Firm, right! Right, right! March, right! One would think that the initiative of the Generalitat Government to strengthen the presence of the Mossos d’Esquadra in educational centers was equivalent to the promulgation of martial law. The so-called educational community, the part
The price of Brent crude oil has exceeded $125 early this Thursday after negotiations between the United States and Iran stalled, increasing uncertainty about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and pushing away the possible definitive end of the war.
Household consumption has driven the economy in the first quarter of the year, allowing GDP growth of 0.6%, which represents a moderation compared to the pace at which activity closed in 2025, although more limited than expected. Where analysts pointed to a GDP increase of four or five tenths, it has finally been six, according to data published this morning by the INE. Therefore, it remains below the 0.8% growth of the last quarter of last year.
For almost 40 years Andalusia was considered a socialist stronghold. It seemed like an enormous impregnable fortress. The socialists managed to blend in with the landscape in a remarkable way by identifying their brand with the construction of autonomy and the strengthening of an Andalusian identity in the early 80s. The so-called “captive vote” did the rest: for a long time the PSOE was skillful in attributing to itself the granting of agricultural aid and the implementation of public services. All this gave it an undeniable political stability. Now it is one of the few autonomous communities where the PP governs with an absolute majority, at a time when that achievement is a rarity. Has Andalusia turned to the right?
It was many hours of testimony, seven and a half. The commissioner Víctor de Aldama was interrogated before the Supreme Court throughout the entire day yesterday. He admitted some of his illicit businesses. He claimed to have paid commissions and gifts to the former minister José Luis Ábalos and his advisor Koldo García. And he also tried to implicate the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, with the shady dealings of the network.
Víctor de Aldama had to prove before the Supreme Court that he is telling the truth; it is his lifeline to have his collaboration with justice and repentance recognized and to achieve a considerable reduction of the sentence. To do this, he had to betray former minister José Luis Ábalos and his loyal squire Koldo García. And he did. Eight hours of testimony in which he recounted how he was paying them a kind of salary of 10,000 euros per month, in addition to other gifts including rents, vacations, apartments, motorcycles, cars, and even medical treatments, totaling between three and a half and four million. These amounts were qualified, but the estimate of what the former minister and his advisor received would be that, according to the commission agent’s version. The money did not all come out of his pocket. Aldama put in part, and other companies seeking contracts – with which he acted as a link – paid the rest. Part went to the minister and the advisor and another part to the PSOE, always according to his version.
The rental housing market in Spain is experiencing an unprecedented situation of legal uncertainty after the Congress of Deputies repealed the Government’s royal decree-law that allowed an extraordinary and mandatory extension of up to two years in lease contracts.
The Government wants to accelerate the approval of measures related to the housing rental market. Once it was confirmed that the royal decree-law extending contracts did not have support to be ratified, the Ministry of Housing will once again put on the table a package focused, on the one hand, on fiscal incentives and penalties for property owners and, on the other, on precise regulation of temporary rentals, where a part of traditional leases is being diverted.
Gabriel Rufián likes to provoke with his statements and he certainly succeeds because when he speaks in Congress he always attracts the attention of the members, who stop looking at their mobile phones to listen to him. His preferences in favor of tiktoks over the
The Global Sumud Flotilla, which seeks to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, reported being intercepted by vessels identifying themselves as Israeli while sailing near the coasts of Greece.