Nationalized 482 foreigners in Ibiza

The past year, 482 foreigners requested to become Spaniards, 342 more than year 2000, according to the data of the Civil Registration. If you want to know why every one wants to be a spanierd you have to come to Ibiza.

Of the different modalities to obtain the citizenship, only the one of ` varios´ (that includes the modality of ` option´ by which, among other assumptions, the children have been born Spaniards can be recognized as spanierds) stays in similar levels, when happening from 28 to 24. The formula more used to obtain the Spanish D.N.I. is the one of ` residencia´ (10 years of domiciliación in Spain as a general period, although with exceptions for Hispano-Americans and refugees, among others), that is what was used by 365 people in 2005, as opposed to the 108 of 2000. This increase of 238% remains small if compared with the rise of the 2,225% (it has gone from 4 to 93) in the case of ` presunción´, by which the children of foreign parents been born in Spain obtain the nationality if the legislation of the country of his ancestors prevents them to inherit the citizenship.

Ibiza:Tourists turned aside to other destinies

Socialist deputy Patricia Abascal alerted yesterday of one of the consequences that the construction of the highway will have in the Canicula: "the touroperators will turn aside clients to other destinies". The great tourist companies will send to the tourists to other zones of the Mediterranean to avoid the complaints derived from the cloggings, the bad image and the unconfortablenes. Abascal predicts that there will be a circulatory collapse each afternoon in ses Salines and each morning in the exit of the discos with the people who circulate around the highway of Sant Antoni in the direction to their jobs in Ibiza: "the image of a generalized chaos will be transmitted to the tourists and they will ask what happend with the island and if that is the calmness destiny that had been sold to them". The "irresponsibility, the audacity and the great power of the Popular Party" will generate a "serious economic problem" this summer. Today the Parlament will ask "what incidences will the construction have during the season".

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The courts of Ibiza finished 2005 with 4,571 pending causes

The courts of Ibiza accumulated 4,571 pending causes when finalizing the past year, according to the data that appear in the Memory of 2005 of the Superior Court of Justice of Balears (TSJB) presented yesterday in the Parlament. This number supposes an increase of the 12 percent in the accumulation of causes in comparison with 2004 (4,074 pending subjects). This accumulation is due to the increase in the number of subjects that joined the different courts, that they grew in almost 1,400 files with respect to the previous years and despite the increase in the number of solved denunciations, coding in something more than 600. Of the total number of 4,571 pending causes of resolution, 2,445 correspond to the courts of first instance, that take care of the civil subjects, and 2,126 to the instruction courts, that handle the penal causes. The global increase of pending cases is fundamentally due to the difficulty of the three only courts of first instance to give exit to the civil cases. Thus, of the 2,043 files without solving that there was at the end of 2004 it incresed to 2,445, almost a 20 percent more, in 2005. This difference is consequence of the 3,289 new investigations initiated during the year (a 13.89% more), in spite of the 2,895 cases that were resolute throughout 2005 (a 10% more than in 2004). The memory of the TSJB aims that "the creation of the fourth court to date of 30 of December of 2005 generates a reasonable horizon of correct progression towards the recovery of the pendencia". This is because, according to the scales that the memory gathers, each court would have to be able to solve an average of 720 subjects per year, with which the number of courts that would need to assume this accumulated service load is of 4.6, something more of those than Ibiza has now. In the case of the penal subjects transacted by the courts of Instruction, 2,126 files without solving at the end of 2005, 164 more were registered when finishing the preceding exercise, which supposes an increase of 3,15%. In their valuation, the TSJB recognizes a "slight resolving increase", when the cases of 25,557 subjects finalized in 2004 in the 25,896 of the last year. But in contrast, it emphasizes the increase of new causes. In order to explain this situation, to the increase in almost 1,000 new denunciations, until clearing the 25,900, the TSJB unites the "problematic peculiarity of the summer" of the courts of Ibiza, with a remarkable increase of the population and the delinquency in the months of summer, "not sufficiently palliated by the presence of attached judges". The president of the TSJB, Antoni Terrasa, offered these data yesterday after presenting the Memory of 2005 in the Parlament. The document gathers that the courts of Balears accumulated 56,939 pending subjects at the end of 2005, 412 cases more than in the previous year. The analysis made by the TSJB shows the contradiction between the high number of judges by inhabitant (10.45 by each 100,000 inhabitants) and the elevated rate of litigiosidad (amount of judicial subjects by each 10,000 inhabitants), that with 204 cases, surpasses in 95 points the state average. The memory also indicates that the courts display an average delay of a year and four months to solve the files, being this period of nine months for the courts of the Civilian, of four months for those of Social and the two months in the case of the penal causes.

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The airline companies, satisfied with the forecast with increase of flights to Ibiza

The president of the Spanish Association of Compañias Aereas (AECA), Felipe Navio, expressed yesterday a "great satisfaction" by the existing perspective of "significant growth" in the number of flights for this high season in Ibiza and the rest of Balears. Navio emphasized that this "additional flow" of flights shows the character of the archipelago of "destiny refuge", to which go the emitting markets when problems in other vacacionales locations exist. Also, the AECA president showed the "contained optimism" for the airline companies on the fulfillment of these forecasts, that have been reinforced by the commentaries showed by the professionals of the sector in recently celebrated ITB of Berlin. Navio exposed that the members of AECA create in the "freedom of market and the free competition", although all must fulfill the same norms.