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I was recently approached to take part in a documentary for a UK television company. When the researcher first approached me, she advised that she was looking to create a ´human interest´ series based around Spanish property, featuring people who had emigrated from the UK to Spain. Over the following few weeks, the requests clearly indicated EXACTLY what the TV company was after.
I was asked by the researchers if I knew of any developments in Spain on which there was a high proportion of Brits, living life as they would normally do in the UK, albeit under the Spanish sunshine. It transpired that they wanted to create a sort of soap opera based around stereotypical Brits abroad, swigging lager, bellowing across the balconies, and meeting up for bingo!
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Last week the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that even though the economic situation may be tough at the moment an economic recovery is expected to start in the second half of 2009, refuting a report by the IMF stating that this would not happen until at least 2010. He also said that this year would be a serious challenge for his government but how he was determined that the recovery in Spain would be managed efficiently.
A huge 11 billion euro recovery budget was unveiled recently aimed at kick-starting the economy, by creating 300,000 new jobs using 8 billion euros and the remaining 3 billion euros is going into a Special State Fund which will be spent on the environment, struggling industries and research and development.
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