The countdown begins for the elections in Andalusia on the upcoming May 17. This Friday, May 1, the electoral campaign opens, which for two weeks will serve the Andalusians to determine in whom they place their trust.
Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, confirmed this Thursday that Iran will play in the World Cup to be held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico next summer.
When the European members of NATO decided not to come to Donald Trump’s rescue when he asked for help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the president said it no longer mattered, that the United States did not depend on the oil coming from the Gulf and that its blockade by Iran would have no consequences in Washington. “I have a suggestion for you: buy it from the U.S., we have plenty, and arm yourselves with the courage you lack, go to the strait and simply take the oil,” he urged the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and other European allies.
The Tuesday session in the Congress of Deputies, in which Junts overturned both the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium that ERC agreed with PSC, is still ongoing. It has led to a confrontation between republicans and post-convergence members that in some cases becomes personal, especially after the intervention of the Esquerra spokesperson, Gabriel Rufián, who named the seven JxCat deputies from the speaker’s platform and called for a review of their asset declarations on the institution’s website profile, implying that they had personal and economic interests in overturning the decree.
The workers’ assembly at the Pascual plant in Gurb has decided to call a strike on May 11 in response to what they consider a lack of dialogue from management. The workers denounce that the company has been refusing for months to open a collective bargaining process, while still failing to clarify how the planned closure for July will be carried out.
Sanoma, a Finnish group in education and media, has acquired the historic publishing house Vicens Vives. The transaction had been in the works for months due to the delicate situation faced by the family business, which for decades has been a benchmark in the Catalan educational world. According to a statement to the Helsinki Stock Exchange, the operation is valued at around 40 million euros and takes into account the value of the net debt, which would be close to 30 million euros, market sources indicate.
The National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) has lost its private sponsors, as reported by El País and confirmed by La Vanguardia after consulting all parties. The departures announced today of the BBVA Foundation and the Cris Against Cancer Foundation add to that of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), which occurred on March 9 and was already known. The exit of the private institutions is motivated by the reputational damage that has affected the oncology research center, after the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office opened proceedings last December regarding an alleged scheme that may have diverted up to 25 million euros from budgets over 18 years through the alleged rigging of contracts, and also due to the recent resignation of the manager, José Manuel Bernabé, accused of harassment.
The Comuns MEP Jaume Asens has been discharged from the hospital after receiving a kidney from his mother in a successful transplant operation, as he himself explained on the social network Instagram.
The PSC brought to debate this Thursday a motion in the Parliament in which they condemn the Islamophobic and xenophobic chants that occurred in the Spain-Egypt match on March 31 at the RCDE Stadium. One of the regrettable messages heard was “muslim who doesn’t jump,” a chant that Vox has defended from the Catalan Chamber’s podium. The ultra party deputy, Alberto Tarradas, asked “what is wrong with this phrase that comes from the spontaneity and joy of the people.” And he did not stop there. Tarradas pronounced this expression and added that he did not jump to “maintain a certain decorum,” but that his entire group “jumps.”
The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imaz, has accused the market and competition regulator, CNMC, of “not doing its job” when it comes to identifying those responsible for the blackout that Spain suffered on April 28, 2025. “The regulator has chosen to spread confusion and open investigations into all companies for situations that are not even related to what happened with the blackout, and the only thing that has done is create confusion,” he said during the conference with analysts that the executive held this Thursday to present the company’s first-quarter results.