The former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has released a video this Tuesday in which he wanted to respond to the notification he received this very morning from the National Court, summoning him as an investigated party – what was formerly called “accused” – for the next June 2, for alleged corruption crimes in the case of the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra.
Not all past times were better. In fact, most of the time it was worse than the deceptive memory suggests. It is understandable that older people feel nostalgia for their youth, when – for better or worse – they had their whole lives ahead of them. It is more surprising that young people feel it for an idealized time they have not lived through. But, beyond the ignorance it denotes – and which, given the levels of reading comprehension of our schoolchildren, shows no signs of improving – it is an indicator of the discomfort and bewilderment that the present arouses in part of society.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Edmondo Cirielli, called on Spain this Monday to “assume its responsibilities” for the regularization of immigrants and insisted that they will maintain controls on passengers coming from Spain by air and sea “at least until mid-August” and will then evaluate the situation.
The mask trial that has brought the former Minister of Transport and former Secretary of Organization of the Socialist Party, José Luís Ábalos, to the dock comes to an end today still with some questions yet to be resolved. Clearer are the effects that this case has had on
Felipe VI referred this Thursday to the meeting he held this week at the Zarzuela Palace with the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the main military leaders to analyze the situation in Ceuta. In the informal conversations following the opening ceremony of the Judicial Year, the King explained that among the responsibilities he has as head of state is to be informed about the various military operations.
Historic hotels often honor their illustrious guests of the past with tributes and commemorative acts. Because the intimate history of universal literature overlaps with the biography of a few dozen renowned establishments where writers
La Guardia Urbana de Barcelona has arrested this afternoon a man suspected of having started the fire that burned ten hectares of the Collserola mountain range. A few minutes after the first flames were detected, a municipal police patrol patrolling Pearson Avenue saw a man acting suspiciously, quickly leaving the place. The police stopped him, identified him as he could not specify what he was doing there exactly, and among his belongings found two lighters.
The first witnesses deflated the accusations against David Sánchez yesterday. “I don’t remember,” “I have no evidence,” or “there were no irregularities” were the main statements during the long court session. The brother of the Prime Minister sits in the dock at the Badajoz Court accused of separate crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling for allegedly having been given a job at the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017.
Fifteen years have passed since the most important social outbreak in democratic Spain. The 15-M emerged on a Sunday in May at Puerta del Sol in Madrid as a demonstration called via the internet, with a success that surprised even the organizers. And those outraged by economic precariousness and the political system did not go home after the protest. They set up a camp that spread to Barcelona, in Plaça Catalunya, and then throughout the country. There was a willingness to participate in politics. Thousands and thousands of hours of assemblies to outline possible roadmaps turned the squares into laboratories of direct democracy. What remains today of that movement? Could it happen again?
The housing problem is driving the search for alternative solutions, such as the promotion of properties managed by cooperatives, following the experience of countries like Switzerland, Denmark, and Uruguay. Catalonia, the main community implementing the model in Spain, has 71 cooperative housing projects in use transfer in the last decade, more than half of which are currently in project or under construction. The total amounts to 1,218 apartments, most of them protected.