The law to restrict housing purchases in Catalonia continues its processing in the Parliament with a relevant new development: the PSC and ERC propose to limit its application only to large holders (five or more homes) and to companies (legal entities). This is reflected in the amendments that socialists and republicans have introduced on their own and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
The entry into force of the agreement between the European Union and Great Britain on the future of Gibraltar settles the last unresolved issue following Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from Europe six years ago.
The mayor of Ripoll is right. The controversy over the hiring of Sílvia Orriols’ daughter as an interim local police officer only aims to damage her image. And she is scrutinized in a way that others are not. Of course, placing family members, friends, and acquaintances is…
The list of FIFA’s mistakes is long and this World Cup is a new example. Balogun, hydration breaks, halftime shows… but Infantino and his henchmen don’t do everything wrong. In fact, there are some things others could learn from. When it comes to the final of a World Cup, the most important match that can be played, it’s not a matter of experimenting and playing around. Everyone gets serious. So before the showdown, the coaches and captains of the finalists must appear at a press conference. They are the most authoritative voices. And in New York, as far as Spain is concerned, that responsibility fell on Luis de la Fuente and Rodri Hernández.
Our colleague Jaume V. Aroca, currently dispatched to cover the Andalusian elections, explains in his reports that on the street there is hardly any sign of a campaign. People continue with their own business, more focused on their daily tasks than on rallies, debates, or walks of…
The Ukrainian navy, in a statement on the Facebook network, has acknowledged that the naval drone that exploded this morning around 10:30 a.m., local time, in the port of Constanta (Romania) belonged to its arsenal. The Romanian Ministry of Defense reported that the detonation caused no injuries, but did cause damage to infrastructure.
The concept of short king may be unfamiliar to many people. It is an expression that has become widespread on social media to celebrate a new form of masculinity, freer from prejudices and rigid aesthetic standards. Because although the pressure on appearance usually mainly affects women, there is a stigma that has pursued men since the beginning of time: height.
“You left me with the mother-in-law as a neighbor with the press at the door and the debt to the Treasury,” Shakira sang to Gerard Piqué after their separation. But none of that is real anymore, because the singer left Barcelona and moved away from the mother-in-law. And now the National Court has issued a ruling that exempts her from her famous tax debt and orders the Treasury to return 55 million euros to her. These are the key points of the long dispute between the Tax Agency and the Colombian artist:
There are golds that over time get lost in any box and silvers that are remembered forever. The eternal dichotomy between winning or leaving a mark, which many times do not go hand in hand. With that metaphor, the result of the last of the artistic swimming events at the European Championships in Paris is explained, the acrobatic, which crowned Russia on the podium, achieving a triple in the team events, but also brought Spain to the top in the memory of the synchro family.
A group of young Israeli settlers corners an ultra-Orthodox Jew in one of the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem: “traitor, coward, you are a disgrace to this country,” spits a teenager, dressed in loose clothing and the characteristic tzitzit, the four cords tied at the waist traditional of the Jewish religious attire. The crime of his compatriot is wearing one of the purple vests of the Standing Together association, dedicated to the peaceful protection of Palestinians against settler attacks in the West Bank.