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blocked similar requests from other European countries including Denmark and Germany, but it is the first time it has happened to Spain. Last year, Swiss authorities moved to block a German export of Swiss ammunition for Gepard tanks and a Danish request to supply Piranha III battle tanks. Despite Switzerland’s lengthy neutrality stance, the country has complied with the European Union’s economic sanctions against Russia, leading Russia to label Switzerland as a ‘hostile’ state since the beginning of the war. terial Law. Any country purchasing weapons from Switzerland must gain permis
BARCELONA has officially recovered its population and has reached 1,656,725 registered people. These figures confirm that the city has broken the trend of the last two years.
The Municipal Data Office (OMD) shows that, in less than a year, the population registered in the city of Barcelona has increased by 16,744 people, 1 per cent.
This is revealed by the latest available data, which reach October 2022, and which evidence this stable and moderate upward trend, with the growth of one point compared to the last annual reading of the register, made on the first day of 2022.
The evolution of the population registered sion before reexporting them.
Switzerland has already
Broken trend
in Barcelona during the first 10 months of 2022 reveals two phases, one of initial decline with a minimum reached in March, and one of subsequent recovery since then, which reaches the peak in October 2022, with 1,656,725 people registered.
With regard to the population registered by nationality, no major variations are observed in relation to the previous months. At the beginning of October 2022, the Spanish population represented 76.8 per cent of the total resident population.
THE otter has reproduced in Spain’s Mogent River for the first time after more than four decades.
The Mogent River is in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, a tributary of the Besos, which runs through the province of Barcelona.
The new family group is made up of a female and two cubs, born in the summer, who already make daily trips accompanied by their mother. They will continue to do so until they reach approximately oneyearold, which is the average age of emancipation of this species.
In recent years, individuals had been detected periodically in the River Mogent, a tributary
