Esther Niubó: “We have to redirect the situation to finish the course well”

Esther Niubó: “We have to redirect the situation to finish the course well”

The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, speaks with La Vanguardia one day after chairing the meeting between her department and the unions that have been holding a standoff in the streets for two months. Niubó defends the agreement, claiming that never before had 2 billion euros been put on the table for educational improvements. She believes there is room for agreements within it and assures that the Government will not leave the table until it is achieved.

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Nixon in China

Nixon in China

February 1972. First official trip of a President of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China. Richard Nixon lands in a China still immersed in the turbulences of the so-called Cultural Revolution; an agrarian-based country with a very precarious industrial infrastructure, internationally isolated, at odds with the USSR since Stalin’s death in 1953. A collectivized country where almost everyone rides a bicycle. A poor economy that barely represents 9% of the volume of the United States.

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Trapero calms the unrest among the Mossos and announces a change in the infiltration protocol

Trapero calms the unrest among the Mossos and announces a change in the infiltration protocol

The open crisis within the Mossos d’Esquadra due to the infiltration of two agents in a teachers’ assembly has forced the police director, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the senior officers of the force to meet with the mossos’ unions to calm tensions. Among the workers’ representatives, it was not well received that Trapero announced on Wednesday the opening of a confidential investigation that questioned the agents’ actions, who claim that they comply with current regulations.

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