Swiss duty free retailer Dufry (DUFN.S) said on Thursday it sees "encouraging signs" for a pick up in foreign travel this summer after pandemic restrictions drove a 67% plunge in first-quarter underlying turnover. The retailer, which operates more than 2,300 shops at airports, on cruise liners, in seaports, and other tourist locations worldwide, said it has great expectations for the coming months, adding that last week was the best in terms of sales volumes since the beginning of the pandemic

MADRID, April 15 (Reuters) - Britain’s exit from the European Union has hit Spanish imports from Britain in the first two months of the year as new EU trade rules disrupt trade flows across the Channel. Spain’s imports from the UK decreased 49% in the first two months of the year compared with the same period a year ago. By contrast, intra-EU trade data showed Spanish imports fell only 7%, the Spanish industry ministry said on Thursday. During the same period, Spanish exports to Britain decreased 15%, much more than the 5.1% drop of Spain’s sales to other EU partners. The ministry hasn’t provided trade balance data with individual countries.

- Spain’s tax agency said on Monday it would start using “big data” to track wealthy individuals who pretend to reside abroad for tax purposes. The crackdown comes after some of Spain’s most popular YouTube personalities moved their residency to Andorra, a wealthy microstate perched in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain, with lower tax rates than its larger neighbours. As part of a push to harness more varied data, the agency will sift through as many as 70 different sources, including records from other tax payers, to highlight a few suspected fraudsters, a source with the agency said. The tax agency did not say what had motivated its clampdown. Two weeks ago, Ruben Doblas, who posts YouTube videos under the moniker El Rubius, announced via livestream that he was moving to Andorra, stirring a debate in the Spanish media about where digital high-earners should pay their taxes.

MADRID/GDANSK (Reuters) - Fearful of catching the coronavirus while also feeling the pinch from recession, Spaniards are increasingly shunning public transport and turning to cheap old cars, industry data shows, in a trend that risks more toxic emissions. Sales of vehicles older than 20 years jumped 31% year-on-year in July and August to nearly 44,000 cars, according to data from the Institute of Automotive Studies. The average price of those purchases was around 1,400 euros ($1,655.36), vehic

(Reuters) - Women make up one third of executive boards but occupy only a small minority of leadership roles in Europe’s biggest companies, according to a study by an EU-sponsored non-profit organization. The study, published on Wednesday by Brussels-based association European Women on Boards, found that only 28 women headed companies included in Europe’s STOXX 600 index, which tracks companies across 17 European countries. Only 7% of those companies have female board chairs. The United Nation

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