The National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) approved on Monday a report that represents a setback for Aena’s investment plan for the period between 2027 and 2031. The regulator recommends a reduction of airport fees by 0.59% annually, compared to the airport manager’s proposal, which advocates increasing them by 3.8% per year to undertake, among other things, the expansion of El Prat airport.
Billionaire magnate Elon Musk has once again lashed out at the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, whom he has accused of “high treason” over the extraordinary regularization process for immigrants that begins this Monday.
What seemed like just another eccentric character on social media has ended up alerting the authorities of a country for taking advantage of a legal loophole to become “king.” Jona Lauwiner (31) is a young technician who in 2019 proclaimed himself king of Switzerland and organized a coronation in a church for it. With cape, crown, and all.
Just turned 19, Lamine Yamal appeared before the media ahead of the World Cup semifinal between France and Spain in Dallas, and before addressing the match, he made his position clear regarding the controversy sparked by Mariano Rajoy about the French internationals.
Josep Lluís Trapero resigned this Tuesday as general director of the Police of Catalonia after two years in office. The major of the Mossos d’Esquadra steps aside in his role as the political head of the police after two complex years, marked by the fight against repeat offenders, the introduction of video surveillance cameras, the crackdown on knives in the streets, and some controversies such as those arising from Mossos infiltrated in teachers’ assemblies and the initiative to introduce police officers in schools. Trapero was Salvador Illa’s star signing and his name was already announced during the PSC electoral campaign.
Retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo spoke with the former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez about alleged payments of “10,000 euros every month” that the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas would have made to the former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
The firefighters are working to extinguish a new fire in the north of Collserola, declared this Tuesday afternoon near the Canyelles neighborhood, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. The fire is located above the Alta de Roquetes road heading towards Sant Cugat. A large column of smoke is visible from different points in the city.
The philosophy of prioritizing the European lands in the technological sphere. The European Commission has developed an ambitious technological sovereignty package with which it aims to try to reverse the enormous structural dependence that the European Union has on foreign digital products and services. Especially, from the U.S. and China. The set of legislative measures —which still requires the approval of the European Parliament and the Twenty-Seven— introduces a series of new criteria that could exclude Silicon Valley giants, such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, from highly sensitive public tenders. For example, those that handle the most critical public data of the community countries.
The demonstration of intelligence that Verónica, a Swiss Brown cow specimen, showed in January made the scientific community reflect. Verónica became the first cow recorded using a tool: a stick that allowed her to reach parts of her body she could not scratch. Researchers from the National Institute for Agricultural Research, Food, and Environment of France observed the phenomenon and considered studying the memory of cows. Specifically, whether they could “discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces.”
The Bombers of the Generalitat are working with more than 70 teams and 200 personnel this Sunday afternoon on a new forest vegetation fire in the Vall d’Infern, in Aiguamúrcia (Tarragona), which forces the confinement of the population centers of Ranxos de Bonany, Bon Any, Valldossera, Can Llenes, Mas Gassons, El Mas Vermell, and Pontons. The fire is advancing strongly and already affects about 80 hectares of forest land in the terms of Aiguamúrcia and Querol (Alt Camp) and Pontons (Alt Penedès).
