A human tsunami arrived on July 30 at El Tarajal beach in Ceuta, leaving thousands of clothing items, flip-flops, and personal belongings, but also a giant political crisis that is eating away at Pedro Sánchez’s government, and a question that no one has answered yet: where and how does the wave begin?
Sílvia Orriols has turned the Parliament chamber into her most effective set. She does not participate in committees and disappears when other groups question the Government. They don’t interest her. Orriols makes the most of her five minutes of confrontation with the President of the Generalitat and is
The Court of Auditors notes deficiencies in the money laundering control systems in Spain and urges the Government to launch a national strategy and provide more resources to the body responsible for this activity, Sepblac.
As happened in 2001, when Florentino Pérez first became president of Real Madrid, an urban reclassification that has already been approved by the City Council could provide the white club with a series of extraordinary revenues starting in 2031.
You may have seen it, perhaps, that message that has received countless likes on social media. “For the first time in history, you can simply post ‘HE IS AN IDIOT’ and 90 percent of the world will know who you are talking about.” Hahaha. Very good. But the idiot also has reasons to…
Employers’ organizations have long warned that one of the main problems of the lack of competitiveness of the Spanish economy is the high level of work absenteeism. Pimec published a report last January focused on Catalonia that pointed out that sick leaves
Víctor de Aldama had to prove before the Supreme Court that he is telling the truth; it is his lifeline to have his collaboration with justice and repentance recognized and to achieve a considerable reduction of the sentence. To do this, he had to betray former minister José Luis Ábalos and his loyal squire Koldo García. And he did. Eight hours of testimony in which he recounted how he was paying them a kind of salary of 10,000 euros per month, in addition to other gifts including rents, vacations, apartments, motorcycles, cars, and even medical treatments, totaling between three and a half and four million. These amounts were qualified, but the estimate of what the former minister and his advisor received would be that, according to the commission agent’s version. The money did not all come out of his pocket. Aldama put in part, and other companies seeking contracts – with which he acted as a link – paid the rest. Part went to the minister and the advisor and another part to the PSOE, always according to his version.
At least six people were injured this Wednesday as a result of a gas leak that led to a large flare-up at the Plaça de Sants metro station in Barcelona, at the connection point between lines L1 and L5. According to La Vanguardia, the injured are operators who were working to control the leak.
“Dying didn’t matter to me, but stopping making violins…”. The phrase perfectly defines its author, David Bagué (Barcelona, 1964), considered one of the best luthiers in Spain and with the greatest international projection. Beyond having a Creu de Sant Jordi, which is no small thing, the Vienna Philharmonic has three of his instruments (two violins and a cello) and Leonidas Kavakos, one of the best violinists in the world, owns between four and five of his violins. However, at the age of 28 (now he is 61), Bagué began a ordeal that almost took away what he loves most in this life and which is his reason for being: making violins. He was diagnosed with Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare disease from the group of systemic vasculitis, which recently had its world day.
The Constitutional Court will deliberate on September 22 for the first time on the pending appeals for protection due to the Supreme Court’s refusal to apply the Amnesty law to the leaders of the ‘procés’ who were convicted of embezzlement.