Andorra requires foreigners living there to speak Catalan

Catalan is the official language of the 468-square-kilometer Andorra, which lies between France and Spain’s Catalonia region, but its use has declined in recent years. The purpose of the law is to maintain the status of this language. Of the 80,000 Andorran residents, about half are citizens of this country. The country is also home … Read more

The Andorran justice overturns TheGrefg’s eviction demand and agrees with the elderly woman | News from Catalonia

In the summer of 2020, after moving to live in Andorra to pay less taxes, The Grefg bought a housing block in the municipality of Escaldes through the Grefito company. He youtuber He stopped renewing the rental contracts of the few neighbors who remained on the property. In the end, only the old woman was … Read more

Andorra is choked by ‘youtubers’ | Catalonia | Spain

He youtuber Rubén Doblas, popularly known as The Rubius, was the one who sparked the controversy. In January 2021, when the pandemic was still very present in homes across half the planet, El Rubius announced in a broadcast of Twitch who was leaving Spain and moving to Andorra. He streamer He justified his decision by … Read more

Clau Bunny, the Andorran ‘tiktoker’ who rebels against ‘youtubers’: “Andorra has sold itself abroad with money” | Catalonia | Spain

At ‘tiktoker’ Clau Bunny. The legal battle that youtuber David Cánovas, known as TheGrefg, maintains an 80-year-old woman in Andorra whom he wants to evict, marking a before and after in the relationship between Andorran citizens and the streamers. It has precisely been another content creator, Clau Bunny, the tiktoker Andorran with the most followers … Read more

Fight against smoking: a bill to (really) limit the cross-border sale of cigarettes

2023-11-12 20:23:11 A cigarette must be smoked in the country where it was purchased. This is the philosophy of the bill tabled last Tuesday in the National Assembly by Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons). Supported by around ten deputies from its group, the text proposes that an order of the Ministers of Health and the Budget fixes … Read more

Alan García: Accounts of ex-officials of Alan García’s government are frozen | Odebrecht | figureheads | second government of Alan García | NMR | POLITICS

The Principality of Andorra prosecutor’s office ordered the freezing of various bank accounts with amounts totaling almost US$3 million, which are linked to former officials of the second government of Allan Garcia and others prosecuted in the corruption scheme deployed by the company Odebrecht. These are seven accounts in the Private Bank of Andorra (BPA) … Read more