News of the day 20 August 2015
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Tourism is the basis for Majorca and Balearic economic performance.

Economy

Balearics the strongest performing tourism economy

The Balearics is the Spanish tourism region with the highest ratio of employment creation.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

Minister Barceló listens to Calvia mayor, Alfonso Rodríguez.

Tourism

Calvia mayor stressing the need for all-inclusive regulation

Tourism minister, Biel Barceló, has been seeing for himself what projects are needed by the resorts.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

Image from a fire in Son Anglada, Establiments, last month.

Environment

Balearic firefighting budget up in 2015

Andalusia, for example, has over four million hectares of forest, while the Balearic Islands between them have just 223,000.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

It could need a lot more of this to cool off in future.

Environment

Risks from climate change in the Mediterranean

The World Wildlife Fund has warned that sea level could rise by up to 59 centimetres this century.

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporter

News / Comment

Comment

“Spanish” Chelsea

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was often accused of not liking Spanish players when he was the manager of Real Madrid. The Madrid sports newspapers would often blast the so-called "special one" for picking foreign talent before home-grown players.

Jason Moore

Holiday / Lifestyle

Eco-tax

Letters to the Editor

Eco-tax. "Sadness and astonishment is what I feel, as a Majorcan citizen, on reading the Viewpoint by Jason Moore about the spending and some points of view of the Bulletin’s readers regarding the eco-tax."

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