The secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, has challenged the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to propose the instrumental motion of no confidence to remove Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa and call general elections to the president of the party, Carles Puigdemont, in Waterloo.
On May 22, 1976, a team of professionals from the pediatrics and hematology services at the Sant Pau hospital carried out the first bone marrow transplant in Spain. Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of this milestone, and the Barcelona hospital has scheduled various commemorative events.
At 13:49 yesterday, May 14, the trial against the Pujol family and nine businessmen who allegedly paid them commissions in exchange for public works was submitted for judgment. 38 oral hearing sessions, in which more than 200 witnesses and experts have appeared. The trial closes 3,685 days after the visit of Victoria Álvarez, Jordi Pujol Ferrusola’s ex-lover, to the Canillas police complex, accompanied by the “patriotic police,” in which she explains that she saw with her own eyes how Pujol Ferrusola carried bags of cash to Andorra. It is December 13, 2012. The police investigation that started then, which was halted until El Mundo published seventeen months later information about the Pujol accounts in Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) allegedly obtained by the Spanish police, ended with the entire family charged, as well as ten businessmen; since the hearing began last November, one of them, Carles Vilarrubí, has died, and former president Pujol was exonerated for health reasons. The rest await sentencing, possibly at the end of July, according to legal sources. All the accused plead not guilty. About 200 hours of oral hearing have not cleared up many of the case’s doubts.
A Ukrainian drone struck a residential building in Moscow for the first time in several years this Monday, just ten kilometers from the Kremlin, according to the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergey Sobyanin. The attack in the capital adds to other drones that Ukraine had launched against the oil terminal at the port of Primorsk, one of Russia’s main export ports with the capacity to handle one million barrels of oil per day, in the Baltic Sea, and two tankers from the Russian ghost fleet in waters near the entrance to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, in the Black Sea.
The Bellvitge hospital has reduced the diagnosis time for pulmonary fibrosis from two years to six months thanks to a fast track with primary care centers. This model, extendable to the entire healthcare system, prevents the deterioration of lung function and allows for more therapeutic options.
This is Donald Trump’s pendulum, which as soon as he threatens the total destruction of Iran, he backtracks saying that the negotiations are going well. This Tuesday, explanations were required for the decision to halt the new initiative to bomb the Middle East enemy.
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).
The encyclical of Leo XIV on AI is a major text that will shape the social debate
Gabriel Zucman, former academic at the University of California (Berkeley), is director of the International Tax Observatory in Paris. He is the ideologue behind the 2% global minimum tax on the ultra-rich with assets exceeding $1 billion, which would affect 3,000 people worldwide. This interview took place on the occasion of the Global Progressive Mobilisation, which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona.
The truce between Russia and Ukraine for the days May 8, 9, and 10 is now a reality. This was confirmed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in a statement on Truth Social, in which he thanks both presidents for reaching an agreement.