Minimum vital income and foreign tourism from July in Spain

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(CNN Spanish) - "Starting in July, the entry of foreign tourism into Spain in safe conditions will resume," said the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez. He said that foreign tourists can plan their holidays in Spain, "we will guarantee that they will not run risks nor will they bring them".

The Spanish government intends to reopen the borders to a sector that last year moved eighty million visitors. Sánchez explained that Spanish tourism will now have two new seals, "environmental sustainability and health security".

Sánchez also encouraged Spanish citizens to carry out national tourism once free movement resumes. In this sense, Sánchez invited tourist establishments to "prepare from today to resume their activity in a few days."

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The President of the Spanish government announced that next week the minimum vital income will be approved in the Council of Ministers. "It will be a regular and permanent benefit to reduce poverty in the country. Its annual cost will be around more than US $ 3 billion and will benefit nearly 850,000 households. "

Aid whose amount will vary, according to Sánchez, depending on the “number of members in each household and the income they generate. This aid will begin to be collected from next July ”.

Lastly, Sánchez announced that starting next Tuesday, May 26, when the entire territory is in Phase 1 and 2 of the de-escalation, the government will approve the formal declaration of official mourning for the deceased that this epidemic has claimed. . "A mourning that will last ten days, the longest in our democratic history."

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