The unions Ustec, CGT, CNT, COS and Intersindical, meeting urgently this afternoon, have decided that they will call a strike for next Tuesday, the 9th, coinciding with the Pope’s visit to Barcelona, as some of these organizations already announced yesterday. However, for now, no further strike days will be proposed.
El Partido Popular already managed to provoke the irritation of the governments of Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron, by blocking a week ago in the Senate the friendship treaty that both leaders sealed at the Hispano-French summit held in Barcelona on January 19, 2023. And now some controversial words from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – in which he pointed out that the French national football team is playing the World Cup, in his opinion, “without French players” – have the effect of lighting a match on a barrel of dynamite.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has repeatedly praised the relationship and cooperation in all areas with the Kingdom of Morocco following the migration crisis unleashed in Ceuta since July 30 and has raised to 1,898 the number of minors who still remain in the autonomous city and have been registered.
The world, once again on tenterhooks: the two-week ceasefire agreed by Iran and the United States concludes on Wednesday, and for now the possibility of extending the truce seems remote.
Food manufacturers and supermarkets are starting to assume they won’t be able to keep containing prices much longer. After weeks of cushioning the impact of rising energy costs, companies warn that the effort has limits and that, if current tensions persist, the transfer to the shopping basket will be inevitable.
Doctors and medical professionals from the Community of Madrid resume this Monday the third week of an indefinite strike called to show their rejection of the Framework Statute agreement reached between the Ministry of Health and several unions and to demand their own text for the collective that recognizes the singularities of these professionals.
One week after the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta, the authorities and NGOs are working to identify the minors who remain in the autonomous city, many of them on the street and without shelter, at the mercy of the help they receive from organizations, administrations, and neighbors, who have also organized to collaborate.
The powerful weather phenomenon El Niño threatens to push 49 million more people into acute hunger in some of the regions most vulnerable to its effects by the end of 2027, reaching 274 million people, according to a report by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Of the 45 countries analyzed, the most affected regions are expected to be southern Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, with a considerable increase in the number of people facing food insecurity.
Today Spain plays its final to win the Football World Cup. Beyond technical criteria, for years there have been several studies attempting to establish some correlation between sport and the economy. In their famous 2004 research on the Olympic Games, Who wins the Olympic Games, economists Andrew B. Bernard and Meghan R. Busse demonstrated that a nation’s total GDP — which combines the size of its population with its per capita wealth — is the best predictor of sporting success. The thesis is that money buys infrastructure, technology, and coaches, while the population provides the critical mass necessary for natural sporting talent to emerge. What do the data from this World Cup say?
Increasing unease over the Ebola outbreak in the heart of Africa. The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed today his “deep concern” over the “speed and magnitude” of the epidemic that emerged on April 24 in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo and has already recorded cases in highly populated cities such as Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, and even in the capital of neighboring Uganda, Kampala.
