While in Spain we are anxiously playing on the edge with democracy, Pope Leo XIV has identified the great flaw on which the democracies of the 21st century, including the Spanish one, are based: guaranteeing life projects through work and the social question, a…
It seems like yesterday when Pep Guardiola began to build the perfect football clock, a work of unparalleled precision that has transformed the game like never before. Yes, he had a rich background as a player and boundless curiosity, driven by his passionate character and the…
Almost 24 hours after Israeli soldiers detained 175 participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were heading with humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, near the Greek island of Crete – more than 1000 kilometers from the Israeli coast – Israel and the Greek government confirmed a change of plans. The activists will not be transferred to Israel, as their government had stated shortly after intercepting 21 of the 58 ships that made up the flotilla on Wednesday night, but will disembark on a “Greek beach,” wrote Israel’s Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa’ar, last night.
The Barcelona City Council is developing a new strategy to stop the group dedicated to the most active illegal tourist accommodation in the city. The idea is to obtain prison sentences against those responsible. They are the Peruvian Swedes, the kings of clandestine boarding houses. This scheme basically rents large apartments to divide them into rooms and sublet them through platforms in a systematic way until the owners manage to evict them. For some time now, their supposed leaders have not been so calm.
The combination of a rainy spring and the onset of heat has caused mosquito and cockroach populations to soar across much of the territory. This is warned by the Catalan Association of Environmental Health Companies (Adepap) on the occasion of World Pest Control Day, which will be celebrated next Saturday. The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a confirmed vector of diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, remains the main threat in urban areas due to its ability to breed in small domestic water accumulations. Adepap also warns about the invasion of cockroaches in the underground and homes.
The operational central unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went this Wednesday early in the morning to the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz street in Madrid, to request documentation within the framework of the investigation into the so-called Leire case, according to police sources confirmed to La Vanguardia.
The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, announced this Sunday that the fire declared on August 6 in the Raboconejo area of Niebla (Huelva) has been declared stabilized. The announcement of the Infoca Plan was made at 10:30 a.m. this Sunday, after nine days of work, the forest fire declared on the 6th in Niebla (Huelva) which has spread over more than 38,000 hectares across eleven municipalities.
As expected, Mariano Rajoy has denied the main accusations made by former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas about his knowledge of an illegal slush fund within the party or about a supposed operation orchestrated by the Popular Party, the Government, or the Police to steal data that could criminally affect him. In fact, for the former president of the government, there was no illegal operation.
Cycling, always outdoors and at the mercy of the sky and whatever happens with the weather, had to yield to the harsh meteorological conditions, with thunderstorms and hail, which forced the cancellation of the third stage of the Vuelta a España.
The European Commission continues to take action to tackle the housing crisis in the European continent. In addition to proposing a legal framework to protect public administrations that want to limit temporary tourist rentals and second homes, Brussels accompanies this regulation with a series of non-binding recommendations to member states when fighting against this problem that affects a large part of the cities in the bloc and to increase supply in areas under residential pressure.