The singer Shakira has achieved an important legal victory against the Spanish Tax Agency after more than eight years of legal battle. The National Court has ruled in favor of the artist and has ordered the refund of 60 million euros, in addition to the generated interest and the costs of the procedure. This closes one of the most high-profile tax cases of recent years.
Shakira has won her latest battle against the Tax Agency after eight years of litigation. The National Court has ruled in her favor in the case opened regarding the 2011 fiscal year and orders the Tax Agency to return 60 million euros to her. The Tax Agency considered that the Colombian artist had spent the legally required time in Spain —183 days—, which obligated her to pay taxes on her earnings in the country.
The National Day of Norway has left a bittersweet image this year for the royal family. While the traditional May 17 celebrations were taking place in Oslo, Princess Ingrid Alexandra commemorated the date more than 15,000 kilometers from home, from Australia, where she is currently pursuing her university studies. Her message from Sydney, broadcast by the Norwegian Royal House, quickly became one of the most talked-about moments of the day.
A dozen new potential victims of the American financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have come forward to the French justice system, which has not yet taken their testimony, explained Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau on Sunday.
The Eurovision Festival, a great musical and television show celebrating its 70th anniversary amid a crisis due to the absence of five countries in protest of Israel’s participation, holds the final this Saturday at 9 p.m., which RTVE will not broadcast in line with its decision not to participate. The first festival without Spain in decades takes place in Vienna, the host city, with the normality that the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) strives to maintain.
A protest concert against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Festival, and a rejection of the music contest itself for “becoming part of a propaganda apparatus that normalizes genocide,” gathered several dozen people this Friday in the center of Vienna.
The league has ended. Well, almost. With Barça crowned champions at home against a directionless Real Madrid, the victorious footballers have not only celebrated it in style with the parade that paralyzed Barcelona. It is spring, the work is done, and youth is brimming with oxytocin, that love hormone that seems to have once again revolutionized Lamine Yamal. And just like the gossip press, as well as the sports press, feeds on rumors, everything indicates that the Barça star has fallen in love again. This time, with the Sevillian influencer Inés García. But unlike what happened with the forward’s other summer love with Nicki Nicole, he would have preferred to keep this new relationship secret.
Gabriel García Márquez said that in life “one must be unfaithful, but never disloyal.” And precisely around that supposed disloyalty revolve the reasons that hover over the episode that, a year ago now, turned Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron into involuntary protagonists of one of the most talked-about scenes in international politics, following a controversial slap that the French first lady gave to the president, and also husband, during an official trip to Vietnam.
El paseo Joan de Borbó has a double life. On one side, La Barceloneta: that fishermen’s neighborhood transformed into a tourist attraction that, however, retains its usual rhythm, with real residents. On the other, the port; Marina Port Vell, one of the most important marinas in the Mediterranean, specialized in large yachts where fifty meters is the minimum to fit in.
The concern for Bonnie Tyler’s health has grown in recent hours following the publication of a statement on her website announcing her hospitalization. The renowned British singer was transferred to the healthcare center in Faro, Portugal, where she currently resides, to undergo emergency intestinal surgery after suffering an intestinal perforation.
