09/09/2024

Meetings

Next AFPO Meeting

October 2024

Last Meetings

AGM: Tuesday 18th June 2024

This meeting took place in the Club de Tenis, Calpe

The speaker was Carole Saunders, AFPO President

The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.

General Meeting: Tuesday 13th February, 2024

This meeting took place in the Diamante Beach hotel.

The guest speaker was Pamela Twissell-Cross MBE, the Welfare co-ordinator for the Royal British Legion

The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.

General Meeting: 3rd October 2023

Also in the Diamante Beach hotel.

The speakers were from CaixaBank, explaining their Proteccíon Senior facility.

There was considerable discussion of the new laws concerning animals and inheritance taxes.

The full minutes of this meeting can be read in our members’ area.

UK Embassy

May 2024 update

The British Embassy has said that the old green certificate, though still a valid residency document in Spain, may not guarantee exemption from the EU's Entry Exit system

On our key information page, we set out the guidance given last month by the Embassy.

This remains valid. The old green cerificate is protected by law inside Spain. But the EU's Entry Exit system, which will come into force later this year, requires travellers to provide biometric information which can only be found on the new plastic TIE card.

So if you are planning to travel in and out of Spain, switching to the new card is stronlgly recommended. It will save you having to re-register your details every time you travel.

Calpe elections (2023)

New Council (to 2027)

The new Calpe Council has now voted. For the next 4 years (in principle) Calpe will be run by a coalition of 3 parties, and Ana Sala, the current mayor, will continue in post.

The party with the most individual votes, the Partido Poplular, who wanted to force Ana Sala out, have instead been forced into opposition.

Up-to-the-minute news, togther with detailed analysis of the results of the elections (held on the 28th of May) can be found in our members’ area.

From the members’ area

In this section, we provide extracts from the announcements, news items and updates which our former President, Keith Wildman, publishes every day. To read the complete posts, you need to join the Association.

Announcements

Line closure again

(Notice posted: Saturday, 7th September 2024)

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) will offer from Monday, September 9th, a substitute bus service between the stations of Altea and Calpe of Line 9 of the Benidorm-Dénia TRAM, as a result of the works in execution of the new viaducts of Algar and Mascarat. From the start of the service, the alternative bus […]

Exhibition “Coast” by Erin de Burca at the Casa de Cultura de Calpe

(Notice posted: Thursday, 5th September 2024)

The Casa de Cultura de Calpe will host the painting exhibition “Coast”, by the artist Erin de Burca, from September the 6th to the 30th. The inauguration is scheduled for Friday, September 6th at 7:30 p.m. This artistic exhibition, presents a series of works that explore the relationship between human beings and nature, reflecting the […]

Letter from the ambassador

(Notice posted: Wednesday, 28th August 2024)

I am writing to you to ask for your help in spreading an important message to British people living in Spain who are aged over 80 and receiving a UK state pension. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) sent out a letter on 7th January 2024 to check that over-80s of any nationality who […]

News items

Stationery stores, a business in extinction

Sunday, 8th September 2024

In the last decade, the Valencian Community has lost up to 40% of these premises The drop in sales comes after the rise of second-hand platforms and book purchases directly from the distributor Monday begins for the youngest members of the family the return to school in the Valencian Community. One Return to the classroom – always […]

Firefighters’ checkpoints reduce nearly 200 fires declared this summer in the province

Sunday, 8th September 2024

This system will be operational until September The operation had an extraordinary investment of 900,000 euros Summer checkpoints reduce almost 200 fires in the province The rapid and effective intervention of the fixed and itinerant checkpoints of the firemen of the Alicante Provincial Council has made it possible this summer to reduce the severity and scope of nearly 200 fires declared in […]

Measures to stop the “massive death” of pine trees and vegetation in the Marina Alta

Sunday, 8th September 2024

In a motion endorsed by the technicians, Compromís proposes the use of drones and satellite images, the intervention of Valencian universities, phytosanitary treatments against pests or repopulation with native species The proposal, made by the Valencian group of Teulada Moraira and extendable to the entire region, warns that the accumulation of dead trees triggers the […]

“The mayor of Calpe punishes the residents with one of the most brutal tax increases in the history of our municipality”

Sunday, 8th September 2024

The Popular Party of Calpe has issued a harsh statement in which it denounces the recent tax increase approved by the tripartite government team (Somos Calpe, PSOE and Compromís). According to the popular formation, this measure directly affects the families of the municipality, who will have to assume an increase in the garbage rate that amounts […]

Defendamos Calpe denounces errors in the calculation of the new waste collection rate

Sunday, 8th September 2024

Paco Quiles, spokesman for the Municipal Group Defendamos Calpe The Municipal Group Defendamos Calpe has warned about the existence of several significant errors in the calculation of the new waste collection rate. As they have pointed out, the errors come from the formulas used in the Excel tables that the government team used to determine the quotas, which […]