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According to AEMET on Thursday, January 12, “the entry of a mass of polar air will lower temperatures throughout Spain this weekend.”AEMET noted that the high temperatures of November and December, the warmest in a century and a half, will give way over the next few days to a winter atmosphere more fitting for the time of year.
Thousands of farmers protested in Madrid on Wednesday over the PSOE-Podemos coalition government’s plan to provide ecological protection for the Tagus river, reducing the amount of water taken from it to irrigate agricultural land in the country’s southeast.The protesters rallied in front of Spain’s ministry for ecological transition, demanding the resignation of Minister Teresa Ribera
Recent data from Eurostat reveal that despite the nine packages of sanctions placed on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, only seven of the 27 EU Member States reduced their imports from Russian territory in 2022.This was according to figures available between February and August of last year. They show these seven countries as Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, and Ireland.
