The fire declared last week in the municipality of La Mierla (Guadalajara) has stopped its advance to Soria, as indicated by the regional president, Emiliano García-Page, who said that they are beginning to “see the light beyond the smoke” and stated that the flames have already devastated 29,000 hectares.
The Constitutional Court will deliberate on September 22 for the first time on the pending appeals for protection due to the Supreme Court’s refusal to apply the Amnesty law to the leaders of the ‘procés’ who were convicted of embezzlement.
Every summer, the road changes the everyday map of Spain: families heading to the coast, groups of friends chaining kilometers, drivers returning on a Sunday afternoon, and travelers adjusting the journey to the heat, fatigue, or unforeseen events. The departure operation retains its symbolic strength, but the road trip is no longer understood solely as the time that separates the origin from the destination. Increasingly, it is also built in those intermediate moments when one decides to stop, rest, reorganize the car, or simply regain energy before continuing.
A man has died this Tuesday after being stabbed in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona. According to sources from the Mossos d’Esquadra who spoke to this media outlet, the police received a call around 03:25 in the morning about a fight on the Barceloneta promenade.
A woman was murdered this Tuesday with a bladed weapon by her partner, a 48-year-old man, who has been arrested by the Civil Guard in the town of Alameda de la Sagra in Toledo.
The forest fire that started in La Mierla, which has already ravaged more than 26,000 hectares in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, is not only leaving behind a scorched landscape and a long list of confined or evacuated municipalities. It also threatens to destroy the way of life of dozens of farming families who watch helplessly as the fire devours the pastures, forces the displacement of hundreds of livestock, and puts the work of entire generations at risk.
Intense heat returns to the Peninsula (if it ever left this summer). The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned that Spain begins today its third heat wave which will likely last until Thursday, the 23rd.
The law to restrict housing purchases in Catalonia continues its processing in the Parliament with a relevant new development: the PSC and ERC propose to limit its application only to large holders (five or more homes) and to companies (legal entities). This is reflected in the amendments that socialists and republicans have introduced on their own and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
The Council of Ministers will likely approve today the tobacco bill, which, among other issues, expands the areas where neither smoking nor vaping is allowed, such as bar terraces, venues where public shows take place, sports facilities, playgrounds, transport stations, or educational centers, including university campuses, among others. This reform is part of the development of the Comprehensive Plan for the Prevention and Control of Smoking 2024-2027.
The capital city effect explains part of why the State invested more than twice as much in Madrid as in Catalonia last year. The other part is because the actual spending on works is lower in the Catalan community than in the one that hosts the capital.
