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.
The PISA 2025 report has revealed a terrifyingly dystopian fact: young people cannot understand long texts due to their difficulty in maintaining attention. The diagnosis is so serious that, according to the educational experts consulted by this newspaper, only a social pact involving families and schools can reverse it. It was done with mobile phones, removing them from educational centers. Now – they point out – it must be done with reading. Enric Prats, professor of pedagogy at UB, and Jordi Collet, professor of Sociology of Education, propose prioritizing reading in school, which is the gateway to other knowledge. And to evaluate much more. The half hour of daily reading that was introduced by law two years ago in all Primary and Secondary classes, what results has it obtained? Do schools really do it?
A Serbian blue helmet from the UN peacekeeping mission deployed in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, has died and two other soldiers of Spanish nationality have been slightly injured due to a mortar shell attack on Wednesday night against a peacekeeping troops position near the Spanish mission base, in the Lebanese town of Marjayún, in the south of the country.
The meeting of the two great superpowers of the world has ended in Beijing without us having enough information about what was discussed there, and above all, what was agreed upon. Not only in the political summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, but also in…
A PP deputy, present in the negotiations of the amendments with Vox, was complaining this week about the impression that their party says yes to everything their partners propose without protest. “We fight a lot, you don’t know what they propose to us and not everything goes through,” she pointed out. The truth is that, despite the parliamentarian’s words, PP and Vox end the political term in total harmony in the Corts Valencianes. Last Monday, the Populars voted in favor of every single one of the radical right’s amendments (both the negotiated ones and those that were not touched) to the law on fiscal measures, administrative and financial management, and organization of the Generalitat. At the same time, Vox did the same with the PP, except on one issue.
“If we consider that Barcino was a city, let’s say, cool, we must consider that Barcino must have had an amphitheater.”
The more than 5,000 sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the United States fleet, have been deployed in the Persian Gulf for over 250 days due to the Iran war. They have not made a port call in more than half a year, a new modern record for consecutive days at sea, and with no signs that the conflict will end soon, their families have reported a serious deterioration in living conditions and mental health.
Pedro Sánchez has chosen the path of empathy to face Ceuta Day, a date that this year is hardly festive for its population. With the city still absorbing the impact of the migratory avalanche at the end of July and the tension in its streets running high, the President of the Government has opted for a message of support and self-criticism. He has acknowledged that, until normality is restored, for part of the people of Ceuta the State’s response remains insufficient. And he did so barely 24 hours after the Council of Ministers gave the green light to a financial lifeline of 309 million euros.
The Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Esther Niubó, speaks with La Vanguardia one day after chairing the meeting between her department and the unions that have been holding a standoff in the streets for two months. Niubó defends the agreement, claiming that never before had 2 billion euros been put on the table for educational improvements. She believes there is room for agreements within it and assures that the Government will not leave the table until it is achieved.
Spain is currently reviewing its regulatory framework with the draft Medicines Law. In your opinion, what is the main opportunity and the main risk of this reform?
