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ETA's offer of truce convinces no-one

Spain cannot trust the truce announced by Basque separatist group ETA according to interior minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. ETA released its offer through the BBC around midday on Sunday. On Monday Snr Rubalcaba said Spain could not trust the anouncement and would continue to hunt down ETA members.

Spain tops immigrant list

Spain has the highest number of immigrants in percentage terms in the EU, followed by the UK, Italy and France, said the Eurostat office in Brussels yesterday(Tue). There were more than 5.6 million immigrants living in Spain - 12.3% of the country’s population - as of January 1st 2009.

Italian drugs chief arrested

The key drug baron in Spain for the Italian “Los Polverinos” camorra was arrested yesterday (Tuesday). Fabio Allegro, 46, was the right-hand man and major confidante of camorra head Guiseppe Polverino. He was in charge of the drugs links between Morroco and Spain, which earned millions of euros each year.

Hard winter for hotels

Despite an encouraging rise in tourism, the president of the Costa del Sol's Hoteliers Association, José Carlos Escribano, has warned that this coming winter will be a hard one and some hotels will have to close, as they did last year.

Jobless up again

Just over 61,000 people joined the dole queues in August, breaking a four month drop in unemployment, while 132,000 dropped out of the Social Security system. Economy minister Elena Salgado said that taken in a seasonal context, the rise was not “bad”. The total number of unemployed now stands at just under four million – 3,969,661.

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