Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney illustrated his approach to Europe during his trip this week to the Old Continent, while his compatriots increasingly embrace the idea of joining the European Union (EU), an idea that not long ago seemed an aberration just to consider.
An excited Montserrat Torrent made her way this Monday through the half a thousand people who filled the Oratorio Sant Felip Neri after having realized the dream of her life: the musical baptism of the instrument that bears her name and whose construction has been delayed for six decades. “It has been extraordinary,” she said after offering a concert in dialogue with the poem that Narcís Comadira has dedicated to the new Montserrat Torrent organ. Surrounded by the performers who premiered the organ made by Albert Blancafort with her, the centenarian artist added: “There will be many concerts. There will be many joys.”
The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with advanced stage melanoma. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.
The person who is admitted for observation in the isolation unit of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona for being identified as a contact of a hantavirus case has tested negative in the second PCR test, the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia reported in a statement this Saturday night.
The European Commission continues to take action to tackle the housing crisis in the European continent. In addition to proposing a legal framework to protect public administrations that want to limit temporary tourist rentals and second homes, Brussels accompanies this regulation with a series of non-binding recommendations to member states when fighting against this problem that affects a large part of the cities in the bloc and to increase supply in areas under residential pressure.
The two detainees for the homicides in Tauste (Zaragoza) of the former secretary of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Aragon (UAGA), Javier Sánchez, and his wife, Esther Latorre, one of their daughters and her partner, have been sent to provisional prison after appearing this Thursday before the judicial authority in Ejea de los Caballeros and refusing to testify.
“After her passing, I still can’t fully calm down. Yayoi Kusama left so many works of art and memories… I feel that she is here, now. She shared her entire life with us through her work. We saw her passion for art, her determination to achieve ambitious goals, her fighting spirit and bravery, her loneliness and anxiety. And her sense of humor. Above all, she shared her eternal love and soul. A single dot represented billions of love and life. And the world today is full of hundreds of dots.” The words of Takako Fujibayashi, from Yayoi Kusama’s studio, receive a great round of applause. It is the press presentation of an exhibition that was going to celebrate Kusama’s long and exceptional life at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. And now, after the artist’s dissolution into the cosmos on August 14 at the age of 97, it celebrates a visionary, a pioneer, of minimalism, radical performance, immersive installations.
In October 2023, Isak Andic turned 70, the minimum age to join the VESP group (Veteran Entrepreneurs Well Prepared), created in Barcelona by Juan Echevarría Puig. They met regularly and each meeting was organized by a club member. On February 20, 2024, the president of Mango attended his second meeting at the Mutua Universal headquarters.
The spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, warned this Tuesday that they will not give “a single vote” to the Government if Catalonia is not excluded from the transfer to the autonomous communities of unaccompanied minor migrants who arrived in Ceuta during last week’s migration crisis.
The impact of the DANA on October 29 is measured not only in mud but also in unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the disaster struck more than 54,000 companies and put the livelihood of over 190,000 workers at risk, affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10,000 shops and local businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero area demands a specialized workforce that the current market cannot supply.