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The local Foreign Ministry prepared a new plan to end FM no later than 2021, or sooner if listening figures for digital radio reach 50%.

Despite the absence of electronically-adjusted heated leather seats, it still has 17in alloys, LED headlights, a 10in touchscreen infotainment system with DAB radio, cruise control, a reversing camera and a reasonable array of active safety systems.

All the functions are included, starting from classic radio via FM, digital radio via DAB+, internet radio stations, Bluetooth, Spotify Connect and an alarm function.

With an amendment to article 89 of the stability law 2018, the Government established that from 1 June 2019 it will no longer be possible to import receivers that do not have a DAB radio signal decoder chip, while starting from 1 January 2020 all radios that will be deprived will no longer be marketed. There will then be a period of coexistence and sellers will have 6 months available to dispose of old products.

Spokesperson for Spain's Compromis Party Carles Mulet has called for the country's government to pursue a digital agenda, aimed at the digitisation of radio in Spain. He cited the examples of Norway, Switzerland, France and the UK and their governments pursuing a process to increase DAB services as what Spain should follow.

The government of Denmark wants to disable analogue broadcasting via the FM system by 2021 at the latest, announced this week as part of a process to accelerate the digitisation of radio.

For some time the rule was that FM in Denmark takes place no later than two years after the share of digital radio listening has reached 50%. Now the Danish government has decided to set a hard closing date at 2021. Currently, the share of digital listening is 38%.

94 per cent of French people see radio as a universal right, according to a study commissioned by SIRTI. 68% of the French state that they would listen to FM or DAB + via the smartphone, if this is made technically possible.

All Volkswagen T-Roc SUVs boast a high level of standard equipment, including an infotainment system with an eight-inch colour touchscreen, CD player, DAB radio and the ability to simultaneously pair two compatible mobile devices via Bluetooth.

A new DAB station called Jack 3 was launched in Oxford last Friday on the UK's second largest digital radio multiplex Sound Digital.