August has been a bad month for Pedro Sánchez. What was supposed to be a period of relative calm, with the courts and the Parliament closed for holidays, has turned into a nightmare due to what happened in Ceuta. The Government has avoided in August the wear and tear of the multiple…
“I will answer everything I am asked.” Although the president of the court judging Operation Kitchen warned her that she had been provisionally cleared, meaning any false answer could serve to reopen the case against her, the former secretary general of the Popular Party arrived this Thursday at the Audiencia Nacional eager to distance herself from any parapolice operation to steal information from Luis Bárcenas because at that time she “was certain” that “that person you are talking about” (referring to the former treasurer) did not have any document that could compromise the Popular Party leadership over its irregular financing. Words that could contradict a recording that was made public in which she asked former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo:
The Euribor, a benchmark for variable mortgages, reached 3% in its daily rate this Friday, something that had not happened since September 2024, almost two years ago. Behind the upward trend is the environment of higher inflation and rate hikes that the market anticipates due to the energy tension caused by the war in the Middle East.
The slogan “no to war” can take on different variations, such as “no to hunger.” The first stop on Pedro Sánchez’s trip to Rome was a conference of the FAO, the United Nations agency for food, headquartered in the Italian capital, titled “Food Security and Nutrition Under Pressure: Consequences of the Conflict in the Middle East.”
It is not a made-up story, although it catches your attention when you read it: one of the people affected by the closure of the century-old Marie Claire plant in Vilafranca del Cid, in Els Ports, ended up coming down from their village every day to work at the Importaco almond factory in La Vall d’Alba, in La Plana Alta, which is now also closing after the spectacular fire last May. “What happened with Importaco has been a disaster,” explains Javier Ferreres, UGT-PV FICA general secretary in the Castellón regions. “Here we have felt disheartened. Meetings have been held, yes, but nothing has been achieved. Just like with Marie Claire, nothing was achieved but there were gestures, here nothing,” he emphasizes, jumping from one closure to another, weaving the course of a labor market, the Castellón one, which is especially conditioned by geography, but also by communications and infrastructure.
At telephoto distance, the only visible movement in the houses on the hill was that of two military vehicles and an excavator. “I do not recommend that you get close. They have expelled all the families from the surroundings and there are snipers in the windows,” a neighbor warned the journalists who had just arrived in Tell, a town of 7,000 inhabitants south of Nablus and the epicenter of the latest outbreak of violence in the West Bank.
“While the scheming opposition can continue maneuvering, we will keep governing until 2027 and for as long as the Spanish people want,” warned Pedro Sánchez. In a climate of total uncertainty amid the flood of legal cases surrounding the political and family environment of the Prime Minister, and without knowing how far these processes may escalate but also with no expectation that the storm will subside, nothing is better than a good warm bath of youthful socialist militancy to try to catch one’s breath and, at the same time, attempt to inject fighting spirit into troops torn between indignation and discouragement.
The fire declared last week in the municipality of La Mierla (Guadalajara) has stopped its advance to Soria, as indicated by the regional president, Emiliano García-Page, who said that they are beginning to “see the light beyond the smoke” and stated that the flames have already devastated 29,000 hectares.
Russia wants Armenia to stop moving closer to the European Union. After several weeks of economic pressure, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, secured this Friday the support of his allies from the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), who joined his demand that the small former Soviet republic in the Caucasus choose whether it is with them or with Brussels.
La DANA of Valencia on October 29, 2024 left a deep psychological impact on many minors. This impact has forced schools to implement therapeutic actions to manage trauma in the classrooms. Care that has been carried out in parallel with the reconstruction of the facilities damaged by the flooding.
