The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, criticized footballer Lamine Yamal this Thursday after images were released this week showing the FC Barcelona player waving a Palestinian flag during the celebration of the League title in the Catalan City.
The seppuku of the Japanese samurais (a painful cut in the abdomen with a dagger, dressed in white ritual clothes and writing a farewell poem) was not just any way to take one’s life, but an honorable death to avoid being captured, pay for failure, demonstrate loyalty, bravery, and self-control. It was banned at the end of the 19th century but even if it were not, and despite its romanticism, there is nothing further from the will of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer than to commit harakiri.
Rosa Peral, the media-savvy inmate protagonist of the Urban Guard crime, allegedly devised a plan to assault one of the prison officials who guarded her module, according to Diari de Tarragona and confirmed by La Vanguardia.
“This can only be unlocked from Catalonia,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo told Josep Sánchez-Llibre, the president of the large Catalan employers’ association Foment del Treball, after his speech at the annual conferences of the Cercle d’Economia. That phrase, directed at whom it was directed, was full of intent. Sánchez-Llibre is one of the few representatives of Catalan civil society with notable interlocution and capacity for influence over the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont. So Feijóo was seeking help to convince the former president of the convenience of favoring a no-confidence motion that would unseat Pedro Sánchez. Both the socialist and the popular leader sent messages to Waterloo, but in very different tones and content. Junts has made it clear from the beginning that their votes are in exchange for demands, so it’s about knowing what Sánchez and Feijóo offer to potential allies. Well, both have made it quite clear this week in Barcelona.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, made a passionate defense of the “just” energy transition this Monday and announced the Government’s willingness to allocate 9.1 billion euros to reducing CO2 emissions with social aid in transport and housing, according to the proposal of the Social Plan for the Climate launched by the Government. The proposal of this social plan was presented in Madrid at an event where he was accompanied by the ministers for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen; Transport, Óscar Puente; and Housing, Isabel Rodríguez.
Puig continues with negotiations with the American group Estée Lauder for a possible merger, but admits that there is no guarantee that the operation will go ahead. “As long as there is no agreement, it cannot be guaranteed that there will be an operation or its terms,” reiterated the Catalan fragrance multinational in its communication to the CNMV of the results up to March.
The National Court has agreed to the precautionary suspension of the Government decree declaring the headquarters of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, located in Puerta del Sol, as a Place of Democratic Memory, where the Directorate General of Security was formerly installed. The resolution includes a dissenting vote
At least three people have died and three others are seriously ill due to an outbreak of a hantavirus recorded on a cruise in the Atlantic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. The infection has been confirmed in one of the deceased and is suspected in the others who have fallen ill. It is exceptional for hantaviruses to be transmitted between people, and there is no precedent for hantavirus outbreaks with multiple cases on cruises.
This week there has been good news in Catalunya. The PSC, ERC, and the commons have reached a budget agreement that will allow a 10% increase in spending and represents a point of stability in Catalunya, after years of shocks and paralysis. In this…
The word “empowerment” made no sense but there was Rosa Esteva to exercise it in 80s Barcelona at the head of her Mordisco, the first of the 26 restaurants of the Tragaluz Group. On Thursday, Barcelona paid tribute to the person and her vision in a Saló de…