After signing the first budget agreement with the Government of Salvador Illa, the president of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, has defended the pact reached because it fulfills -in his opinion- a “double function.” On one hand, because it resolves the “everyday problems” of Catalonia with budget allocation and, on the other, because it provides the opportunity to “achieve more powers and tools in favor of the country.”

United States intelligence agents have likely played a decisive role in placing José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the conveyor belt of major scandals, from which few, very few, come out unscathed. It is no secret. It is stated in the order of the…

It is the third week that I have to talk about Ceuta and I would like not to have to do it again for a long time. Not because I have nothing to say about Ceuta, a city I have visited on several occasions, but because it would be a sign that the very serious crisis this city is experiencing…

Los Mossos d’Esquadra charged around 18:00 to contain the advance of antifascist demonstrators, who tried to access the Fossar de les Moreres, where the president of AC, Sílvia Orriols, is scheduled to make a floral offering supported by supporters of her party. According to 3cat, the action resulted in at least four arrests.

In his end-of-political-course assessment, Pedro Sánchez celebrated last Tuesday the recent endorsement by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) of the Amnesty law: “It has confirmed that we acted in accordance with the law to promote reconciliation.” “It was a brave but necessary decision that allows us to look to the future together again,” he emphasized. He even stressed that “a success of the Amnesty law is that the PP and Junts are reunited, nothing more and nothing less.” However, the President of the Government said nothing in his appearance about the fact that the Council of Ministers had just approved, in its last meeting before the August break, granting a partial pardon to Laura Borràs, which will prevent the former president of the Parliament of Catalonia from going to prison, as later revealed by the Ministry of Justice.

Return is the word that best explains the new direction of the Government in Ceuta: that of the adults who still remain in the city, that of the minors when circumstances allow – since their return requires greater guarantees and a specific procedure – and, above all, that of normality. Because Moncloa’s priority is no longer so much to manage the crisis opened on July 30 and 31 as to close it.