In the midst of World Cup fever, the luxury industry finds in the world of football a place to take shelter and to connect with. This was evidenced this Tuesday by the Spanish brand Loewe when announcing its collaboration as an official partner of the Spanish national football teams.
The Crown Prince Haakon of Norway caused concern on Tuesday when speaking about the health of his wife, Princess Mette-Marit, after the Abel Prize in Mathematics was awarded in Oslo. “The Crown Princess is seriously ill, and I have the impression that her condition has deteriorated significantly lately,” Harald V’s son responded to media questions about the chronic pulmonary fibrosis his wife suffers from.
The workers of the Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona have started an indefinite strike this Tuesday to protest the lack of progress in the negotiation process with the City Council regarding their working conditions, and 37 of the 40 centers in the city have not opened; only the libraries of Collserola-Josep Miracle, Canyelles-M. Àngels Rivas, and Joan Miró have remained operational.
Last week’s alarms due to recent incursions into the airspace have further frightened the Baltic countries, on the front line against the Russian threat. The Kremlin is weakened on the Ukrainian battlefront, but the recent episodes in Latvia and Lithuania, which had to declare a country-wide alert following new drone appearances, have put the spotlight on these three small nations on the EU’s eastern flank, which are preparing for more buzzes of modern warfare in their airspace and are calling for Brussels’ involvement to put a stop to it. The message is that the Baltic border is also the EU’s border and, therefore, must be treated as a community matter.
The board of directors of Indra has appointed Josep Maria Recasens as the new CEO of the company this Tuesday, replacing José Vicente de los Mozos, who leaves the position after three years and after working with as many presidents. The appointment comes at the proposal of the Appointments Committee, which spent last week selecting its candidate for the position.
The slogan “no to war” can take on different variations, such as “no to hunger.” The first stop on Pedro Sánchez’s trip to Rome was a conference of the FAO, the United Nations agency for food, headquartered in the Italian capital, titled “Food Security and Nutrition Under Pressure: Consequences of the Conflict in the Middle East.”
José María Aznar has also wanted to comment on the indictment of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged corruption crimes in the Plus Ultra case. The former Prime Minister has stated that in the “unsustainable” situation that Spain is going through, his phrase that “those who can, should do” “makes more sense than ever.”
Union disunity worsens this Tuesday in Valencia with tensions over the salary agreement that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities reached yesterday with the CSIF and ANPE unions. STEPV, CCOO-PV, and UGT-PV, who did not sign the agreement yesterday, wanted to know if the review according to the CPI agreed for the last salary increase established in the agreement – 50 euros in 2028, after the 75 euros increase in July 2027 and the other 75 euros in January 2027 – and the regional Secretary of Education, Daniel McEvoy, clarified it right at the start of this afternoon’s new negotiating table meeting, making it clear that the 2028 CPI review will be made “on the total of the 200 euros and not on the last 50, thus attending to the request of the trade union organizations.” Now the non-signatories can choose between joining or denouncing the agreement.
Israeli troops advance northward in Lebanon, beyond the ‘yellow line,’ the imaginary border designated by Tel Aviv that until now marked the front against the Hizbulah militia.
The indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged influence peddling in the Plus Ultra case brings to the table a debate that has not been resolved in Spain: what can former presidents do to make a living when they leave Moncloa? The reality today is that they can basically do the same as any other citizen, but with a much larger network of contacts and a greater capacity for influence. The statute of former presidents is regulated by a minimal royal decree, which does not impose any obligations, incompatibilities, or restrict their private activities, beyond the legal limits that apply to any citizen. And that nebulous area in which they remain is certainly an advantage, but also a risk.