The Comuns MEP Jaume Asens has been discharged from the hospital after receiving a kidney from his mother in a successful transplant operation, as he himself explained on the social network Instagram.
The PSC brought to debate this Thursday a motion in the Parliament in which they condemn the Islamophobic and xenophobic chants that occurred in the Spain-Egypt match on March 31 at the RCDE Stadium. One of the regrettable messages heard was “muslim who doesn’t jump,” a chant that Vox has defended from the Catalan Chamber’s podium. The ultra party deputy, Alberto Tarradas, asked “what is wrong with this phrase that comes from the spontaneity and joy of the people.” And he did not stop there. Tarradas pronounced this expression and added that he did not jump to “maintain a certain decorum,” but that his entire group “jumps.”
The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imaz, has accused the market and competition regulator, CNMC, of “not doing its job” when it comes to identifying those responsible for the blackout that Spain suffered on April 28, 2025. “The regulator has chosen to spread confusion and open investigations into all companies for situations that are not even related to what happened with the blackout, and the only thing that has done is create confusion,” he said during the conference with analysts that the executive held this Thursday to present the company’s first-quarter results.
The number of Catalan schools and institutes that have decided not to schedule trips or school camps for the 2026/27 academic year as a pressure measure to achieve educational improvements continues to increase. The platform that counts the centers that have joined the claim is about to reach 800: There are already 771, to be exact. All this continues to add uncertainty about what will happen with this activity in the next academic year.
West of the Greek island of Crete, in waters of international jurisdiction -according to Greece-, and 1,100 kilometers from Gaza, the Israeli armed forces intercepted on Wednesday night at least 22 of the 57 vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which were heading with humanitarian aid to the Palestinian strip, according to reports from the flotilla and Israel. The Israeli Foreign Minister stated that about 175 activists have been detained, who are being transferred to the Hebrew country.
The giant TotalEnergies has yielded to political pressure and announced this Thursday, on the eve of the May Day holiday, that it is extending the fuel price cap “while the crisis in the Middle East lasts,” at the 3,300 service stations it owns in France.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided, as planned, to keep the cost of money with the deposit interest rate at 2%, for the sixth consecutive time since June 2025. The entity does not consider that the current economic disturbances, with a resurgence of inflation due to the energy crisis following the Iran war, justify at this time implementing a more restrictive monetary policy.
Surrender or die. Last Saturday, the fewer than 400 Russian soldiers defending the military base in Kidal, the symbolic city of the Tuareg in northern Mali, had to choose between life or a retreat smelling of failure. They chose to live.
Tonight the campaign for the election of the future government of the Junta de Andalucía begins. Its result closes the electoral cycle started in December and will cast a long shadow over the remainder of the legislature.
Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, filed last Wednesday afternoon with the National Police her announced complaint against activist Vito Quiles for what happened just a few hours earlier in a restaurant in Las Rozas (Madrid), according to sources from Moncloa reported to La Vanguardia.