where it seems difficult to prioritize efforts and direct resources. In it, renowned Anglo-American journalist Jason Pontin takes a detailed look at the challenges we face in using technology effectively… that is, for the problems that really matter. The…

  • What is innovation? Innovation is you… Well, your ideas!

    Many times we do not know how to describe what innovation is. Its definition always slips through our fingers. Innovation has generated plans, policies, MBAs, academic discussions, public agencies for its promotion… but we have never fully conceptualized it. In this video, which is already a couple of years old, innovation is shown in a…

  • Science has no woman’s name

    Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (former European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science) has presented the report She Figures 2013 on the status of women in science. Once again, the data presented shows that we are far from achieving gender equality in the field of research. Specifically, the report reveals that only three, if three, out of every…