Torrentontitos. Let the reader keep the big word, which is not mine but which I make my own. How accurate Josep Martí Blanch was when in La Vanguardia he portrayed the idiots (sic) who chanted that “jump, jump, jump, Muslim who doesn’t jump” that dull Tuesday of
TV schedules in the United States were interrupted once again by news on the gun epidemic front, that disease so characteristic of this country. At a time of high sensitivity, this time the tragedy occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest in this city in southern California, with 1.4 million residents.
At eight in the evening, in a multi-purpose space of the Federació d’Entitats Calàbria 66 in Barcelona, about fifty men meet every Wednesday to sing. In recent months, they have been preparing Shampoo, a musical with which the Barcelona Gay Men’s Chorus occupied the stage of the Teatre Condal until June 21. In the room, accents from half a dozen countries resonate, a pair of singers rehearses an acrobatic figure à la Dirty Dancing next to a man with a plastered arm who didn’t want to miss the rehearsal.
The sectoral table between the Departament de Educació and the unions this Thursday ended without an agreement and with the departure of CGT until the Govern has studied the pay proposal of the strike organizers, while Ustec confirmed that it will attend tomorrow’s meeting.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that almost everything happens in Mallorca. Because, as photographer Ricardo Labougle observes, the largest of the Balearic Islands “is almost like a continent.” The truth is that the island has mountains that are covered in snow in winter and turquoise water beaches that are nothing to envy those of the Caribbean. In addition to cliffs, bays, capes, valleys, plains, tiny villages, and cities as splendid as Palma. But above all, Mallorca, as Labougle points out, “possesses an exceptional cultural richness, the fruit of a legacy of centuries of invasions and different inhabitants. It has always been the richest and most important of the archipelago and its architectural identity is a world apart: Palma, dominated by its great Gothic cathedral. The feudal ‘possessions’. The monasteries, such as Valldemossa and Lluc. The gardens… The feeling is that the entire Mediterranean has passed through there,” explains the photographer in a telephone conversation with the Magazine.
After two years of intense national debate, the deeply divided French National Assembly approved this Wednesday, by 291 votes in favor and 241 against, the bill on “the right to assistance in dying.” The decriminalization, under strict conditions and protocols, of assisted suicide and euthanasia – words that the legislative text avoids naming – has had the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who has urged the Government to accelerate the process.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) endorses the amnesty law by considering that it does not affect European interests nor is it contrary to the European directive on terrorism. This was announced in the reading of the ruling of a judgment that comes a year and a half after the Court of Auditors and the National Court submitted the preliminary questions to the court based in Luxembourg.
The business sectors that pay their workers less than 27,500 euros per year, such as tourism, the meat industries, or home delivery services, “have impoverished” the whole Catalan society. This provocative idea is one of those that arise from the Fènix Report prepared by a group of seven Catalan economists who try to elucidate the reasons and consequences of low productivity.
One day after teachers rejected the educational pre-agreement in Catalonia, minister Esther Niubó was emphatic about the state of the conversations: “The negotiation is over,” Niubó declared in an interview on the program El món a Rac1. The minister acknowledged that the teachers’ rejection of the agreement, which will provide more resources to schools and entail a salary improvement for teachers, shows that “an entrenched discomfort has emerged.” However, she insisted that with the agreed improvements, “it is not a problem of resources.”
“Were they killing her with tequilas?”. The first control session in the Assembly of Madrid after Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s eventful institutional trip to Mexico has resulted this Thursday in a cascade of ironies from the opposition about the supposed “extreme risk” that, according to the Madrid president, she faced during her stay in the Latin American country. The plenary thus staged the clash between an Ayuso determined to denounce an alleged political boycott orchestrated from La Moncloa and a left that has ridiculed a narrative it considers exaggerated, victimizing, and full of accusations without evidence.