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Ayuso returns to Sánchez to avoid the penthouse and regain the initiative

In the eye of the hurricane due to the failed acquisition of a luxury penthouse through a regional public company of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso starred this Monday in a new attempt to regain control of the agenda. She did so in the vineyards of the Las Moradas de San Martín winery, in San Martín de Valdeiglesias, where she traveled to stage the region’s recovery after the devastating fires suffered in July. Although the president did not hesitate to sideline regional issues to resort, once again, to her best-known formula: shifting the focus of the controversies of her own management towards Pedro Sánchez.

La Mierla: desolation and outrage over one of Spain’s biggest fires

Alen Craig2 months ago2 months ago04 mins

Desolation permeates the Sierra Norte Natural Park, in Guadalajara, which since last Friday (six days!) has been devoured by flames. More than 32,000 hectares have burned (these are estimates; until it is extinguished, the burned area cannot be reliably verified, forest agents clarify), a good part of one of Spain’s most beautiful and unknown natural spaces, mainly due to its proximity to Madrid, which always turns nearby regions into transit areas.

AI and the geopolitical crisis cause a rise in youth unemployment worldwide

Alen Craig1 month ago1 month ago04 mins

Around the world, young people are entering the labor market for the first time at a particularly challenging moment, marked both by the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of geopolitical tensions. After reaching its lowest level in two decades two years ago, the global youth unemployment rate rose by one-tenth in 2025, to 12.4%, according to the Global Employment Trends for Youth 2026: Back to the Future report, prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which publishes this study biennially. This amounts to about 67 million unemployed people aged 15 to 24 worldwide.

Children under 12 years old must be heard in processes that affect them

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago03 mins

The text has been kept in the drawer for months and, it seems, its time has finally come. The Council of Ministers is expected to approve today the expansion of the Comprehensive Protection Law for Children and Adolescents against Violence (LOPIVI), promoted by the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, which among other things, removes the 12-year age limit for minors to be heard obligatorily in processes that affect them.

Slight optimism over the evolution of the fire in Madrid, Ávila, and Toledo

Alen Craig2 months ago2 months ago05 mins

The large forest fires began yesterday to show slight signs of improvement in Ávila, Madrid, and Toledo, although the firefighting teams still have “very complex hours” ahead, after burning 77,000 hectares – with a perimeter of 280 km – and forcing the evacuation or confinement of nearly 95,000 people across the three provinces. Meanwhile, the fire in La Vall d’Uixò (Castellón) remains out of control. With this, the number of people evacuated or confined is now close to 136,000. After another day marked by flames and moderate optimism about their evolution, in the fires in central Spain alone, there are 65,096 evacuated and 29,867 confined. To these must be added the 41,000 affected in one way or another in Castellón.

Barça secures its talent: this is how the club’s structure changes to boost and protect La Masia

Alen Craig1 month ago1 month ago04 mins

“I feel Flick’s trust and I want to stay in Barça’s first team,” said Xavi Espart yesterday, a versatile right-back of 19 years who can also play as a defensive midfielder, a position with which, for example, he won the U-19 European Championship with Spain. “Being here is a great opportunity to earn a place in the first team,” agreed Álvaro Cortés, a 21-year-old center-back, beside him.

Ayuso’s infrastructures for the Pope’s visit: from the Royal House of the Post Office to Ifema

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago04 mins

The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso estimates that the Pope’s trip to Madrid, from June 6 to 9, will generate a return of between 90 and 120 million euros, according to the spokesperson of the regional Government, Miguel Ángel García Martín, who announced it yesterday. The Madrid Executive will use various infrastructures, both owned and contracted, during those days for the different meetings that the Pontiff will have with citizens and pilgrims coming from different parts of Spain and around the world.

The school year starts with strike, AI rules, and the PISA controversy

Alen Craig6 days ago6 days ago06 mins

The 2026-2027 school year starts this Tuesday in Catalonia as the previous one ended: with a strike. Despite the request from the councilor Esther Niubó to pause the protest for a normal return to classrooms, the major unions have decided to maintain the strike for the first day, acknowledging that it is a “particularly sensitive” day. That is why it is uncertain what the turnout for the protest will be. Some centers have decided not to join in order to prioritize the reunion of students and the educational community after the summer break. Others will resume the school year with protests from day one.

Long queues and supply restrictions in Moscow in the second wave of the gasoline crisis

Alen Craig4 weeks ago4 weeks ago05 mins

Moscow gas stations have resumed rationing gasoline supply this week as long lines begin to appear and authorities acknowledge the start of the “second stage” of the fuel shortage crisis due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. The Kremlin has had to redirect supplies from the provinces to the capital and import gasoline from other countries to stabilize the situation.

Treasury approves new financing backed by Catalonia and the Canary Islands but with 87% of communities rejecting it

Alen Craig1 week ago1 week ago04 mins

The Fiscal and Financial Policy Council approved this Friday the proposal to reform the regional financing model that would provide 21 billion more in resources to fund public services in the common regime communities. In the final vote, the Ministry of Finance received support from the councillors of Catalonia and the Canary Islands. It should be remembered that the framework of the reform is based on the investiture pact of the PSC with ERC to invest Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat. All the PP communities voted against it, precisely using that argument, that it is a measure previously agreed with an independentist party and, therefore, lacks consensus. Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias, governed by the PSOE, also voted against it. 87% of the autonomous communities oppose the Government’s proposal.

Jódar succumbs to Fritz’s craft in the Washington final

The Supreme Court before the European justice

The unanswered questions left by the trial against the Pujol family

Marc Casadó: “Leaving Barça is always complicated; we all have things to improve”

Sánchez convinces neither allies nor adversaries about his management in Ceuta

Finance summons the autonomous communities to meetings to agree on the reform of financing

Serbia will bury Ratko Mladić with honors, convicted of genocide in Bosnia

John Travolta receives a surprise Honorary Palme d’Or: “This is more than an Oscar”

The shadow of power in Cuba: Rodríguez Castro, the mysterious ‘crab’ who negotiates with the U.S.

Granada has suffered 348 earthquakes since Friday, 37 of them felt by the population