La diputada Glòria Freixa, secretaria primera de la Mesa del Parlament, is considering joining the Junts primaries to lead the Barcelona list for next year’s municipal elections. In the coming days, she will make a decision and could be the fourth contender if the other three who have publicly expressed their willingness to participate in the process at some point are confirmed.
The Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and 2030 Agenda has announced today the imposition of a one million euro fine on the car rental company Avis for engaging in abusive practices.
The fire declared on Thursday in the Madrid municipality of Lozoyuela has already burned more than 900 hectares and remains “very active.” Furthermore, it is still “unstabilized and not contained,” according to information provided by the Government delegate, Francisco Martín, in an interview on the Ser network.
Several dozen people have gathered since early this Thursday in the Embajadores neighborhood, in the Centro district of the capital, to prevent the eviction of Mariano Ordaz, a 67-year-old retiree who has lived all his life in a home owned by the religious order of the Franciscans and who is facing his fifth eviction order.
The impact of the DANA on October 29 is measured not only in mud but also in unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the disaster struck more than 54,000 companies and put the livelihood of over 190,000 workers at risk, affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10,000 shops and local businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero area demands a specialized workforce that the current market cannot supply.
“The civil guards are very persistent, also when searching for victims. Hope is the last thing to go,” says the highest-ranking officer of the Civil Guard in the Valencian Community, General José Antonio Fernández de Luz. In an interview with the EFE Agency, Fernández de Luz responds this way when asked about the search efforts for two of the 230 fatalities of the dana, including a guard from the Paiporta post and the wife of another agent. “At least every 15 days we set up a search operation to look again where we have already been or in areas that experts in the field may indicate to us,” he adds about the search, almost 19 months after the dana, for the bodies of Elisabeth and Francisco, two of the flood victims.
The FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving the already huge excitement to see the total solar eclipse the day after tomorrow, the first one that can be enjoyed in Spain in a century. Although it was predictable that it would happen, it worries the authorities and public managers because it could lead to collapses, last-minute displacements, and uncivil behavior. Many of those who criticized so much attention to the astronomical phenomenon are now trying, two days before the eclipse, to have a good plan to experience it.
Considered in the past one of the gods of hip hop and music in general, probably no one like Kanye West has done so much to undermine his prestige and personal credit as himself, even accused of apologism for Nazism, a baggage from which he now seems determined to detach with musical atonements like the one performed this Thursday in Madrid.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed this Wednesday the creation of a “European Security Council,” a new mutual security alliance that unites EU member countries with Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Norway, Canada, and other countries, which could function as a reduced NATO.
Our colleague Jaume V. Aroca, currently dispatched to cover the Andalusian elections, explains in his reports that on the street there is hardly any sign of a campaign. People continue with their own business, more focused on their daily tasks than on rallies, debates, or walks of…
