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...anger mounts over the acting prime minister’s plan to offer an amnesty to Catalan separatists in order to stay in power.The conservative opposition convened protests in 53 cities as Sánchez prepares to grant...
...Sánchez has allowed Yolanda Díaz, his deputy prime minister, to travel to Brussels to open talks with Puigdemont....
...Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel, who has presided over the jailing of hundreds of opposition activists, is likely to attend, diplomats said....
...The country’s regions are on course to be big winners from the fund, receiving some €21bn of Spain’s €70bn in grants....
...The reform’s roots lie in the coalition deal between the Socialists and Díaz’s smaller, radical left Podemos grouping two years ago....
...“We have met our commitment to agree in 2021 on new labour legislation that restores workers’ rights,” Yolanda Díaz, Spain’s communist employment minister, said on Twitter....
...Spain’s €70bn of recovery fund grants formally depends on meeting benchmarks agreed with Brussels....
...The EU says the reforms have to be carried out on time if Spain is to access the €70bn of grants under the bloc’s coronavirus recovery plan....
...Spain expects to receive €70bn in EU grants and a similar amount in loans over the 2021-2026 lifetime of the pandemic recovery plan....
...The European Commission also launched a broad consultation last month over the rights of workers in the gig economy, with a view to grant them the same rights as staff in more secure forms of employment....
...The European Commission has also been looking at measures to grant gig workers the same rights as staff in more secure forms of employment....
...My view is that bringing the pandemic under control is a global public good, which must be delivered by grants from rich countries....
...Cast into the shade are issues as momentous as Spain’s plan to spend €70bn in grants from the EU recovery package, which was approved by ministers on Tuesday, and the imminent end of the country’s coronavirus...
...Sánchez’s administration is hoping the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund — specifically €70bn in grants to Spain over the next three years — will help fuel economic recovery and boost its fortunes....
...Janet Diaz, lead for clinical care at the World Health Organization, said: “The challenges are very serious....
...Spain expects to be one of the main beneficiaries, with as much as €80bn in grants....
...Similarly, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez said in August that it was up to individual regions to ask the central government to grant them emergency powers to deal with the crisis....
...Mr Sánchez argues it is up to individual regions to ask the central government to grant them emergency powers if needed for specific areas....
...He’s what we need now,” said José Díaz, 39, who is out of work....
...Yet many US mayors are pushing back, saying they will fight the order’s legality, risking federal grants in the process....
...One of Chile’s most audacious groups, Teatro Niño Proletario, has benefited from government grants for its highly charged works....
...It could control spending, grant amnesty to political prisoners, investigate corruption and withhold permission for the president to travel abroad....
...In 2012, the MacArthur Foundation awarded him a “genius” grant. We find a table at the rear of the sparse but bright indoor section....
...Like tens of thousands of his compatriots, fed up with the lack of opportunity at home, Ramón has started to apply for jobs and grants outside Spain....
...Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam Grant, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 The assumption that winner takes all is brilliantly dismantled by Grant, who uses his and...
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