News from El Punt Avui

society

The Kings get a warm welcome in Barcelona

Barcelona travel to Madrid to take on Getafe

Barcelona return from the winter break with a trip to Madrid to take on Getafe at 8.45pm. Barça currently top the table, three points clear of Atlético, with Getafe in seventh place on 25 points. While...

economy

Tax Office returns €1.6bn to over 2.1m taxpayers

The Tax Office has returned €1.6 billion to over 2.1 milion Catalan taxpayers. The official figures for 2018 show that 93% of taxpayers in Catalonia have received their rebates from their declarations...

Three die in Badalona in apartment building blaze

Three people lost their lives and another 30 were injured, with 16 hospitalised, in a fire yesterday morning in a 10-storey building in the Sant Roc neighbourhood, in Badalona. One of the people who died...

The other eighty per cent

society

Ombudsman makes air pollution recommendations

The Ombudsman has released a series of recommendations for reducing air pollution in Barcelona and the surrounding area. Rafael Ribó argues for such measures as improving public transport connections...

business

CaixaBank sets Jan 10 for talks over branch closures

CaixaBank has proposed January 10 as the day to present to unions the details of the bank’s strategic plan for 2019-2021, which foresees the closure of 821 branches, reducing the total number to 3,640....

education

School application dates will be from March 29 to April 9

The education department has announced March 29 to April 9 as the dates to apply for places in public schools for the 2019/2020 academic year. The dates were chosen so that the application period will...

society

144 million euros to be spent on water sanitation over five years

Barcelona prepares to welcome the Kings