It’s not every day you get to speak with someone who has privileged knowledge of their subject and knows much more than they say, which is already quite a lot. A Vatican correspondent for many years, he knows like no one else the complexity of the Church and the power struggles hidden within it. He is very aware that he is facing a reality for which simplistic analyses are not valid.
“Where’s the queue?” asked a desperate father accompanied by his daughters in Girona’s Devesa park this morning. He was running around like a headless chicken trying to guess the end of an endless line. His sight couldn’t reach any further, and the distress on his face was more than palpable.
The ”la Caixa” Foundation strengthens its role as one of the major drivers of biomedical research in Europe with the launch of the CaixaResearch Institute, a project that synthesizes over 120 years of commitment to health, science, and talent. Since its origin in 1904, driven by Francesc Moragas, until today under the presidency of Isidro Fainé, the entity has maintained a social vocation aimed at improving the quality of life, with special attention to the most vulnerable groups.
Workers from the Margarida Xirgu and Eugeni d’Ors institutes in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès) gathered this Monday outside these centers to reject the Government’s plan to deploy plainclothes Mossos d’Esquadra to reduce conflict.
Hundreds of expedition members are waiting for the gigantic and unstable block of ice, which prevents a minimally safe route from being traced through the Khumbu Glacier to Everest Camp 1 in Nepal, to collapse. The official team of Sherpas who inspected the area in the last few hours has concluded that it is not prudent to proceed with equipping the itinerary until the serac collapses, according to Everest Today. In an effort to find a solution as soon as possible, the prominent guide Mingma G has announced that a group of Sherpas from his company, Imagine Nepal, and other agencies has explored a possible alternative route in the Khumbu to Camp 1, which they could not complete due to adverse weather conditions.
Nissan announced this Monday to the unions its intention to initiate an ERE (employment regulation file) that will affect its three centers in Catalonia: the technical center in Barcelona’s Zona Franca, the spare parts center in El Prat, and the flexible areas center – such as human resources or prevention – also in El Prat. The exact impact will be known in the coming weeks as negotiations progress, but the impact is greater than what the unions feared a few days ago, which pointed mainly to the spare parts center. In total, 569 people work in these centers. With this measure, Nissan deepens its industrial exit from Catalonia, where it closed its car assembly plant in 2021. Today the plant is occupied by Ebro.
Vox, with its national priority, is advancing its narrative, but is awaiting the Andalusian result and event.
The chairman of Banc Sabadell, Josep Oliu, resigns as a director of the Puig Brands perfumery and beauty group seven months before his term ended, according to consulted sources. The same sources explained that the departure is voluntary and given the proximity of the expiration date of his position as proprietary director. He had held the position since 2002.
Princess Leonor leaves her military uniform to begin her university stage. Next academic year, she will begin her Political Science studies, which will make her a student at Carlos III University of Madrid, where she will remain for the next four years until she obtains her degree. Zarzuela made public a statement this Monday explaining the heiress’s choice and her study plan.
If it were a Broadway musical or a theatrical show, the luminous neon signs of Times Square and 42nd Street would proclaim “Charles III’s most complex and dangerous journey,” that “the king is going to Washington at the lowest point in bilateral relations in almost a century,” “he will use his charm to try to tame Trump,” “he runs the risk of being humiliated,” or “his life depends on a Secret Service that has allowed three assassination attempts.”