The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has decided to retract from its scientific journal (PNAS) an article published by a group of researchers, including the Spanish Mariano Barbacid, on advances in combating pancreatic cancer, after detecting a “significant” conflict of interest.
It’s the “paradox of effort.” This is how Marta Alcega, a member of the Associació Professional de Tècnics Tributaris de Catalunya i Balears (APttCB), summarizes it. In the income tax return, a self-employed person with an annual income of 10,000 euros faces a tax bill of 558 euros in the personal income tax settlement, while an employee with the same income pays nothing.
The European Parliament is back at it, pushing to extend the “only yes means yes” rule across the entire EU. This means requiring member states to define rape based on the absence of explicit consent, rather than the use of force, following the Istanbul Convention. The plenary of the European Parliament voted on Tuesday in favor of a report to include consent in the directive on gender-based violence in EU law, something it already tried to do during the previous legislature, but which was left pending due to the refusal of some member states, led by France and Germany, who argued the EU’s lack of competence to regulate such a matter at a European level.
Far-right MEP Luis ‘Alvise’ Pérez loses parliamentary immunity. The European Parliament voted this Tuesday in favor of lifting the protection of the leader of Se acabó La Fiesta (SALF), as requested by the Supreme Court to be able to prosecute him for alleged harassment on social media via Telegram of Valencia’s delegated prosecutor for hate crimes and discrimination, Susana Gisbert.
Jordi Pujol Ferrusola was the “driver” of the letters that his mother, Marta Ferrusola, sent to Andorra. The “missals,” in the terminology she invented to talk about money. This is what his son explained during the two days of questioning he underwent in the trial being conducted by the Audiencia Nacional against the Pujol family for alleged money laundering and illicit association.
The Russian superyacht Nord, linked to billionaire Aleksei Mordashov, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has managed to navigate through the Strait of Hormuz, becoming one of the few vessels that has successfully transited this maritime route currently blocked by the war in Iran, according to the MarineTraffic platform. The event occurs after a meeting of an Iranian delegation with the Russian president in St. Petersburg.
Ukrainian drones have hit a Russian refinery in the city of Tuapse, on the Black Sea, for the third time this month. The first two attacks caused an oil leak and black rain over the city. This Tuesday’s attack has forced Vladimir Putin to take control of the situation, sending the Minister of Emergency Situations to the area.
The Ministry of Economy estimates that the impact of the war in Iran will reduce the growth of the Spanish economy by between one and four tenths this year and could push inflation to 3.1%. In global terms, four tenths of GDP would represent up to 7,000 million in negative impact. The Government currently maintains the estimate that the economy will grow by 2.2% this year, but the First Vice-President, Carlos Cuerpo, has announced that this forecast will be revised in the coming weeks.
The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a severe blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, at a time when the war with Iran has caused a historic energy shock and destabilized the global economy.
The predictable rejection in the Congress of Deputies of the decree containing the extraordinary extension of rental contracts (Junts plans to vote against and the PNV has confirmed it will abstain), which the Government approved a month ago, opens a scenario of legal insecurity that pits tenants and landlords against each other. All experts consulted agree that a wave of complaints could begin (the UGT union speaks of an “avalanche”) from tenants who see their landlord unwilling to extend the terms of their current contract. The scenario, from a legal point of view, is unprecedented.