When he returned to power a year and a half ago, Donald Trump promised that he would adopt a hands-off approach to artificial intelligence development, which would allow the United States to “unleash the full potential of AI,” in contrast to the more regulatory stance of his predecessor, Joe Biden, and that of the countries of the European Union.
The drums of trade war are rumbling again.
Amidst the debate on regional financing and while several communities governed by the PP denounce that the new model privileges Catalans, the General Intervention Board of the State Administration (IGAE), dependent on the Ministry of Finance, has made public…
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.
The Mossos d’Esquadra from the Martorell investigation unit have taken a statement, on two occasions, from a British woman resident in Barcelona, aged around fifty, who has been working as an English interpreter for decades and who occasionally collaborated with the therapist of the Andic family, Maria Julia Lüderwaldt. The woman first went to the Catalan police station in Martorell on June 29, accompanied by a lawyer, and for two hours she recounted what she had kept silent about for the last year and a half and which, literally, prevented her from sleeping peacefully.
Spain will suffer its third heatwave this week so far this summer. Three episodes of very high temperatures in just six weeks. Faced with this unusual streak, some meteorologists are starting to talk about a new concept: “heatwave trains”, a succession of extreme events with hardly any respite and which reflects a change in climate patterns in Europe and, especially, in Spain.
The expected confession of businessman Julio Martínez Martínez fell short. According to legal sources, it could be an advance, an announcement of his predisposition to collaborate, but it was not a complete statement that would allow finding out who former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero influenced, among other things, to achieve the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra, which was granted 53 million euros after the pandemic to prevent its eventual financial collapse.
Shake-up in the Ukrainian army. President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, this Tuesday and has appointed General Mykhailo Drapatyi, who until now was in charge of leading the Joint Forces, in his place.
The verdict in the Mascarillas case has set the path. A very harsh sentence against the corrupted –José Luis Ábalos and Koldo García– and exoneration for the corruptor –Víctor de Aldama–. The rules of the game are clear, and whoever wants to follow them has options to avoid jail….
The defense of former president Carles Puigdemont made a move this Tuesday and filed a complaint against Spain before the European Commission in response to the Court of Auditors’ refusal to apply the Amnesty Law from the outset, a gesture that, in their opinion, contravenes the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).