Focusing on migration and the humane treatment that migrants deserve, both those who embark on a cayuco on the African coasts and risk their lives to cross the Atlantic and the Latin Americans who leave their countries and set out on the path to seek a better life, is the main reason why the Canary Islands are one of the stops of the Pope on his first visit to Spain.
Vox has toned down its public disagreements with the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) ahead of the upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV to Spain. The party wants to reduce the rhetorical clash with the bishops, focused on the migration debate and national priority, a divergence that has been ongoing for a long time. In this regard, the attendance of the organization’s secretary general, Ignacio Garriga, at a conference by the president of the prelates, Luis Argüello, this May in Madrid should be understood.
Eating is the most important action of each day, and feeding society in a healthy way is a huge responsibility. Even more so when local vegetable production in Catalonia has fallen by 74% in the last 25 years, while exports have tripled: the territory now functions more as a redistribution platform than as a garden.
El Clínic Barcelona Comprehensive Cancer Centre (4CB) has received one of the highest European recognitions in oncology by being accredited as a comprehensive cancer center by the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI).
Catalunya has reached a new absolute heat record in May. The 39.5 ºC recorded in Vinebre (Ribera d’Ebre) is the highest temperature ever reached in this month, surpassing the previous record: 38.5 ºC in May 2022 in Castellbisbal and Anglès, and matched on Thursday also in Vinebre.
A federal judge temporarily blocked on Friday President Donald Trump’s initiative to create a $1.776 billion fund to compensate people who claim to have been subject to the “instrumentalization” of the federal government during the Joe Biden administration.
An Extraordinary Plenary Session of the Algete City Council approved yesterday, Thursday, to remove the name of Joan Manuel Serrat from a municipal building, to rename it after a resident, who will be declared Favorite Son of the Town of Algete.
The signing of Anthony Gordon by Barça has been one of the most frantic in recent memory, but this Friday it suffered an unexpected delay in the contract signing. The agreement was closed on Wednesday, he landed in Barcelona on Thursday to undergo the medical examination, and the official announcement of the signing was scheduled for Friday at noon, following the formal signing of the agreement.
The European Commission gave the green light this Friday for Spain to implement a multi-million euro anti-blackout mechanism to strengthen the electricity supply and prevent episodes like the one in April last year, when much of the Iberian Peninsula was left in the dark. The figures are enormous: the system approved under the EU state aid rules will have a cost of 900 million annually, that is, 9 billion for the 10 years it is expected to last.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has achieved his goal in Brussels. The European Commission has announced the release of 16.4 billion euros of European funds blocked by Viktor Orbán’s policies just three weeks after taking office. “It was one of the campaign promises and we have fulfilled it,” celebrated the European popular, very smiling alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “If every time I come I leave with this amount of money, I will come more often,” he joked.