The Ministry of Health has estimated the impact on Madrid’s healthcare system of the doctors’ and specialists’ strike for a Framework Statute since December at more than 16.4 million euros, with more than 10,470 surgeries and 215,344 consultations suspended.

Traffic disruptions due to the visit of Pope Leo XIV to Madrid from June 6 to 9 will begin very significantly at midnight with the occupation of Plaza de Lima, so that traffic will only be allowed around the roundabout and with certain limitations, the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, reported yesterday. The traffic closures due to the Pope’s visit will cause circulation problems for several days. Therefore, last week Almeida recommended teleworking.

Just two years shy of reaching its centenary, the massive festival of the Hogueras de San Juan spreads across all districts of the city of Alicante. There are 92 existing committees, but some neighborhoods still maintain a calm during the celebration of the great ceremony of gunpowder and fire that keeps them isolated from the festive bustle, among them, La Albufereta.

It is hard to believe that, at this point and after years of mobilization by a large part of civil society – yesterday it was the Consell Valencià de Cultura – the Corts Valencianes have not been able to appoint the regional deputies responsible for defending in the Cortes Generales the…

The Consell Jurídic Consultiu (CJC) has made up to five essential observations on the regulations for traditional bullfighting festivities being prepared by the Generalitat Valenciana. The advisory body proposes a series of changes to the executive of Juanfran Pérez Llorca and expresses its doubts about the possibility that the Generalitat, through the Conselleria de Educación, establishes transversal curricular elements or specific subjects on Valencian identity signs and traditional values that refer to the bous al carrer. It would be the educational centers, within the framework of their educational project, that would specify this offer.

A total of 234,000 vehicles, 78% of the 300,000 expected, have returned to the Barcelona area by 8 p.m. this Monday, in the first eight hours of the return operation of the Second Easter holiday, on a day in which traffic jams of up to 17 kilometers have been recorded on the AP-7.