The pressure that the U.S. president, Donald Trump, wants to exert on Germany, from where he has just withdrawn his troops, also extends to trade agreements. Yesterday, out of nowhere, Trump announced that he will raise tariffs on European cars again, from 15% to 25%, stating that the European Union does not comply with the agreements of the Joint Declaration that both parties signed last July.
U.S. Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will leave the Donald Trump Administration after the controversy generated by her accusations of workplace misconduct. White House communications director, Steven Cheung, announced in a statement that she is leaving “to take on a role in the private sector” and praised “her phenomenal work in her role protecting American workers.”
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.
This is one of those municipal projects that generate a certain sense of déjà vu in anyone who follows urban planning information in Barcelona with some interest. The City Council announced this Thursday the awarding of the Landskrona project in the ideas competition to define the Magòria complex, in Sants-Montjuïc, on the mountain side bank of Gran Via. The works, which include sports facilities, a new garden, and the underground work and cleaning center of Parc i Jardins, should start in January 2028. The fact is that something similar happened in the previous decade, with the expectation of being able to cut the ribbon in 2022.
One of the shafts of the Montcada i Reixac undergrounding works has unexpectedly collapsed while operators were working this midday. No personal injuries have been registered, but the open sinkhole is so large that it has swallowed a large crane.
“Y ya lo ves, y ya lo ves, el que no salta es un inglés”. Of all the anthems of the Argentine fans, that was the real hit at Arrowhead, the stadium of the Kansas City Chiefs, before, during, and at the end of the quarterfinal match against Switzerland. It was no less.
EU countries already have their box of recommendations from the European Commission to mitigate the energy crisis stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. And it does not include the suggestion of teleworking, as an earlier draft stated, but it does include reinforced coordination of energy reserve storage among Member States, one of the few competencies the Community Executive has in this area. Brussels, however, is for the moment shelving the idea of approving a European mechanism to tax the extraordinary profits of energy companies, despite the request from large EU countries such as Spain, Italy, and Germany.
The large forest fires are starting to show signs of improvement in Ávila, Madrid, and Toledo, although extinction teams still face “very complex hours” after burning 77.000 hectares, with a perimeter of 280 km, and forcing the evacuation or confinement of nearly 90.000 people in the three provinces, while the fire in La Vall d’Uixò (Castellón) continues out of control. In the fires of Ávila, Madrid, and Toledo, there are 59.896 evacuated and 29.867 confined.
The simultaneity of fires in the vicinity of Madrid complicates extinction efforts, with four active fires close to each other and the added difficulty of being very close to each other and in three different autonomous communities.
In Figueres and in many sectors of the citizenry, there is a feeling that Kimberli’s death could have been avoided. The woman was stabbed to death this Tuesday at the hands of her ex-partner, a man who had been convicted only 24 hours earlier for abuse and against whom a restraining order was in place, which he violated twice in one day with the outcome that is already known.