The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has criticized the statements of the director of the Eurovision Festival, Martin Green, about a possible return of Russia to the contest, and has warned that “they destroy the image of the competition and make Spain’s return more difficult.”
Isabel Díaz Ayuso completed seven years at the head of the Community of Madrid on Friday at the peak of her political power. When she was sworn in as president on August 14, 2019, she needed the votes of Ciudadanos to push forward a coalition government that was already expected to be turbulent. Seven years later, she has absorbed the now-defunct orange party, reduced Vox – an indispensable partner in the 2021 elections – to irrelevance, and achieved an absolute majority in 2023 that allows her to govern without negotiating with anyone. The political phenomenon built around her figure seemed to have reached the status of an impregnable regime.
Europe needs more shared infrastructure, more scale, and more strategic vision if it wants to remain a relevant player in the global digital economy. Connectivity, network resilience, and investment capacity in telecommunications are no longer just technical issues: they are part of industrial competitiveness and its autonomy in increasingly critical sectors.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has at his disposal telephone interceptions and WhatsApp messages sent between the top executives of the airline Plus Ultra and the network allegedly led by former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. These conversations now point to the former socialist leader, as stated in the order accessed by La Vanguardia.
Rocío Cortés, former mayor of Requena, a town flooded by the October 29 flood in which there were no victims, has stated in court that “in Requena there were no deaths or injuries because the population was warned.”
The municipal government of Valladolid, formed by the coalition between the Popular Party and Vox, has excluded victims of gender-based violence as beneficiaries of social rental housing. The measure, which was announced in May and also increased the minimum years of registration, seeks to extend the criterion reserved for victims of sexist violence to all those who have suffered violence in the family environment.
Five people died and 41 others are still being searched for this Sunday in Indonesia after a fire broke out on a ferry with more than 200 passengers in the middle of the sea in the East Java province, about 700 kilometers east of Jakarta, authorities from the archipelago reported.
Almost all autonomous communities under the common regime are halting the tax cuts they approved in previous years. The years are coming to an end when the prevailing trend was to approve reductions in transferred taxes, such as in the IRPF, inheritance and donations, or wealth tax. The current trend is quite the opposite, warns the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (Airef) in its latest report. The only exception is Madrid, which continues to increase its tax reductions.
The long list of more than twenty senior Pentagon officials who have resigned or been dismissed in the past year added a new name this Monday: Daniel Driscoll, the United States Army Secretary, has left the position after 18 months in office. The resignation occurs in a context of growing internal tensions in the Department of Defense, both due to the purge initiated by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year and because of the duration and decisions made in the Iran war, which has already lasted more than half a year and has caused shortages in the U.S. arsenal.
At the beginning of the week, the lawsuit against the Departament de Territori was made public, and yesterday, the defense of the neighbors affected by the sinkhole in Sant Gervasi-la Bonanova announced that the legal case will also be sent to the Barcelona City Council. In both cases, for not having controlled the work carried out underground by the temporary joint venture in the tunnel of metro line 9.