This Wednesday, June 3, at 7:00 p.m., Casa Cupra Raval hosts a new session of Meetings with Journalists, an opportunity to get to know the current news up close with the professionals of the sector.
The Second Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has issued an order admitting the appearance of the former president of the Generalitat Carlos Mazón, current regional deputy, in the case concerning the management of the Dana being investigated in the Court of First Instance of Catarroja to exercise his right of defense.
Juan Antonio Samaranch said of the 1992 Olympic Games that they had managed to change the mentality of the people of Barcelona. “Now they are more optimistic, less whiny,” he defended, in an interview with La Vanguardia in March 1996. The social – almost Olympic – sport of overseeing each and every one of the 73 neighborhoods of Barcelona has not been lost, but if that summer achieved anything, everyone who made it possible agrees, it was to establish a confidence that never left. At the forefront of the metamorphosis, with permission from Maragall, was precisely the now deceased president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who passed away in 2010, a figure who was honored yesterday just in the year that marks 40 years since his “a la ville de… Barcelona.”
A fire declared this afternoon in the Murcian districts of Los Garres and Lages has triggered the Infomur Plan in emergency phase, at level two. At 3:10 p.m., 1-1-2 received more than 200 calls alerting about a tongue of fire on the mountainside, according to the Emergency Coordination Center.
Two women have died this Sunday after trying to pull a three-year-old boy out of the water who was drowning in the dam of the town of Baños de Cerrato, in the municipality of Venta de Baños.
The reading of the municipal register corresponding to January 1 of this year, just made public by the City Council, shows a Barcelona that is a collector of records. The municipality started this year by breaking many maximum population records. Not at a global level, as there is an almost imperceptible decrease of 0.1%, leaving the number of registered people at 1,729,963 (about 2,100 fewer residents than a year ago), but yes in various categories such as people born abroad and of non-Spanish nationality, Barcelonans who have surpassed a century of life, or the number of births, which in this case reaches a historic low: the 11,012 registered throughout 2025 represent the lowest value since 1900, with the only exception of 1939.
Shortly after the pandemic restrictions were lifted, the people in charge of the historic hat shop Mil de Barcelona shared on these pages that they were very worried because the lease contract for their store on Fontanella Street was nearing its end and, on top of that, dark clouds were looming everywhere. The fourth and fifth generations of these hatters were not sure their business could survive. On both sides, 24-hour supermarkets were opening at full speed. The family feared becoming part of the honorable list of iconic businesses that had disappeared due to the whirlwind of these times.
A homeless man was slightly injured on Sunday night after an individual tried to burn him with a lighter while he was sleeping on Entença street in Barcelona.
Union disunity worsens this Tuesday in Valencia with tensions over the salary agreement that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities reached yesterday with the CSIF and ANPE unions. STEPV, CCOO-PV, and UGT-PV, who did not sign the agreement yesterday, wanted to know if the review according to the CPI agreed for the last salary increase established in the agreement – 50 euros in 2028, after the 75 euros increase in July 2027 and the other 75 euros in January 2027 – and the regional Secretary of Education, Daniel McEvoy, clarified it right at the start of this afternoon’s new negotiating table meeting, making it clear that the 2028 CPI review will be made “on the total of the 200 euros and not on the last 50, thus attending to the request of the trade union organizations.” Now the non-signatories can choose between joining or denouncing the agreement.
The investigating judge in the dana case has ordered the president of the Diputació de València, Vicente Mompó, to be summoned again as a witness to be questioned regarding the statement made on Monday by the mayor of Torrent, Amparo Folgado, who told Judge Ruiz Tobarra that around 6 p.m. on October 29, 2024, she called Mompó, who was present at the Cecopi although not obliged to be there due to his position, to warn him that water was flowing down the l’Horteta ravine with an “extraordinary” flow level.