Let’s avoid the sweats associated with bad news. We already have enough with the Egyptian summer we have to endure. Let’s cool down with an article of measured complacency with the Government. Watch out, do not confuse it with enthusiasm! Experience advises always taking the pill of…
The Catalan business fabric remains very strong and also very complex. For this reason, the organizations that aim to represent it live in a constant tension with interests that do not always align. Their confrontations resemble literary disputes, like those of the…
Division in the extraordinary plenary this Thursday at the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, which will experience one of the tensest votes of this last term. The executive committee, the highest governing body of the institution chaired by Josep Santacreu, approved last week an agreement to increase the so-called silver seats from 2 to 10, and now it is the plenary that must decide whether to accept this measure or not. What is at stake is the number of board seats linked to a voluntary financial contribution and that have historically been held by major corporations relevant to the Catalan economy. The pro-independence candidacy Eines de País – which won the 2019 elections and lost the 2023 ones against Santacreu – opposes it, as does the Catalan employers’ association Pimec.
Despite the efforts of the Argentine coach, Lionel Scaloni, to separate the football match from politics, some of the Albiceleste players celebrated the victory against England by displaying a banner that read: The Malvinas are Argentine, a sovereignty claim and a symbolic burden that marked the qualifier.
Rarely has such a thunderous “goool” been heard in my Barcelona neighborhood as the two from last night. Argentina will be in the final thanks to eight final minutes of madness, a positive event for football and adverse to Spain’s interests because it is hard to put the finishing touch…
Before the first World Cup semifinal, it was easy to jump on the bandwagon of those who saw France as the favorite. No one underestimated Spain, far from it, but Deschamps’ team was the one leaving the best impressions in the tournament, without a doubt. Four top-level forwards placed them as the best attacking team. “We are facing the best team…”, De la Fuente began telling his players in the locker room, before they went out to warm up at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas. It was only a prelude to the message he wanted to convey, the concept that is leading him to success. “… But we are the best team,” he concluded to energize the players before attempting what would become an overwhelming storming of the Bastille. July 14 will also be a national holiday in Spain because it opened the way to fight for the red team’s second star.
The ruling of the EU Court of Justice on the amnesty for the leaders of the procés is the culmination of the growing confrontation between Pedro Sánchez’s Government and the judiciary. The Executive barely hides it anymore and accuses some judges of acting in a twisted manner, driven by political motives. On the other side, magistrates holding positions in high courts and conservative judges’ associations consider themselves attacked in their independence. They even see themselves as the last defenders of the State against a Government they consider populist and capable of fostering the breakup of the State and the degradation of institutions in order to stay in power.
The payment processing company Stripe and the private equity fund Advent International announced yesterday a $53 billion – or €46 billion – takeover bid to buy the digital payment service PayPal, a pioneering firm in online transactions. The bidders offer $60.50 per share, with a premium of about 28% over the previous closing price. Its shares rose 15% yesterday.
A woman and her two minor children have died this Wednesday by drowning in the reservoir of the Navarrese town of Roncal, a bathing area, in the Esca river.
After two years of intense national debate, the deeply divided French National Assembly approved this Wednesday, by 291 votes in favor and 241 against, the bill on “the right to assistance in dying.” The decriminalization, under strict conditions and protocols, of assisted suicide and euthanasia – words that the legislative text avoids naming – has had the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who has urged the Government to accelerate the process.