The operational central unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard went this Wednesday early in the morning to the national headquarters of the PSOE, on Ferraz street in Madrid, to request documentation within the framework of the investigation into the so-called Leire case, according to police sources confirmed to La Vanguardia.
It has been almost twenty years since the then president of the Generalitat José Montilla warned of the growing disenchantment of the citizens towards the institutions. He was then talking about the Catalunya-Spain relationship since we were in the preamble of what later happened because…
At 94 years old, Raúl Castro has to play hide and seek.
Thousands of young Moroccans are heading this Thursday to the border between Castillejos, in Morocco, and Ceuta to try to cross the fence that separates the two cities, as confirmed by EFE.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has referred to Spain as a “ruined country,” in reference to the crisis in Ceuta, after stating that the massive crossing of migrants from Morocco “is sad to see.”
The court judging the Kitchen case, the alleged parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas between 2013 and 2015, finished yesterday hearing the recordings submitted as evidence in the case and today will begin to listen to the ten accused, including former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez. The Prosecutor’s Office is requesting 15 years in prison for both.
A volunteer firefighter is detained after confessing to having caused one of the fires in the large blaze that has already burned more than 2,000 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, about 60 kilometers south of Paris, a natural gem with a large number of visitors throughout the year.
“Assault,” “invasion,” “humanitarian crisis.” The qualifiers have been numerous to define the largest mass entry of migrants into Spain, in this case Ceuta, all at once. The figure, which may still grow, is 72,000 entries and 82 bodies recovered in the Spanish area. The majority, of Moroccan nationality, returned voluntarily upon discovering that on the other side of the breakwater there was not even water and food for them.
In the last decade, Catalonia has become one of the main laboratories for housing regulation in Spain. The puzzle of the housing emergency has left behind a trail of measures promoted by the administrations to protect the most vulnerable households, expand the stock of social housing, or contain rents amid the unstoppable rise in prices, while new rules have been introduced to define who is a major holder or to limit the use of seasonal contracts. The latest of these laws promoted by the Generalitat, against the “speculative purchase” of properties, did not pass the examination of the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries this summer. The Catalan government has committed to modifying the regulation, which has been strongly criticized by employers’ associations and real estate sector entities, as they consider it will worsen the supply crisis. While property owners warn that overregulation has generated even more legal uncertainty, the movement for the right to decent housing alerts to the loopholes in these regulations.
Morocco has ordered this Saturday, without offering further explanations, the journalists from EFE and TVE sent to Fnideq (the former Castillejos, southwest of Ceuta,) to leave the town, where they are covering the situation in the border area.