The economic and civil world bid farewell this noon to the former president of La Caixa, Josep Vilarasau, at the funeral held at the Tanatori de Sant Gervasi in Barcelona. The executive passed away last Tuesday in Barcelona at the age of 95.
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.
Mortgagors with loans indexed to the Euribor who have their review with the July data will notice an increase in their installments. The indicator will close with the highest monthly average since September 2024, as the provisional data, with one day left to conclude the month, stands at 2.85%, three-quarters of a percentage point higher than a year ago. The figure is also slightly higher than that of June.
“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.”
The Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office defended this Thursday its actions in the judicial procedure prior to the murder of a woman at the hands of her husband, last Tuesday in the San Martín district, in the presence of the couple’s two minor children.
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.
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.
The Community of Madrid rectifies and puts up for sale the penthouse that it had supposedly acquired for temporary office use for Isabel Díaz Ayuso and her team on General Martínez Campos promenade while works were being carried out in Puerta del Sol.
After the arrival of thousands of migrants at the Ceuta border, the neighbors took out their phones to record and be able to transmit and process calmly later what was happening at that moment.
The Italian government is considering suspending the Schengen agreement with Spain in response to the migration crisis in Ceuta, according to sources from the Prime Minister’s office on Thursday.
