The defense of former president Carles Puigdemont made a move this Tuesday and filed a complaint against Spain before the European Commission in response to the Court of Auditors’ refusal to apply the Amnesty Law from the outset, a gesture that, in their opinion, contravenes the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Predictive markets are experiencing a great boom. Platforms like Polymarket or Kalshi have gained enormous popularity and are increasingly occupying more space in public conversation and in the media. A growth that has also caught the attention of regulators and lawmakers around the world.
Laura Autonell (Taradell, 1963) had been writing all her life, like many people, without many pretensions. But six years ago her husband passed away and her priorities changed: “The hours I would have spent with him I have dedicated to writing, I have filled his absence with stories. It’s as if I had remarried, but to literature,” she says, because from that loss first came a self-published novel, Un polsim de sal, and recently a novel that in a few weeks has established itself among the bestsellers thanks to word of mouth, La Llibreria de les Hores Mortes (Columna), alongside authors like Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, Gil Pratsobrerroca, Siri Hustvedt or even Homer himself with the new Catalan translation of his Odyssey.
The Spanish population is subjected to extensive exposure to pesticides through food. 46% of the foods analyzed in the official program contain residues of at least one pesticide, a percentage that reaches 69.5% in the case of fruits and 38% in vegetables.
The Vatican flag has been flying since Thursday in Brians 1, the penitentiary center of Sant Esteve Sesrovires that will receive Leo XIV on Wednesday, becoming the first Pope to visit a Spanish prison. A brigade of bricklayers works tirelessly tidying up the auditorium that will host the Pontiff’s meeting with eighty inmates and twenty prison officials. The walls are immaculately white and smell of fresh paint.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, accompanied singer Bad Bunny this Sunday at the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, with whom he immortalized the moment with a selfie photo that the head of the Government has published on his official Instagram account.
Christian had been called Antonio for 20 years. Specifically, Antonio Iovanovic. He obtained a Croatian passport and made up that his family had died in the Balkan war to avoid giving explanations every time someone asked him about his origins.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested two people responsible for the private nursery Patufet, located on carrer Sant Magí in Vilassar de Mar (Maresme), as part of an investigation opened for alleged crimes linked to the educational center and related to supposed mistreatment, according to a former employee’s complaint. The arrests took place this Friday.
Days ago, in a talk about city and tourism at the CCCB, the issue of the Sagrada Família arose and the long shadow it is beginning to cast over Barcelona. The room where the event was held is known as the Mirador, located on the highest part of the complex,
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has appealed the indictment of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, agreed by Judge Juan Carlos Peinado. The investigating judge brought her, her advisor Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés to the brink of the defendant’s bench, for the crimes of influence peddling, corruption in private sector business, misappropriation, and embezzlement of public funds.