The number of passengers travelling Alicante-Elche Airport grew by 9.7% to over 1.3 million people in April, coinciding with the Easter holidays, while the regional´s capital, Valencia Airport registered an increase of 12.9%, with 752,055 passengers. During the first 4 months of the year, 3.9 million passengers travelled through Alicante airport compared to 2.4 million at the Valencia hub. In …

Following a tragic summer on the roads of Spain, another disappointing buck to the trend of reducing fatalities, it is becoming increasingly clear to the DGT that a lack or responsible action by drivers can only be combated through further enforcement. The Director General of Traffic, Pere Navarro, is making it very clear, that the …

The councillor for tourism, Fanny Serrano, detailed various aspects relating to the data collection in a press conference, which, amongst other things, show how the tourist information offices have received a total of 11,265 visitors, and water consumption indicates a population equivalent to almost half a million people during the summer months. Serrano said that the number of inquiries that …

A Belgian couple in their mid-seventies were found dead in a Calpe building on Friday morning, with the man apparently killing his wife, before he threw himself off the ninth floor of the apartment block. The incident happened at around 8.45 am on Avenida de Europa, with the Guardia Civil saying that the couple split

A 49-year-old Belgian woman, who allegedly got 60 thousand euros of deposit money for non-existent flats on the Costa Blanca, has been arrested by the National Police in Formentera del Segura. Fellow Belgians were marked out for the scam as they paid deposits of between 12,500 and 15,500 euros for apartments in Calpe, which were

The Inbound Tourism Survey, showed a record figure of 16 million inbound tourists in the first four months of the year, an increase of 4.4% on the same period last year. The United Kingdom, France and Germany accounted for 53% of total inbound tourist...

This is hard to belief that some politicians promote more the culture of death than the culture of life. They want to regulate through the death of the people as the beginning of life through the abortion as the final of it (law of the dignified death) through the euthanasia with the death of the elderly, pensioners and any other person.

Euthanasia promoters are usually support in extreme cases of dramatic character with a strong emotional burden. However, we must remember that the law can not be developed on extreme cases and should avoid the "Macedonian effect"; I mean make a general rule on the basis of some exceptional or marginal cases.

Besides ideological, ethical and legal debates, it is very important to begin from the experience, I mean from the reality what has happened in countries where assisted suicide (Oregon of the US and Holland) and euthanasia (Holland and Belgium) has already legalized.

What has happened and is happening in these countries? In the daily practice it is very difficult, if not impossible, to control assisted suicide and euthanasia with rules and controls established at the beginning.

The reality is that the so-called "slippery slope" is producing because of that euthanasia is spreading from the terminally ill to euthanasia for the chronically ill, from euthanasia for the physical sick to euthanasia for the psychiatric sick and from voluntary euthanasia to involuntary.

Although at the beginning we talk about the terminally sick, then it extends to the chronically sick. Many pensioners who currently suffer from chronic diseases such as diabetes, osteoarthritis or asthma may be preferred objects for applying them dignified death or euthanasia.

Because of the slippery slope, we have passed to contemplate physical illness to psychiatric illness. People suffering from Alzheimer, Parkinson or depression may be threatened by euthanasia or dignified death and die.

The experience in countries that have legalized euthanasia leads us to say that the slippery slope has led us from the voluntary euthanasia to the non-voluntary. It has been proved that up to 25% of euthanasia victims occur in people who had expressed their desire to live, rejecting the dignified death
Some politicians of these nations have expressed their desire to expand the law to minors and people who are unable to express their will.

So pensioners can not be quite in view of the threat that people take their life because of outlined reasons. What to do in view of this danger? I think that we can do two things: the first one is to decide to whom we are going to deny the vote in the next elections, and the second one is to ask God for help and to the saint that we are more devotion that this law could not be approved.

Arturo Ramoro

The European Commission has presented plans that will facilitate the implementation of devices that block vehicles from starting if it detects that the driver has consumed alcohol. The plan extends a mechanism that already applies to drivers punished ...

Domestic traffic has grown by 22.5 percent at the airport in Alicante-Elche in March, compared to the same month last year, with an additional 107,628 passengers. Overall, a total of 669,004 passengers, 4.4 percentage points higher than 2014 were reco...

As part of the "European Police Stations" Project, under the Prüm Treaty, three officers from the French security forces are patrolling alongside Spanish officers in major tourist areas in Madrid, while another two police officers from the Portuguese Segurança Pública will travel to the Torremolinos-Benalmádena Police Station to help Portuguese students who travel to these towns as part of their studies.

As in previous years and during the summer holidays, French and Portuguese police officers in full uniform and carrying their regulation weapons are joining citizen protection teams in Spain to offer comprehensive services to French and Portuguese tourists in their own language. Within the framework of this collaboration, 24 Spanish National Police officers will travel to various police stations in Portugal and France to offer assistance to Spanish tourists.

Three French and two Portuguese officers

The three French officers who have travelled to Spain are Spanish speakers and will provide their services from 27 March to 6 April at the Central Police Station in Madrid. Their duties will comprise foot or vehicle patrols, helping the victims of crime, preventing unlawful conduct and providing assistance when people wish to file an official report.

In turn, the two officers from the Portuguese Segurança Pública will travel to Spain in a police vehicle and wearing their own uniform from 20 March to 30 March to help Portuguese students travelling to Torremolinos and Benalmádena for their study trips.

The goal is to be on-hand for tourists and offer comprehensive citizen protection support from police officers who speak their own language and know the legal procedures of both countries. To do so, they will patrol areas that are highly popular with tourists. The joint patrols represent another step in international collaboration and police cooperation, foster improved services to the public and allow the concept of cross-border security to be consolidated.

"European Police Stations" initiative since 2008

The Spanish National Police has been involved in the "European Police Stations" initiative since 2008; an initiative that is also being supported by officers from other European countries, such as Italy, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. On this occasion, four officers from the Spanish National Police will travel to police stations in Lisbon and Braga from 1 April to 6 April, while approximately 20 others will support the services provided to Spanish tourists in various French cities - including Carcassonne, Nimes, Versailles, Avignon, and Marseille.

They will also provide services at Disney Land Paris on an intermittent basis between April and the end of the year.

In the first two months of the year, the average spend per day rose by 5.4% to 113 euros and the average spend per tourist rose by 3.4% to 1,018 euros. The United Kingdom, with a spending total of 1.11 billion euros and an increase of 10.6%, and Franc...

Twenty ships from eight different countries are currently taking part in the training exercise 'Spanish Minex' off the coast between Alicante and Cartagena which will continue until 22 September. The exercise has been organized by the Spanish navy to ...