More resources to complete the expansion of Fira de Barcelona. The Generalitat and the company Fira 2000 have signed a loan of 220 million euros with five financial institutions to complete the works of the Montjuïc and Gran Via venues. BBVA, Banc Sabadell, CaixaBank, Banco Santander, and the Catalan Institute of Finance (ICF) have participated in the operation.
The new generations allocate part of their budget to mental health, sports, or education, needs that a few decades ago were not even part of everyday life. Prices in Spain have risen by 3.2% in the last year, a figure that coexists with a widespread feeling: everyday life has become more expensive in almost everything, even in what was not previously considered consumption.
A total of thirteen political formations to the left of the PSOE, including Més per Mallorca, ERC, Sumar, Podemos, EH Bildu, Compromís, CUP, BNG, Izquierda Unida, Comuns, Adelante Andalucía, Somos Asturies, and Más Madrid, have called on Pedro Sánchez’s government not to authorize the extradition of the American millionaire, pro-Palestinian activist, who has been held in preventive detention in the Eivissa prison since his arrest last Friday.
If there is something that characterizes Donald Trump’s policy, it is relentless pressure, blackmail for many, when something obsesses him. The president demanded this Friday that the Federal Reserve (Fed) drastically cut interest rates at the next meeting (September 15-16) or, otherwise, he will cut trade with countries with which the United States has trade deficits.
The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has criticized the statements of the director of the Eurovision Festival, Martin Green, about a possible return of Russia to the contest, and has warned that “they destroy the image of the competition and make Spain’s return more difficult.”
The King has awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece, the highest decoration granted by the Crown, to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, former president of Portugal, as a sign of his personal and institutional appreciation. It is the first distinction by Felipe VI to a foreign personality since his proclamation, following the award of the Golden Fleece to the Princess of Asturias, Queen Sofía, former Prime Minister Felipe González, and the fathers of the Constitution Miquel Roca i Junyent and Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón.
Until yesterday, the central Government appeared in public – and also in private – “absolutely calm” in the face of threats from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to withdraw his troops from Spain. Sources from Moncloa, who framed them within the hyperbolic rhetoric of the White House occupant, downplayed them by pointing out that it is enough to follow – “from logic and common sense” – the dotted line of the million-dollar American investments in the bases of Rota (Cádiz) and, to a lesser extent, Morón de la Frontera (Seville) to determine their future in the face of the repeated warnings coming from Washington. The inconsistency between the flood of millions of dollars and the Republican’s warnings led to the belief that it was just another salvo. The sequence is clarifying.
The capital city effect explains part of why the State invested more than twice as much in Madrid as in Catalonia last year. The other part is because the actual spending on works is lower in the Catalan community than in the one that hosts the capital.
After almost six hours answering questions in the trial for the ‘Operation Kitchen’ held at the National Court, National Police Chief Inspector Manuel Morocho was eager to speak more. During the two sessions that his testimony lasted, the officer who led investigations such as Gürtel or the Bárcenas Papers recounted how he corroborated the existence of “a police operation without judicial authorization” targeting the former treasurer of the Popular Party Luis Bárcenas, how he suffered pressure not to include the name of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in one of his reports, how the Ministry of the Interior at the time deployed “a strategy to dismantle” his police group, and how he found “indications” that his office and vehicle were monitored to conduct surveillance on him. “I don’t know if I can say something,” he asked the court president, Teresa Palacios, as she was dismissing him. At that moment, a nearly unanimous “no” was heard from the defendants’ bench, almost entirely. “The PP’s black beast,” as he recalled they called him yesterday, left without revealing that “thing” he still had to say. Although what he did say, exposing Kitchen, was not few.
“I feel Flick’s trust and I want to stay in Barça’s first team,” said Xavi Espart yesterday, a versatile right-back of 19 years who can also play as a defensive midfielder, a position with which, for example, he won the U-19 European Championship with Spain. “Being here is a great opportunity to earn a place in the first team,” agreed Álvaro Cortés, a 21-year-old center-back, beside him.
