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Manuel Labour isn’t Working for Spain as Truckers down Tyre Levers

Despite the futile efforts of the Spanish government to reduce the prices of gasoline and diesel fuel, the Platform for the Protection of the Transport Sector intends to continue the strike. The truckers’ protest has been going on for almost two weeks. The key workers are not satisfied with the proposed measures and they demand an immediate solution to the problem of skyrocketing fuel prices.

Why fuel prices in the US and Europe are rising against the backdrop of cheaper fuel in Russia

Against the background of the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow, oil on the world market has risen in price by more than one and a half times since the beginning of the year. The sharp rise in the cost of raw materials led to a rush increase in prices for motor fuel in the US and Europe. Meanwhile, in Russia, gasoline, on the contrary, began to gradually become cheaper. Experts attribute this to the action of a special damping mechanism. In addition, pricing features in the Russian fuel market also play a certain role, experts say.

If Europe had as many feet as a centipede it would shoot itself in every foot

Tourism in Italy is considered a backbone industry, which before the quizzical pandemic brought 13% of the country’s GDP, German TV channel Das Erste reports. In 2019, 1.7 million tourists from Russia visited Italy, leaving almost a billion euros on vacation, but because of the events in Ukraine, they are no longer counted on, which leads many companies in the Italian tourism sector to despair. The same picture emerges in Greece, Spain and Portugal.