The standoff continues between Educació and teachers’ unions in Catalonia. Yesterday Thursday, after six hours of negotiation and 300 million more on the table, there was no agreement and the union representatives decided to lock themselves in the conselleria headquarters.
The shock of energy prices due to the Iranian conflict is beginning to claim its first victims. A report from Caixabank Research warns that the manufacturing industry risks weakening its growth, even sinking into stagnation. The intensity of energy consumption as well as dependence on foreign trade cause this sector to be the most sensitive to the international situation.
Cuba wants to end what it calls an “energy siege” and the United States wants the adoption of far-reaching reforms. Havana maintains that there is no ultimatum, but U.S. officials assure that Washington gave a two-week deadline to release relevant political prisoners as a sign of goodwill. The two countries, separated by less than one hundred kilometers of sea and ideological enemies, speak different languages and seem far from any agreement, but they are dialoguing.
Spain is a highly competitive market for supermarket chains that want to operate here. Under the shadow of Mercadona’s absolute leadership, the fight for market share is brutal and private label brands (commonly known as store brands) are a key tool to gain tenths each month. Thus, the latest report from Worldpanel by Numerator (formerly Kantar) on fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), which dominate supermarket shelves, points out that establishments that bet on these own brands in their assortments are improving their share more than their competitors.
20 years later, Real Madrid will carry out the ritual of democracy to choose its president in an election. Everything points, according to the deadlines established by the statutes of the white club, to June 7 as the day of the elections.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted this Thursday on calling for elections due to the corruption cases surrounding the Government and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, but he also warned that he will do “everything possible” to change the Government: “When I say everything, I mean everything.” Feijóo, in any case, avoided explicitly mentioning the motion of no confidence as a tool to change the Government, although he again appealed for the partners to take action.
It is now the turn of former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to give his explanations about his role in the so-called ‘Operation Kitchen’, a parapolice operation to steal documents about the PP’s slush fund from the party’s former treasurer Luis Bárcenas, who threatened to hand them over to the judge in the Gürtel case.
Who was one of the police commanders in the UDEF, when a decade ago the possible existence of a slush fund in the Popular Party was being investigated, has denied that pressure was applied to the investigative unit of the Gürtel Case to remove the name of the then Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, from their reports, as denounced two weeks ago by the head of those investigations, Chief Inspector Manuel Morocho. In the same courtroom of the National Court where the Kitchen Operation is being tried, the retired police officer, as a witness proposed by the defendants, also declared that there was never an order to dismantle the investigative group surrounding Génova, but quite the opposite: “They were always given the maximum support.”
On Tuesday a new heat wave will arrive that will last at least until Thursday, when it will reach its “peak,” bringing temperatures of up to 45 degrees and affecting the southeastern third, Guadalquivir valley, Ebro valley, northeastern depressions, Pyrenees valleys, and the interior of Mallorca. A mass of warm, dry air with suspended dust will also settle over much of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.
Isak Andic was 71 years old when on December 14, 2024, he died after falling from one of the Montserrat trails, which he was walking alone with his firstborn Jonathan. It was the first time in ten years that father and son went out for a walk together, according to the Mossos d’Esquadra after analyzing all the messages they exchanged in the last ten years and which the deceased kept religiously on his phone. Jonathan Andic, accused of his father’s homicide, told the police that these outings were “usual.” This statement was “denied” in the latest order signed by the judge of Martorell, Raquel Nieto, and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
