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 arrest of Jonathan Andic, eldest son of Isak Andic, the owner of Mango who died in December 2024 after falling off a cliff in the Montserrat mountain, has created a lot of expectation, especially after the judge in the case charged him with an alleged homicide and released him on bail of one million euros. The judge’s order provides evidence pointing to the detainee as the author of his father’s death while they were walking in the mountains.
The popularization of aesthetic treatments with fillers, the increasing use of drugs like Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonists, or even everyday gestures such as constantly leaning towards the mobile phone, are shaping a new physiognomy of the contemporary face. It is increasingly common to observe signs of sagging at early ages, in a context where concern about appearance is skyrocketing.
Human-caused climate change multiplied by 20 the conditions favorable for wildfires in the central peninsula this year. In other words, it made the extreme weather conditions that fueled these fires 20 times more likely than in a preindustrial world without warming. And in the case of the southwest region of France hit by the fires, climate change caused by human activities now makes disasters of this magnitude twice as likely.
La Fundació Vila Casas, founded in 1988 by the Catalan patron of art and health Antoni Vila Casas (1930-2023), is engaged in an ongoing legal dispute with its former general director and manager, Joan Torras Ragué. The entity has filed a criminal complaint attributing to Torras the alleged commission of three crimes: breach of trust, embezzlement, and document falsification. Allegedly, the defendant unlawfully appropriated around 400,000 euros in just a year and a half, according to the complaint obtained by La Vanguardia.
“You have won with gallantry; when Spain plays, we all play. You have fought for it, with head and heart, and you have achieved it.” With these words, the King has congratulated the players of the Spanish national football team who, this Monday, have begun hours of celebration that continue at the Moncloa, where Pedro Sánchez receives them, and will culminate in the Plaza de Cibeles, after the parade through the streets of Madrid.
An old saying goes that “the eve tells the tale of the day,” and judging by how crowded the hall and garden of the Alma hotel were, the crystal ball predicted a magnificent Sant Jordi last night. Patrici Tixis, communications director of Grupo Planeta, predicted a “spectacular” Diada, giving voice to a unanimous premonition among the publishers, agents, and booksellers who attended La Vanguardia’s party, a “glorious” Book Day due to the convergence of two factors: a working day and benign weather.
Around 6 p.m. on Friday, July 31, the fire that broke out last Saturday in Vall d’Uixó (Castellón) was declared stabilized. The provincial fire consortium reports that there is still “a lot of work ahead, but it is time to acknowledge the entire operation that has made it possible to stabilize the fire.” Officially, the fire has devastated 9,568 hectares until its boundaries could be established and its advance prevented.
Officials of the airline Plus Ultra sought ways to halt the investigation opened regarding the company’s bailout with 53 million euros from the Government. One of them was the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
La Policía Nacional has carried out this Saturday morning the first random checks on flights coming from Italy at the airports of Barcelona and Madrid. However, the situation at El Prat was absolutely normal on this second Saturday of August, since of the various flights arriving from the transalpine country in the morning, only one coming from Rome and another from Milan that landed at noon had an additional check by the agents of the National Police Corps (CNP).
