Madrid es Noticia: El paro baja en Madrid en 57.300 personas en 2025

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Unemployment in Madrid dropped by 57,300 people in 2025, nearing the region's goal of full employment.

1. Radio Madrid's 'Es Noticia' midday program covers the Q4 2025 unemployment figures for Madrid alongside sharp clashes at the Madrid City Council plenary and the central government's immigrant regularization announcement. 2. Host Gonzalo Heredero is joined by reporters Paloma Cuevas, Jesús Sánchez, Lucia Guadalupe, and Sara de Cerro for the various story threads; Economy Secretary Rocío Albert is the main policy voice. 3. The episode centers on three simultaneous political flashpoints: Madrid's labour market record, the Adamuz railway accountability debate, and the central government's mass immigrant regularization. 4. Rocío Albert, Madrid's Economy and Finance Secretary, reported that unemployment in the region fell by 57,300 people in 2025, a decrease of 17.4% year-on-year, bringing the rate to 7.04%. 5. Albert noted this is the lowest fourth-quarter unemployment rate in Madrid since 2007, and that the region is now 2.9 percentage points below the national average. 6. She highlighted that the activity rate stands at 63%, the highest in Spain, and that 88.6% of contracts in the region are indefinite — figures she used to argue Madrid is close to full employment despite 271,000 people still being out of work. 7. The Confederation of Madrid Businesses (CEIM) endorsed the data, calling Madrid the 'economic engine of Spain,' but its labour director Luis Méndez also noted Spain still has the highest unemployment rate in the EU overall. 8. The central government approved a Council of Ministers agreement with Podemos that could regularize up to 840,000 undocumented immigrants; Madrid's Social Affairs Minister Ana Dávila called it a 'distraction' from the Adamuz fallout. 9. Dávila accused the Sánchez government of acting 'behind the back of regional governments and the Congress,' transferring people 'silently like packages,' and of complying with Podemos rather than the Supreme Court's order to process 40-day-overdue asylum applications from minors. 10. Más Madrid spokesperson Manuela Bergerot defended the regularization as a 'repair' for 500,000 people living administratively underground, saying it would allow them to 'develop their life projects with rights' rather than being exploited. 11. PP secretary general Alfonso Serrano praised Ayuso's 0.5-point IRPF cut, saying it would benefit 3 million people and save the average contributor 635 euros compared to a Catalan taxpayer and 555 euros compared to a Castilla-La Mancha taxpayer. 12. Serrano also continued calling for Transport Minister Puente's dismissal, saying it was 'clear lying' for the minister to give contradictory accounts of the Adamuz derailment and noting even members of the investigation commission had questioned him. 13. At the City Council plenary, PSOE spokesperson Reyes Maroto cited the central government's 12,500 million euro transfers to the Madrid city council since Almeida became mayor as evidence of government investment. 14. Almeida responded by pivoting to Cercanías commuter rail, accusing the government of cutting 43% of the maintenance budget and calling the last two Transport ministers a 'brothel keeper' and a 'tweeter' respectively — one of the sharper plenary exchanges of the year. 15. Más Madrid's Rita Maestre, returning after six months of maternity leave, accused the PP of being 'thieves,' while Almeida countered that the 'great vulture fund' is actually the central government for agreeing to a financing deal that disproportionately benefits Catalonia. 16. In a notable procedural stumble, the PP accidentally voted against a Vox proposal to support a democratic transition in Venezuela; the error was corrected in the next item by councillor Borja Caravantes, who apologized and reaffirmed PP's solidarity with the Venezuelan people. 17. The Madrid City Council also passed a unanimous institutional declaration — signed by PP, Más Madrid, PSOE, and Vox — condemning Iran's crackdown on civilian protests and specifically praising the courage of Iranian women. 18. The program uses a fast-paced radio news format with direct soundbites from politicians, short reporter summaries, and regular traffic and weather updates from correspondents. 19. Listeners following Madrid's labour market performance, the Adamuz political fallout, or heated Madrid City Council plenary sessions will find specific and detailed coverage here. 20. Those uninterested in regional Spanish politics or who want analytical rather than news-format coverage will find limited value in this episode.

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