The Nuclear Safety Council approves the extension of Almaraz until 2030

The Nuclear Safety Council approves the extension of Almaraz until 2030

The Plenary of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has approved this morning to extend the activity of the Almaraz nuclear power plant for three more years, until 2030. This is what the owners of the plant, Iberdrola, Endesa, and Naturgy, had requested. This position of the Nuclear Safety Council was mandatory, but it does not yet represent the final step for the plant to extend its operational life. From now on, it is the Government who has to make the final decision.

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Instrumental motion of no confidence or act of faith?

Instrumental motion of no confidence or act of faith?

The Partido Popular has been pressuring Junts and the PNV for months to join their votes with those of the PP and Vox and support in the Congress of Deputies an “instrumental” motion of no confidence, with Alberto Núñez Feijóo as the candidate for the presidency of the Government. The motion of no confidence is a mechanism that the law provides to withdraw confidence from the president, in this case Pedro Sánchez, and yesterday Feijóo specified his offer to the two nationalist parties: the motion would be to accelerate the calling of elections and in the government appointed once he is elected president, Vox would not be included. But nothing guarantees that these two conditions – elections in the short term and a government without Vox – will be met. It is rather an act of faith that is asked of the two parties.

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Sánchez and Page highlight the collaboration between administrations, “without political calculation”, against fires

Sánchez and Page highlight the collaboration between administrations, “without political calculation”, against fires

In contrast to what happened last summer, when the management of forest fires intensified the political clash between the central Executive and some autonomous communities governed by the Popular Party, such as those of Madrid or Castilla y León, Pedro Sánchez and the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, both socialists, agreed this Wednesday on the importance of coordination and joint work between the different administrations, “shoulder to shoulder”, to fight against fire and the consequences of the climate emergency. The mayor of Tamajón (Guadalajara), Eugenio Esteban, of the PP, also thanked this collaboration between administrations, during the visit that Sánchez and Page made to the advanced command post installed in this town to combat the La Mierla forest fire, which has already devastated more than 32,000 hectares and has become the largest in Castilla-La Mancha.

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Housing offers Junts and PNV to reduce the IRPF for landlords who freeze rent

Housing offers Junts and PNV to reduce the IRPF for landlords who freeze rent

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.

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Abuses against the flotilla open a new rift between Europe and Israel

Abuses against the flotilla open a new rift between Europe and Israel

The scene of Minister Itamar Ben Gvir humiliating the international activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla could cost the Israeli government dearly. In the European Union, which is gradually hardening its stance regarding the attitude of Beniamin Netanyahu’s administration, the images of foreign civilians handcuffed and kneeling amid the laughter of the Israeli National Security Minister have caused outrage.

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Trapped in the burofax after the fall of the decree to extend the rentals

Trapped in the burofax after the fall of the decree to extend the rentals

The Ministry of Social Rights and Consumer Affairs encouraged the 2.7 million tenants potentially affected by the extension of leases to send a burofax to their landlord as the key for the contract extension to be valid. However, those affected are not sure that this document protects landlords against tenants. The general atmosphere is one of confusion, which increases instability in a market that has already been complicated for some time.

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