The United States once thought of turning Germany into an agricultural and livestock country, without an industrial pulse, with the aim of preventing its rearmament forever. Eighty years later, the United States is pushing Germany towards rearmament. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a sponsor in the 1940s of a pastoral Germany, would be horrified today.
The former minister Jaume Giró has definitively broken with Junts per Catalunya and has resigned as a member of the post-convergent party.
The murder of the Canarian student Claudia Tacoronte, assaulted and stabbed on Saturday in Cuautla, Mexico, is the fourth of a student from the Autonomous University of Morelos (UAEM). Three other young women, all Mexican, disappeared and their bodies were found lifeless days later. Sources from the University of Granada state that they were unaware of these deaths.
The Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office of Ceuta has referred to the Court several complaints filed by unaccompanied minor migrants who claim to have suffered abuse, humiliation, and mistreatment in reception centers of the autonomous city’s protection network.
The footwear and sports fashion company Munich is negotiating the implementation of a Workforce Adjustment Plan (ERE) to lay off about 65 workers from its store network in Spain, around 16% of the workforce.
Spain has requested the support of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and Europol from the European Commission for the triage work of immigrants who remain in Ceuta irregularly. This was communicated by the Ministry of the Interior this Friday, whose head, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has sent this request to the Director-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the commission, Beate Gminder.
València and its metropolitan area, which includes many of the towns that suffered the October 2024 dana (which caused 232 deaths), have endured a night and early morning nightmare due to a downpour that collapsed the capital and caused flooding in cities such as Torrent. It was of such intensity that for a time flights at València airport were suspended, the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana network (metro) was completely halted, serious problems were generated in commuter trains, access to the capital was blocked, the match between Levante and Athletic Bilbao was postponed, and residents of the towns in the Barranco del Poyo feared that the flow would overflow and cause a tragedy similar to the one almost two years ago. The Aemet agency had issued an orange warning for days and the Generalitat Valenciana issued the ES-Alert last night when the downpour had collapsed València and the surrounding areas.
The simultaneous advance of wildfires in central Spain has unleashed a new political confrontation between the Community of Madrid and the central government. While the regional president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested the declaration of operational situation 3 of national interest, the Government Delegation questions the measure and demands documentation to support it.
For ten years, Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist, has been investigating the conduct of President Donald Trump. A former researcher and professor of Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, affiliated with Harvard’s psychiatry program, she directs the World Mental Health Coalition, which investigates the psychological capacity of politicians. Not without controversy, her book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, published in 2017 during his first term, compiled essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other experts on the president’s mental health, an issue that is once again coming to the forefront.
The solution to the war between Russia and Ukraine “is indeed possible,” declared Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, although he refrained from specifying whether a peace agreement could be reached sooner rather than later or if Moscow still maintains its territorial demands. The Kremlin chief also expressed his desire to restore good relations with the United States, whose current government he praised for its stance on the European conflict.
