The strike by forest firefighters in the Community of Madrid is causing the units of the 22 fire stations to have fewer personnel. Before, there was a unit with a truck and two or three forest firefighters in 19 stations. Now, none.
Three civil guards were injured this Wednesday when their patrol boat was rammed by a drug-running speedboat that was intercepted at Cabo Cope, in the municipality of Águilas, and whose two occupants have been arrested.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, who has been appointed as the highest authority in the unified command decreed in response to the Ceuta migration crisis, fully supports the version of his Interior counterpart, Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, regarding the lack of prior warnings before the border assault, a version that contradicts that offered by another government colleague, Defense Minister Margarita Robles, who on Tuesday stated that there had been prior communications from the CNI, although not sufficiently precise or urgent.
The Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, wishes to strengthen relations with the European Union and is considering whether his country could become an “associate member” of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal reported this Sunday.
The new Sant Jordi Club already has a face and shape, that of an immense multipurpose box 65 meters wide and 27 high – twice the current size – with an aesthetic similar to the Palau Sant Jordi and an outdoor space redesigned to facilitate access and invite people to approach the Montjuïc mountain. These are the main coordinates of the winning project of the competition for the renovation of the old facility, which will be carried out by the architecture firms Jorge Vidal and the Parisian Bruther with a budget of 70 million euros funded by BSM, manager of the Anella Olímpica, and 2029 as the planned inauguration date.
“Of what am I accused?”, asks the protagonist of The Trial. “Mr. K, you don’t mean to say you are innocent?”, they answer him. We still do not know what Pedro Sánchez is guilty of and perhaps we never will, when after a few years he gets out of prison, and I don’t know who will be free…
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has just announced, in his words, “the greatest oil deal in history” between his country and Venezuela. But what exactly does it consist of? Who benefits from this pact?
The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, has proposed granting Ukraine the status of an “associate member” of the European Union (EU) as an intermediate step towards membership, since full membership will take time, according to a letter he wrote to community leaders in Brussels that Reuters and AFP agencies accessed this Thursday. This would allow Ukrainian leaders to participate in EU summits and ministerial meetings, although without voting rights.
The units in charge of border control in Ceuta have recovered from the water the lifeless bodies of at least 12 people in the last 24 hours. There are already 40 foreigners found dead in Ceuta waters in the attempt to swim across from Morocco so far this year.
After twenty days sleeping outdoors, protected by neighborhood associations that have filled the gap left by the administrations, the unaccompanied minor migrants who entered Ceuta during the mass crossing are being housed in emergency centers. This is the first phase of a shock plan that the Ministry of Youth and Childhood, led by Sira Rego, says it is working on, which later includes, in weeks or months, a formula for NGOs to develop care in resources on the Peninsula, without the need to transfer guardianship of the adolescents to the autonomous communities. The figure handled by Childhood, although it may vary during the process, is around five hundred minors. From the Ceuta Government, which was caught by surprise by the announcement, they claim not to be aware of the possible transfer.
