Criminal sentences have a curious habit: they judge specific people for practices that stopped shocking almost everyone a long time ago. In the first trials for ecological crime, there was a defense known as the dead river defense. The accused could have…
David Sánchez, brother of the President of the Government, and Miguel Ángel Gallardo, former president of the Diputación of Badajoz and former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, have been sentenced for a crime of administrative prevarication to nine years of disqualification from employment or public office and from exercising passive suffrage in a ruling issued by the Audiencia of Badajoz that has been made public today. What is the crime of administrative prevarication?
A few days ago, technicians from the Barcelona City Council dismantled once again, table by table and chair by chair, what has been known for several years as the largest illegal terrace in the city. This is another consequence of the tourist overcrowding that affects this side of Barcelona.
At least two people have died and four have gone missing this Tuesday in a fire declared at a construction site in Brussels (Belgium). This has been confirmed by the Labor Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the case. It is believed that the missing may be in an elevator of the building, which firefighters are trying to access.
A total of thirteen political formations to the left of the PSOE, including Més per Mallorca, ERC, Sumar, Podemos, EH Bildu, Compromís, CUP, BNG, Izquierda Unida, Comuns, Adelante Andalucía, Somos Asturies, and Más Madrid, have called on Pedro Sánchez’s government not to authorize the extradition of the American millionaire, pro-Palestinian activist, who has been held in preventive detention in the Eivissa prison since his arrest last Friday.
Inflation fell more than expected throughout June in the United States, standing at 3.5% on an annualized basis. This significant decline was contributed to by the drop in oil prices due to the ceasefire in the Iran war, which helped contain the rise in the cost of living for Americans, after three months of sharp increases due to the conflict launched in the Middle East by President Donald Trump last February.
Greta Thunberg is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known environmental activists on the planet. Since founding the Fridays for Future movement in 2018, the young Swede has become one of the most recognizable faces of the environmental movement and a figure capable of influencing political and social debate on a global scale. However, beyond her public persona, Greta’s personal life has always remained discreetly in the background. Although some details are known about her parents, producer Svante Thunberg and soprano Malena Ernman, few had paid attention to her younger sister, Beata Ernman, until now.
Summer has begun in l’Hospitalet de Llobregat with several prolonged power outages lasting hours that have affected thousands of residents of the second city of Catalonia. In this context, the City Council has held several meetings with Endesa, a company that this Tuesday presented a coke plan to try to solve the problem.
The historic agreement on Gibraltar is finally a reality. Spain, the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, and the European Union have signed the political pact they reached last year after many years of negotiations in an event at the European Commission. It is the last piece pending from Brexit, ten years after the British voted to leave the European Union, and it will have a very visible first consequence tomorrow: the disappearance of the fence, the physical barrier that separates the Rock from La Línea, crossed daily by 15,000 people.
If in recent months Ukraine has directed its swarms of drones against refineries, oil export ports, and other energy infrastructures inside Russia, now the attacks are focusing on the Sea of Azov. Their main objective is to disrupt the transport of fuel and oil of the so-called Russian “ghost fleet,” but it is also forcing Moscow to redirect maritime traffic so that its grain exports are not affected this summer.