The crisis in Ceuta reached yesterday Tuesday the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in a debate that focused on the community migration policy and the hybrid attacks of third countries. The Commissioner for Immigration and Home Affairs, Magnus Brunner, boasted about the results of strengthening the EU borders but acknowledged that “we must redouble our efforts.”
The widespread decline in property crimes in Catalonia, and particularly in the city of Barcelona, which in the absence of official data has been maintained during the summer months, does not hide the worrying evolution of some types of crimes, mostly linked to drug trafficking. This is evidenced by the data corresponding to the first half of this year, during which 68 shootings with live fire were recorded, 21 more than in the same period of 2025. An increase of 45%.
A worker has died and another has been injured this Tuesday while cleaning a septic tank located in the premises of the Central Market of Tarragona, according to sources familiar with the facts confirmed to La Vanguardia.
A matter of priorities. This is how emphatic Deputy Mayor Laia Bonet was when asked this Tuesday by the Vox municipal group about the state of the Columbus monument, at the lower part of La Rambla. The far-right bench came to the Mobility and Urban Planning commission with a request for the City Council to “immediately” tidy up the statue dedicated to the navigator. But no. There is a reform project that costs 6.3 million euros, the PSC councilor reported, but it is not planned to be undertaken in this term.
The possibility that artificial intelligence might escape human control has generated social concern, but also a debate influenced by significant business and political interests. Francesc Bracero, a journalist specialized in technology, acknowledged on Claves del día that “there are few topics in the world where so many people are right and so many people are wrong,” because the boundaries between real risks, alarmism, and commercial strategies are “very subtle and very slippery.” Piergiorgio Sandri, an Economics journalist, ruled out as an immediate scenario an AI ready to annihilate humanity and placed the danger in another area: “The concern should not be whether it will kill us, but to what extent and how much it will be able to manipulate us.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has made a small pause with the Ceuta crisis to also focus on other problems that worry Spaniards, such as housing. In this regard, the leader of the PP traveled this Tuesday along with José Luis Martínez-Almeida to visit a public housing development for rent in Madrid and recalled his commitments to ease prices if he comes to Government, which include, among other things, drastic tax cuts for young people and the construction of more supply.
Club Vanguardia offers this Tuesday an exclusive meeting for subscribers with Joana Bonet, director of La Vanguardia’s Magazine. The event, held this Tuesday, September 15 at 7 p.m. at CUPRA City Garage in Madrid, can be followed through this newspaper’s website.
Security cameras will be a key element in identifying the killer of the Spanish student Claudia Tacoronte Aguilera, who was stabbed in Mexico while she was on an exchange program in the country.
The Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis has been the author of an extraordinary discovery in the world of paleontology. Specifically, the researchers have found fossils of a sauropod dinosaur from the La Tejería site in the municipality of El Castellar. After the corresponding analysis, it has been possible to identify the remains as belonging to the genus Diplodocus.
The central and eastern Mediterranean region is awaiting a possible cyclone this week, which could be a medicane, a Mediterranean cyclone with certain characteristics similar to those of a tropical cyclone. The phenomenon will form and affect, above all, the northern Africa area, Sicily, and Malta. Likewise, the intensity and danger of this type of weather events could worsen in the coming years due to greater energy availability from the high sea temperatures, report the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet).
