The goal by Ferran Torres gave a moment of euphoria to more than 2,000 Palestinians in Ramallah, in occupied West Bank; a place where collective joy is an extremely scarce commodity. Good news is fleeting in this land. Barely three minutes later, as the crowd held its breath before the imminent victory of the Spanish team, the broadcast of the match stopped.
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) is investigating the ERC deputy in the Parliament and former Interior Minister Joan Ignasi Elena and the former ICV coordinator Joan Herrera as necessary accomplices in an alleged crime of administrative misconduct for which the former mayor of Altafulla (Tarragona) and deputy in the Congress for Sumar, Félix Alonso Cantorné, is being investigated in the Supreme Court.
Seven weeks of strike. The workers of the municipal nursery schools of Madrid, on strike since last April 7, gathered again this Monday in the Plaza de la Villa to demand wage improvements and to protest against the extensions of the bidding contracts for these centers, coinciding with the meeting of the Commission on Social Policies, Family, and Equality in the Cardenal Cisneros building.
The Trump administration is going to eliminate a policy in place for decades that allowed international students, participants in cultural exchange programs, and journalists to stay in the United States for the time necessary to complete their activity: from now on they will have a limit of four years (240 days for journalists) after which those affected will be forced to request an extension from the federal government.
The former Prime Minister Felipe González has said it, for the first time, loud and clear. In his opinion, there should be general elections this year, given the weakness of the current Government of Pedro Sánchez. Although González does not base this opinion exclusively on the latest events surrounding his successor José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, he maintains that he cannot imagine him in the role depicted by the UDEF about him, at the head of a criminal organization involved in influence peddling, but he assures that the judge handling the case is being “extremely protective of rights.” He said this in the interview he held at the forum of the Valencian Business Association, AVE, chaired by Vicente Boluda.
Natural, spontaneous, friendly, uninhibited and also, as he is, a bit playful. For the first time since he got injured against Celta on April 22, Lamine Yamal explained how he experienced the moment he got injured at the Spotify Camp Nou and what he felt in the hours afterward. He does not hide the panic that overwhelmed him at that moment at the possibility of missing the World Cup. After taking and scoring the penalty in which he suffered the injury, Lamine experienced fear. “I remember the sequence in which I got injured. I was praying inside that it was nothing, that it was a cramp or something, because I saw myself very close to the World Cup moment. I was afraid it was very serious or that I could relapse and miss the World Cup,” said the Barcelona forward in statements to the Spanish Federation media.
Every forced act becomes unpleasant. The phrase, attributed to Aristotle, finds an escape in the act of eating. Feeding oneself is a biological imperative, a necessary refueling, but enjoying oneself while eating… Ah, that is a different matter. Even more: that sensation, which naturally occurs both when dipping the spoon into grandma’s stew and when feeling the spherifications burst upon closing the mouth, becomes an exercise in hedonism when the click happens: the moment of awareness. La Vanguardia’s Comer channel celebrated its tenth anniversary last night at the Azul restaurant, by Romain Fornell: “This is a night to eat, drink, and laugh with an incredible team of editors and collaborators who approach gastronomy in a transversal way. We try to tell people’s stories to get to know them more intimately. This is a night to be happy,” says its director, journalist Cristina Jolonch.
A minor stabbed a man in the early hours of this Sunday, on Pau Street, next to the Fòrum beach in Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelonès Nord). The events occurred around six in the morning and ended with the arrest of the attacker thanks to the intervention of the security guards of an establishment in the area, who provided the description.
Catalan cuisine will be the focus of the new restaurant Masia Tibidabo, which already has an opening date: June 5. The Tibidabo Amusement Park wanted to commemorate the park’s 125th anniversary by entrusting the gastronomic offer of the new establishment to Rafa Zafra, chef of the Barcelona restaurants Estimar, Amar, and Per Feina, as well as the successful Jondal in Ibiza.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo is in Barcelona this Tuesday, where he will speak to Catalan entrepreneurs at the Cercle d’Economia sessions at a time of maximum political pressure for Junts to support an instrumental motion of no confidence to accelerate the calling of elections. According to sources from Feijóo’s team, the PP leader will deliver a “brave” speech during the dialogue he will have with economist Teresa García-Milà. The meeting in Barcelona takes place 24 hours after Feijóo himself expressed being “optimistic” about the possibility of a change of Government through the vote of no confidence because “184 deputies” in Congress “are demanding early and immediate elections.” “If those who say it are consistent and do it, we can find a solution in a short time,” he added yesterday.