A Spanish radio commentator, Federico Jiménez Losantos, observed that there are 200,000 Germans in the Balearic Islands as potential hostages. Why? Read on.
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The Catalonia Question
by David Darby •
The big European news today is the Spanish governments vow to block any plans by Catalonia to hold a referendum on independence on 9th November 2014.
What’s the Teachers’ Strike About?
by Martin Myall •
Why is everybody against the new education bill? Mainly, it’s for eight reasons:
Blackmail?
by Martin Myall •
After the teachers in the Balearic Islands had been on strike for ten days, a conservative MP dropped a bomb shell: parents who are supporting the teachers strike run the risk of having their children removed from their care for not ensuring that they children go to school.
Pieces of Pep
by Editor •
Pep Benaiges, the pen behind the Gazette’s Spanish article, El Catalejos, is one of the most likeable people in La Herradura. He speaks excellent English and is very much into theatre, which runs in his family. But besides that, he has also probably the village’s most well known insurance broker/financial advisor, who set up business here in 1994.