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Today in Switzerland: A Roundup of the Latest News on Monday
On Saturday, Spanish authorities on the Canary Island of El Hierro declared an emergency after a surge in migrant boat arrivals, with Alpidio Armas, head of the governing council, calling for cooperation with higher-level institutions.
Since the start of November, more than 3,300 people have arrived on the island aboard around 30 boats, leaving local officials seeking temporary accommodation while conditions at the hospital have become what Armas described as "undesirable."
Concurrently, Spain's State Weather Agency Aemet issued orange and yellow alerts this Monday for Andalusia and Extremadura due to Storm Bruna, with rainfall potentially exceeding 100 millimeters in areas south of the Central System.
A general strike called for Wednesday, November 11th, has divided the nation, with 53 percent of respondents disapproving of encampments in Madrid protesting the housing crisis, according to polling data.
Beyond these immediate crises, Spain ranks as the European Union's top regulation breaker, having failed to transpose 5.5 percent of required rules into national law, resulting in multiple sanctions from the Court of Justice of the European Union.
November has already brought record electricity prices. Today, the average price is over 4 kronor in southern Sweden. “It will get worse before it gets better,” analyst Johan Sigvardsson tells TT.