Employers’ organizations have long warned that one of the main problems of the lack of competitiveness of the Spanish economy is the high level of work absenteeism. Pimec published a report last January focused on Catalonia that pointed out that sick leaves
Gabriel Rufián likes to provoke with his statements and he certainly succeeds because when he speaks in Congress he always attracts the attention of the members, who stop looking at their mobile phones to listen to him. His preferences in favor of tiktoks over the
In a normal country, the creation of a new body, the so-called Investment Consortium, would surely not be necessary to ensure that public works budgeted in a given year are actually carried out. But in Spain, this is not the case and there is a great
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The presence of plainclothes Mossos d’Esquadra in schools to offer help and provide knowledge in security and prevention can be a good initiative… if done well. It can never be considered as a
Pedro Sánchez has been dragged into making political decisions as head of government that he surely would never have adopted with an absolute majority. He has made concessions to nationalist parties and also to Podemos and Sumar. The PP is going down the same path in its relationship
Many years ago at a Sant Jordi party at the Alma hotel, Rodrigo Fresán told me about the plot of a book that had not been translated here. It was the story of a policeman who, in the last days before the end of the world, decides to continue doing his police work. It’s
The world is not for much joy. Perhaps the data that best exemplifies this is that psychiatric and mental health consultations have doubled in recent years. Words like depression, anxiety, or stress are much more common today than they were in the
Spain, Slovenia, and Ireland were left alone yesterday in their intention for the EU to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel. The other 24 countries did not see the demand clearly, especially Germany and Italy, which considered it inappropriate. Surely the high
With 24 hours left until the ceasefire agreed by Iran and the United States ends, the conflict is a real Dragon Khan because expectations are constantly changing. As of writing this article, there is more hope today than there was yesterday that the truce can
The idea of death is inseparable from Venice, a twilight city if ever there was one. Some surrendered to its decadence to the point of asking to be buried there when their time came, like Igor Stravinsky and his wife Vera, or the poet Joseph Brodsky. But the city