Half-hearted contrition for the infiltration of agents from the Mossos de Esquadra information police station in a teachers’ union assembly. Neither mea culpa nor chest beating. The interior minister, Núria Parlon, and the director general of the Police, Josep Lluís…
No agreement and a new meeting next Tuesday. The sectoral table meeting between the Minister of Education and Vocational Training of the Generalitat, Esther Niubó, and the unions -Ustec·Stes, Aspepc·Sps, CC.OO. Educació, CGT Ensenyament, and UGT, with Intersindical added- ended without agreement but with the commitment to resume talks next Tuesday. The meeting was supposed to address issues such as resources for inclusive schooling and teachers’ salaries.
The Prime Minister of Latvia, Evika Siliņa, has resigned this Thursday after her coalition government has been shaken in recent weeks following a collateral incident of the war in Ukraine.
The war in Iran has left the Gulf countries in a very delicate situation. The missiles and drones launched by Tehran in the first weeks of the conflict have shattered their image as an oasis of stability, while the blockade of Hormuz threatens to ruin their economy, which is highly dependent on crude oil exports.
Wes Streeting, British Secretary of Health and representative of the right wing of the Labour Party, has resigned to, presumably, run as an alternative to the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
Just minutes after the first meeting of the summit between China and the United States began, Xi Jinping issued a warning to Donald Trump about Taiwan. If Washington mishandles the issue of the island, he told him, the two countries could enter into “a situation…
The long-awaited summit between China and the U.S. kicked off this Thursday in Beijing, with apparent harmony between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump. Despite the commercial focus, the shadow of Iran and Taiwan looms over the meeting from the start. Xi, in fact, pointed out that the Taiwan issue is the most important in the relationship between China and the U.S.: “This will be stable if handled well, otherwise there will be clashes and even conflicts, which will pose a great danger.”
Every day more and more gastronomic festivals dedicated to a single food are proliferating in Madrid, be it the hamburger, pizza, grilled red meat, or rice dishes. During the upcoming weekend, the VII Edition of the Calsotada Fest will be held in Las Rozas, where the calçot becomes the star of the celebration.
Manuel Villar is the deputy mayor of Alicante and the person appointed to chair the commission that, by unanimous decision of the municipal plenary, was established to try to clarify the circumstances that led to the irregular awarding of public housing in Alicante. Yesterday, in response to questions from this newspaper, after four sessions of a commission in which only one retired official has testified, Villar admitted that it will be the ongoing judicial investigation that clarifies what happened. Because although he maintains that the government team is doing the right thing, he did not even commit his own cooperation: Villar assured that he will appear – it would be strange for the president of the commission to be absent only to not appear – because Vox has requested it, but then he stated that “it is another matter whether I will respond.”
The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Carmen Ortí, has asked the educational unions to return to the negotiating table and has called them to a new meeting this Thursday at 9 a.m., with the aim of moving towards an agreement for the entire Valencian educational system.