UEFA's challenge to FIFA: agrees to boycott the World Cup if Infantino continues with his plan

UEFA’s challenge to FIFA: agrees to boycott the World Cup if Infantino continues with his plan

“UEFA and its federations will not participate in competitions organized by FIFA. We unanimously and unequivocally reject the plan to transfer the rights of the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.” UEFA and its 55 associations made this strong decision this afternoon in a telematic meeting. A real challenge to try to stop the plans of FIFA president Gianni Infantino to privatize part of FIFA by creating a corporate subsidiary to commercialize its competitions. From the very beginning, UEFA has opposed the plan and describes it as “crossing a red line.”

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The State accumulates an investment deficit executed in Catalonia of 13 billion since 2009

The State accumulates an investment deficit executed in Catalonia of 13 billion since 2009

Catalonia has been carrying a deficit in the execution of state investment of almost 13 billion euros since 2009, a burden that, according to the construction sector, explains much of the accumulated delay in infrastructure. The Cambra de Contractistes d’Obres de Catalunya (CCOC) warns that the State only executed 57.4% of the budgeted investments last year, while calling for doubling the volume of public works to recover lost ground.

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The Ombudswoman opens ex officio proceedings to clarify the impact of PISA in Catalonia

The Ombudswoman opens ex officio proceedings to clarify the impact of PISA in Catalonia

The Ombudswoman of Greuges, Esther Giménez-Salinas, has initiated an ex officio action following the incidents detected in the PISA 2025 tests in Catalonia. She considers it essential to clarify these incidents, which have led the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to assess that the results obtained are neither representative nor comparable with those of other territories or previous editions.

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Fátima, Nabil, Hanna... the dreams of young people who set out to sea to reach Spain

Fátima, Nabil, Hanna… the dreams of young people who set out to sea to reach Spain

At 25 years old, Fátima has made twenty attempts to swim from Fnideq (Castillejos, northern Morocco) to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. “I don’t care about the risk, I will return,” she says. Like her, hundreds of young people are taking to the sea without Moroccan security preventing it in the largest migration crisis since 2021, about which Rabat maintains a striking silence.

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The Government mobilizes the Army to reinforce security in response to the influx of immigrants in Ceuta

The Government mobilizes the Army to reinforce security in response to the influx of immigrants in Ceuta

Pedro Sánchez has guaranteed that he will mobilize “all necessary resources” to provide an “immediate response” to the new migratory crisis unleashed in Ceuta, as demanded by the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the first consequence is that the Government announced this afternoon that it will deploy the Army to face the serious situation, after a flood of thousands of people crossed the border from Morocco into Spain.

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The Government highlights Morocco's cooperation to stop the arrival of more migrants in Ceuta

The Government highlights Morocco’s cooperation to stop the arrival of more migrants in Ceuta

The new migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta, for which the president of this autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, raised the alarm this Thursday, has immediately turned many eyes towards the authorities of Morocco, after Pedro Sánchez restored political and commercial relations with Algeria last week with his visit to President Abdelmayid Tebun, which marked the end of the 2022 diplomatic clash following the Spanish leader’s shift on the Western Sahara issue.

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