With or without Santa Claus, more and more Christmas gifts will arrive at European homes through Arctic landscapes. But they will not come by reindeer, but on container ships chartered from China. Like the one that will set sail next Wednesday from Ningbo to reach the English port of Felixstowe twenty days later. Thus inaugurating the first weekly line of the Polar Silk Road.
The judge in Madrid who will try Alberto González Amador, partner of the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso, for tax fraud has communicated that given the “overload and circumstances weighing on the Court” the date for the trial is still pending, once the opening of the oral trial was already agreed upon for September 2025.
Division in the extraordinary plenary this Thursday at the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona, which will experience one of the tensest votes of this last term. The executive committee, the highest governing body of the institution chaired by Josep Santacreu, approved last week an agreement to increase the so-called silver seats from 2 to 10, and now it is the plenary that must decide whether to accept this measure or not. What is at stake is the number of board seats linked to a voluntary financial contribution and that have historically been held by major corporations relevant to the Catalan economy. The pro-independence candidacy Eines de País – which won the 2019 elections and lost the 2023 ones against Santacreu – opposes it, as does the Catalan employers’ association Pimec.
The institutional clash between the Executive and the Judiciary had a new chapter today following the agreement of the Government Chamber of the National Court, which unanimously decided to defend Judge María Tardón, responsible for studying a complaint about the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta at the end of July.
“Let Moreno Bonilla tremble this Sunday!”, warned the socialist José Antonio Carranza, mayor of the town of Pulianas in Granada, where the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held his penultimate rally of the Andalusian electoral campaign this Wednesday to support María Jesús Montero, before concluding his electoral tour for the 17-M next Friday in Seville.
The Prosecutor’s Office supports the partial pardon for the former Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz, convicted of a crime of disclosure of documents. The report has been submitted to the Supreme Court, which must now issue its own to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice for evaluation. The deputy prosecutor of the high court argues that the conviction has led the former number 1 of the public ministry to “intense and disproportionate extrapenal consequences.”
The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, reappeared this Wednesday night after his controversial press conference and did so to explain a little more about the electoral process that he is going to call. “Tomorrow (Thursday) the electoral board will begin the election procedures,” announced the president on La Sexta.
The Beni Enzar border, the only operational one between Spain and Morocco in Melilla, remains closed, according to the Government delegation in the autonomous city, which has asked the public not to go to the border perimeter in order not to hinder the work of the Security Forces and Corps.
Next year around this time, several candidacies will have already been presented for the North American presidential elections in November 2028. Campaigns are increasingly expensive and complex, and nothing can be left to chance.
Only four countries in Europe (Croatia, Slovakia, Greece, and Italy) record a higher age than Spain for leaving the family home and becoming independent. According to Eurostat data, this event occurs at 30 years old in Spanish households, far from the 21 years old when Finns, Danes, and Swedes do the same. The problems of access to housing and job insecurity cause only 15.2% of young people to be able to live in a home separate from their parents, as highlighted in the latest edition of the Emancipation Observatory of the Youth Council of Spain.