Tonight the campaign for the election of the future government of the Junta de Andalucía begins. Its result closes the electoral cycle started in December and will cast a long shadow over the remainder of the legislature.
Thousands of the more than 40,000 immigrants who entered Ceuta irregularly yesterday, due to Morocco’s permissiveness, have begun returning to their country throughout the morning of this Friday, after realizing that the autonomous city, completely overwhelmed, does not have the capacity to respond to them. The same point where they arrived by swimming or on foot, the El Tarajal border breakwater, has become an open entry gate, because the flow of entries does not stop despite the military deployment, and an exit, through which to leave Spain, once it has been confirmed that they have nowhere to eat or sleep.
La Diada of September 11 usually becomes a political thermometer. It not only serves to assess the mood and relationships among the various souls of Catalan nationalism, but also measures Catalonia’s position in a global context. If the first Diada of democracy, that of 1976 in Sant Boi, served to demand freedom and democracy, now the context is marked by problems in the most basic services – education, healthcare, mobility, housing… – and the rise of the far right. Faced with the risk that extremisms may boil over in this broth, the Catalan Executive claims coexistence, plurality, and the democratic commitment that prevailed 50 years ago.
For weeks, some of Europe’s great rivers have been in the spotlight for revealing striking images of treasures hidden for decades. Shipwrecks, Nazi relics, and even mammoth bones. The drought that has been hitting the continent since spring and the prolonged lack of rain have severely affected the flow of Europe’s most important rivers such as the Loire, the Rhine, and the Danube, leaving them extremely dry.
PP, Compromís and Vox have criticized that the ‘former president’ of the Generalitat Ximo Puig has hired the nephew of his partner, the former councilor Gabriela Bravo, as his driver in his ‘former president’ office, while the PSPV has defended the figure of the one who was his secretary general and has recalled that this is a position of free appointment in which a person from the family environment can be hired, just as politicians from other parties do in other administrations.
The new generations allocate part of their budget to mental health, sports, or education, needs that a few decades ago were not even part of everyday life. Prices in Spain have risen by 3.2% in the last year, a figure that coexists with a widespread feeling: everyday life has become more expensive in almost everything, even in what was not previously considered consumption.
Madrid woke up with churros and the buzzing of Formula 3 engines already at 10 in the morning. An unfamiliar noise coming from the East of the city, from Ifema, the fairground, where a colossal red and yellow flag, 420 square meters of fabric in the wind, marks the place: Madring, the place to be.
The Metro Madrid service on line 9, between the Puerta de Arganda and Sainz de Baranda stations, has been interrupted since early morning due to technical reasons.
The OECD became aware of the high exemption rate of students in Catalonia in the PISA tests in March 2026, when it received the relevant reports from Spain and its autonomous communities, and immediately communicated the issue to the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, according to a spokesperson for the organization speaking to La Vanguardia. The tests were conducted in April 2025 and at that time technicians from the Ministry and the Generalitat already warned of the high rate of students exempted from taking the exams, but according to the ministry, they did not report it to their superiors, so there was no room for correction nor, supposedly, the ability to inform the OECD evaluation group.
El Govern has expanded this Friday the scope of its loan program for young people aimed at financing the down payment for the purchase of a home. Support to break one of the critical points in access to real estate, which grants financing of up to 50,000 euros without interest, a long grace period, and now extends to new types of property.
