The slow digestion of the Amnesty law has received a European tonic this week, an herbal liqueur from Luxembourg. An unequivocal ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has endorsed the law approved by the Congress of Deputies on May 20, 2024, and sealed by the Spanish Constitutional Court on June 26, 2025.
He did it in the Club World Cup final and wanted to do it again in the World Cup final. The US president, Donald Trump, could not be the protagonist in the champions’ photo of the Spanish national team, after Manchester City midfielder and La Roja captain Rodri Hernández prevented the North American leader from standing in front of the champion squad during the trophy presentation.
UEFA maintains its boycott of competitions organized by FIFA despite Gianni Infantino’s withdrawal of his plan to privatize part of the World Cup rights. “The conditions to lift our boycott are not met. We have lost confidence in the FIFA president,” stated the governing body of European football in a statement. According to UEFA, in its position last week, they demanded two things. The first, the withdrawal of the plan. And, the second, that conditions be established so that a similar project could never be proposed again. “This second issue has not been fulfilled,” UEFA says. The organization chaired by Aleksander Ceferin does not believe in the unity front that Infantino wants to recover and has challenged him with the aim that the FIFA president does not remain in office.
ACS has undertaken an accelerated placement of shares in the market to raise around 1.8 billion euros to finance its growth, with the two main shareholders, Florentino Pérez and Criteria, contributing resources.
If the writer Dan Brown were to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) again, the setting of one of the passages in his novel Origin, where he invented the existence of a quantum computer one floor above the chapel of the Torre Girona – which housed the first four versions of the MareNostrum supercomputer – he would be surprised to see that they have taken his idea seriously. On Thursday, the third quantum computer of the facilities was inaugurated. All created by a Barcelona startup, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, led by Marta Estarellas.
The UDEF agents who entered the official office of former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero last Tuesday seized numerous documents, which are currently being analyzed by the investigators. As stated in the case file accessed by La Vanguardia, the agents seized more than twenty folders, another twenty agendas, and several hard drives.
The imminence of the agreement with Iran, which Donald Trump declared practically done last Saturday, has been fading due to his excessive haste in the face of the economic punishment the United States is suffering because of a war he declared. Furthermore, the president is being criticized by Republican officials for accepting a pact they dislike given the survival of the ayatollahs’ regime.
At the advanced command post in Turre, located just a few kilometers from the serious fire that has been threatening the municipality of Los Gallardos and nearby towns since last Thursday, the atmosphere yesterday was somewhat different. This was confirmed around 11 a.m. when the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno Bonilla, announced that the fire had finally been declared stabilized, so it was downgraded to “operational situation 1” and the gradual return of the thousand people who had been evacuated was authorized. The negative note of the day came at night, when the death of a 93-year-old British woman who was hospitalized at the Torrecárdenas Hospital was confirmed, bringing the death toll to 13. In addition, seven other people remain hospitalized.
The Government has approved in its first Council of Ministers after the summer break two draft bills to reform the Spanish system of immigration and asylum and adapt it to the new European Pact on Migration and Asylum. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, presented both initiatives at the subsequent press conference as an attempt to combine an “agile, effective, and orderly” management of migratory flows with the maintenance of guarantees for migrants. The reform, he added, will also allow speeding up the processing of international protection applications and improving “the necessary management of our borders to guarantee security in our country.”
The President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Isabel Perelló, has not delayed in responding to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, regarding his complaints against the judge of the National Court María Tardón for her investigations into the migration crisis in Ceuta. She has asked that the “utmost respect” be given to the decisions made by the investigating judge, who has requested several judicial reports before deciding whether to initiate a formal investigation.