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Spains migrants welcome amnesty: It will help us in every way
Posted on“Foreign workers play a very important role when it comes to Spain’s macroeconomic success: the growth of its GDP, its strong and resilient labour market,” Elma Saiz, Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Immigration, tells the BBC. She underlines that, of the country’s 22 million registered workers, 14.1% are foreigners.
1975: Could you do your food shop just once a year?
Posted onIt’s a chore we all have to do regularly but in 1975 Nationwide went grocery shopping with a couple who bought all their supplies yearly rather than weekly. By borrowing a van and enlisting the help of supermarket staff to push their multiple bulging trollies outside to the carpark, the pair reckoned their £122 annual…
The Swiss city that lets you pay for most things with bitcoin
Posted onJohn LaurensonBusiness reporter, Lugano, Switzerland AFP via Getty Images Shops and restaurants across the Swiss city of Lugano now accept bitcoin In a McDonald’s by a lake surrounded by mountains, in the centre of the Swiss city of Lugano, a customer orders coffee. “Can I pay with bitcoin?” he asks, and the person behind the…
