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Business over Tapas A digest of this week's Spanish financial, political and social news aimed primarily at Foreign Property Owners: Prepared by Lenox Napier.   Consultant: José Antonio Sierra For subscriptions and other information about this site, go to businessovertapas.com email:   lenox@businessovertapas.com *** Now with Facebook Page (Like!) *** Business over Tapas and its writers are not responsible for unauthorised copying or other improper use of this material. Subscription and e-mail information in our archives is never released to third parties.     January 1 2026             Nº 613           ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!       Editorial:   Gracious me, I’ve been writing editorials and content for Business over Tapas since January 2013. Some of them political, others useful, and then there were a few comic ones too. ...

From CBS News : What is Antifa ? ‘In the USA, the right-wing media blames antifa members for rioting and looting. Democrats have also condemned such violence, but many on the left say the rhetoric about antifa ( i.e. , anti-fascist) is greatly exaggerated, and that it's less of an organized movement than just something of "an idea." Swiss Info says : ‘ Antifa , designated by US President Donald Trump as a "domestic terrorist organization," is a diffuse "anti-fascist" movement of left-wing activists that experts say is more of a political ideology than an organized group…’ We read: ‘ Antifa , from the word anti-fascism, was already in use in Germany in the early 1930s, where "anti-fa" socialist groups tried to oppose the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazis…’  For some reason, perhaps to escape the obvious point that our fathers and grandfathers fought, precisely, against fascism in...

  Business over Tapas A digest of this week's Spanish financial, political and social news aimed primarily at Foreign Property Owners: Prepared by Lenox Napier.   Consultant: José Antonio Sierra For subscriptions and other information about this site, go to businessovertapas.com email:   lenox@businessovertapas.com *** Now with Facebook Page (Like!) *** Business over Tapas and its writers are not responsible for unauthorised copying or other improper use of this material. Subscription and e-mail information in our archives is never released to third parties.     December 18 2025             Nº 612            Christmas Edition     Editorial:   I’m writing this while sipping on a Marzipan brandy, a slightly peculiar cordial that comes in a tall and skinny bottle from the local Aldi supermarket. It makes me think of th...