The decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to renew the authorization of IQOS (a Philip Morris electronic device that heats units of real tobacco instead of burning them) as a modified risk tobacco product has already become a key move to demonstrate the effectiveness of these ...
The average cost of electricity for households with a regulated or indexed tariff in the free market will be 136.98 euros/MWh this Monday, April 20, 2026, according to data published by Red Eléctrica. This price represents an increase of 49.85% compared to to the registered this Sundaywhich reached €91.41/MWh, which ...
Liliane Bervoets, an 87-year-old Belgian retiree, today enjoys what she herself defines as a “worry-free” old age thanks to a monthly pension of 2,184 euros. However, she maintains a complaint that thousands of European pensioners share, and that is that the five years she worked as a teller, during which ...
The Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community has recognized the total permanent disability of a self-employed plumber due to his dilated cardiomyopathy, added to the disorder due to the use of alcohol, cannabis, opiates, cocaine and heroin. For the court, the combination of these ailments and addictions makes ...
Pensioners look at the calendar from the first days of the month to confirm when they will collect pensions this month of April 2026. The rule says that the General Treasury of Social Security (TGSS) pays in arrears, that is, from the first business day of the following month. In ...
The average price of electricity for this Tuesday, April 21, 2026 falls to 45.28 euros per megawatt hour (euros/MWh) in the wholesale market according to data published by the Iberian Energy Market Operator (OMIE). Electricity will be paid 12.3% cheaper than this Monday when the average price was 50.85 euros ...
The artist Lolita Flores, sister of Rosario and Antonio and daughter of the legendary Lola Flores and El Pescaílla, is 67 years old and has 49 contributions to Social Security. But for now, he doesn’t want to talk about retiring, stopping working and starting to collect his retirement pension. This ...
New international health alert on baby foods. Several supermarkets in Europe have ordered the withdrawal of Hipp brand baby food after detecting packaging manipulated with dangerous substances, which has forced them to activate emergency protocols and ask families not to consume certain products. The alert began in Austria and, as ...
To retire in Spain in 2026, you need to have contributed at least 15 years to Social Security, two of them within the 15 years prior to retirement, and reach ordinary age. This minimum gives the right to 50% of the regulatory base. To collect 100% of the pension, in ...
A man must return more than 27,000 euros to the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) for collecting the contributory unemployment benefit (unemployment) and later the subsidy while he was working in Norway, without also communicating his transfer of residence. The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid agrees with the public ...