Catalonia is about to approve new budgets, if nothing goes wrong in the coming days. The news deserves to be highlighted because in the last fourteen years only five budgets have been approved in Catalonia: those of 2017, 2020, 2022, 2023, and this year….
Pep Guardiola’s cycle at Manchester City comes to an end. After ten years in charge and a historic record, the Sampedor native will announce his departure from the club in the coming days, according to various British media reported this Monday. Likewise, sources close to the Catalan coach told La Vanguardia that they do not deny the information. His official farewell would take place at the Etihad Stadium, coinciding with the last Premier League match against Aston Villa.
An excited Montserrat Torrent made her way this Monday through the half a thousand people who filled the Oratorio Sant Felip Neri after having realized the dream of her life: the musical baptism of the instrument that bears her name and whose construction has been delayed for six decades. “It has been extraordinary,” she said after offering a concert in dialogue with the poem that Narcís Comadira has dedicated to the new Montserrat Torrent organ. Surrounded by the performers who premiered the organ made by Albert Blancafort with her, the centenarian artist added: “There will be many concerts. There will be many joys.”
El Govern and Esquerra Republicana have reached an agreement for the 2026 budgets. After two months of negotiations, socialists and republicans have reached a pact by which Catalunya will have its first accounts since 2023. To stage this understanding, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, will sign the pact tomorrow at 8 a.m. in the Palau de la Generalitat.
The so-called trial of the century ended with Sam Altman’s victory over Elon Musk, two old friends and collaborators now at odds in the artificial intelligence ring.
The race in Junts for the mayoral candidate poster in Barcelona added a chapter this Monday that could be decisive in reaching an outcome with just over a year left until the municipal elections on May 23, 2027. Josep Rius, councilor of the post-convergent municipal group, as well as deputy and vice president of the party, announced that under the “current circumstances” he cannot run as a candidate. He had not officially presented himself, but all the predictions placed him as the favorite of the leadership of the formation led by Carles Puigdemont. On the other side of the scale is Jordi Martí, president of the municipal group, who officially announced his candidacy on Thursday although Junts had laid out various red carpets for him to clear the way for his benchmate.
The crisis at Indra continues, and now it does so with the departure of its CEO. José Vicente de los Mozos has stepped down as the top executive of the technology and defense group, which will require the search for a replacement.
ACS has undertaken an accelerated placement of shares in the market to raise around 1.8 billion euros to finance its growth, with the two main shareholders, Florentino Pérez and Criteria, contributing resources.
Donald Trump has discovered a toy called artificial intelligence. Either because he is an early riser, or because, things of age, he wakes up and instead of counting sheep he turns to AI, his midnights or dawns arrive loaded on his social network with images of futuristic war style, among many other themes, like those this Sunday where he appeared inside a spaceship pressing the red nuclear bomb button.
The Andalusian elections have left an especially harsh picture for the PSOE. Juanma Moreno’s Popular Party came close to an absolute majority, falling just two seats short of governing alone, while the socialists recorded one of the worst results in their history in a community that for decades was one of their major electoral strongholds. For Jaume Aroca, head of the Politics section at La Vanguardia, the scenario left after the polls reveals a deep crisis in Andalusian socialism: “The PSOE is absolutely decimated.”
