Madrid has top wages

Residents of Madrid are the most expensive workers in Spain after those in the Basque country, earning on average € 2056.41 per month, according to figures released by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) for the third quarter of...

Madrid transport fare rises

Public transport prices in Madrid are to rise by up to 21.7 per cent in 2010 despite the widespread expectation that the Índice de Precios de Consumo (IPC) will continue to fall to a negative position in 2010. The Consejo...

Prado Christmas openings

Madrid’s world-famous Museo Nacional del Prado has brought in special late-night tours over the Christmas period. As a one-off, the museum on Calle Ruiz de Alarcón is to open its temporary exhibits for two hours every night between 20.30 and...

Madrid positive about immigrants

Over 70 per cent of Madrid’s immigrant residents feel that they have never been discriminated against, according to a report by Madrid city council. Announced by a spokesperson for the city’s social services department, Concepción Dancausa, the key points of...

Madrid commits to more free wireless hotspots

Madrid is going a step further in its commitment to providing free-to-access wireless internet in the city. It has now activated wireless ‘hotspots’ at 72 newspaper stalls throughout the city and has plans to roll the scheme out to 120...

More flexibility needed for gifted children

Madrid has over 4,000 gifted students who are experiencing problems at school, says an association set up to forward the cause of especially gifted young people – Asociación de Superdotados (AEST) – and is calling for gifted students between...

Madrid’s kids start smoking young

Almost a third of all children in Madrid between the ages of 15 and 16 are smokers, according to a recent study. The same study also found that half of all young people under 18 in Madrid smoke. The figures...

Poverty in Madrid

More than 13 out of every hundred Madrid residents are living below the poverty line. The proportion has risen from 9.5 per cent of the population to 13.3 per cent over the last four years, according to the CC OO...

Madrid moves up Cushman and Wakefield list.

Madrid has risen up the rankings in the annual Cushman and Wakefield survey of Europe’s major business cities. Over the last 20 years of the survey undertaken by international real estate agents Cushman and Wakefield Madrid has risen from 17th...

Madrid police increase prosecutions

The number of people arrested and successfully prosecuted by Madrid’s Policía Municipal has grown by 265 per cent in the last five years – from 4,211 people in 2003 to 15,361 in 2008. At the same time the number of...