The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Carmen Ortí, has asked the educational unions to return to the negotiating table and has called them to a new meeting this Thursday at 9 a.m., with the aim of moving towards an agreement for the entire Valencian educational system.
Benefited from one of the typical electoral snowballs of politics in times of social networks and ideological polarization, the hard-right candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, won the first round of the Colombian elections held on Sunday. Gustavo Petro, the incumbent president, has cast doubts on the result and assures that he will not accept it until it is officially confirmed by the judges overseeing the process.
When in February 2022 Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, whose very right to exist he denied, he could not have imagined that four and a half years later soldiers and pilots from Kyiv would parade in Paris as heroes and allies. The military parade this Tuesday on the Champs-Élysées, on the occasion of Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was a demonstration of European unity and a tribute to Ukraine for its courage.
In the midst of a diplomatic crisis between Argentina and Brazil due to insults from the Argentine president, Javier Milei, to the Brazilian president Lula da Silva at an event supporting candidate Flávio Bolsonaro, the Casa Rosada announces the signing of a Presidential Decree that will allow the prohibition of entry or stay in the country to any foreigner accused of sending or inciting messages of hate, discrimination and/or violence against the Argentine people or its national symbols.
The unions Ustec, CGT, CNT, COS and Intersindical, meeting urgently this afternoon, have decided that they will call a strike for next Tuesday, the 9th, coinciding with the Pope’s visit to Barcelona, as some of these organizations already announced yesterday. However, for now, no further strike days will be proposed.
Aliança Catalana (AC) currently constitutes a unique political phenomenon in Spain. It is the party that is indisputably growing, according to all polls. More than Vox, since some surveys and the elections in Castilla y León point to a certain stagnation of Santiago Abascal’s party, pending what the Andalusian elections on the 17th may dictate. But the case of AC is a perfect assembly in demographic terms, as it is gaining potential voters not only from abstention but from several parties. If this continues, it could also disrupt the entire distribution of seats in the Parliament. Why has Aliança Catalana managed to gain ground so decisively, above Vox?
As expected, Mariano Rajoy has denied the main accusations made by former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas about his knowledge of an illegal slush fund within the party or about a supposed operation orchestrated by the Popular Party, the Government, or the Police to steal data that could criminally affect him. In fact, for the former president of the government, there was no illegal operation.
The European Central Bank (ECB) presented on Wednesday the ten finalist designs for the next generation of euro banknotes and has opened a public consultation so that citizens of the eurozone can express their preferences before the final decision.
A total of 92,000 visitors have walked through the Comic Barcelona fair from Friday until today, Sunday. A figure slightly lower than the 110,000 of the previous edition, partly due to the change of pavilion because of construction work inside Fira Montjuïc. That does not take away from Meritxell Puig, director of Ficomic, the organizing entity of this event, feeling “satisfaction” with how things have gone this year and with the sweet moment that comics are experiencing. “More families than ever have come,” she told La Vanguardia while recalling that this 2026 is the year they have had the most authors, both national and international, and the most publishers from different parts of the world, who “have been able to see the talent that is cultivated here, which is no small thing.”
Does Judge Juan Carlos Peinado deserve to be sanctioned? That question has divided judges. The permanent commission of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) met yesterday morning to debate the five complaints against Peinado, the investigating judge in the case of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez.