The administrative litigation court number 23 has halted the construction works of the mega cleaning depot in Montecarmelo that the Madrid City Council started in February, by granting the precautionary measures requested by the neighbors who have been fighting for almost three years against what they consider an “industrial mega-installation”.
FC Barcelona celebrated, on the night of this past Wednesday, their great season with a party at the Casanova Beach Club in Castelldefels. An event that brought together many people at the doors of the venue who wanted to greet the team’s footballers, the vast majority accompanied by their partners.
If the deadlines are met, in the second half of 2028 the apartments in the Benidorm skyscraper will begin to be occupied, which will then have become the tallest residential building in Europe, TM Tower, surpassing the Złota 44 tower in Warsaw. The largest group of clients for the luxurious apartments are precisely Polish, and most come from Eastern Europe, although it is a Spanish businessman who has acquired the penthouse located on the 63rd floor for 3.4 million euros, according to sources from TM, the company originally from Torrevieja that builds and markets this new giant that will dominate the characteristic Alicante skyline.
The double murder that occurred on Monday night in the El Canalillo neighborhood, in El Ejido (Almería), has taken a turn in just 48 hours. What was initially investigated as an episode of domestic violence within a family marked by marginalization and police records now points to a possible case of gender-based violence and vicarious violence.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured this Thursday that “everything points” to Israel deporting in the next few hours, via Turkey, the activists detained after the interception of the flotilla heading to Gaza with humanitarian aid. Among those arrested, there would be at least 44 Spaniards, although the Government admits that it still does not have an official final figure.
Comuns has given their approval to the Generalitat’s budget agreement for this year after reaching a pact with the Govern on an update to the agreement already reached in February, which highlights an additional investment of 2.5 billion euros in housing policies that are added to those already agreed upon then, 1.2 billion for the Pla de Barris, and a new law to convert empty offices and premises into official protected housing (HPO).
The war in Iran and the energy crisis resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are already being felt in the pockets of European citizens. The European Commission has lowered the economic forecasts for the eurozone this spring by three tenths, from 2.3% to 0.9% for this year, while inflation rises from 1.9% to 3% due to high fuel prices. This is something that the Economy Commissioner, Valdis Dombrovskis, had already been warning about: the risk of a “stagflation” scenario, with low growth and high inflation, with consumer prices through the roof.
The broker Víctor de Aldama has denied this Thursday before the judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno that neither Francina Armengol, current president of the Congress of Deputies, in her time as president of the Balearic Islands, nor anyone from her government asked for or received commissions for the contract that was awarded to her company, Soluciones de Gestión, for the acquisition of medical supplies during the pandemic.
The demonstration of intelligence that Verónica, a Swiss Brown cow specimen, showed in January made the scientific community reflect. Verónica became the first cow recorded using a tool: a stick that allowed her to reach parts of her body she could not scratch. Researchers from the National Institute for Agricultural Research, Food, and Environment of France observed the phenomenon and considered studying the memory of cows. Specifically, whether they could “discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces.”
Pedro Sánchez has requested a meeting with Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of her visit to Rome next week. The prime minister, according to La Vanguardia from sources within the Italian Government, has accepted the proposal for a meeting at the Palazzo Chigi, the seat of the Executive, but for the moment the schedules do not quite align. The contacts, these same sources explain, are ongoing.