Rarely has such a thunderous “goool” been heard in my Barcelona neighborhood as the two from last night. Argentina will be in the final thanks to eight final minutes of madness, a positive event for football and adverse to Spain’s interests because it is hard to put the finishing touch…
Before the first World Cup semifinal, it was easy to jump on the bandwagon of those who saw France as the favorite. No one underestimated Spain, far from it, but Deschamps’ team was the one leaving the best impressions in the tournament, without a doubt. Four top-level forwards placed them as the best attacking team. “We are facing the best team…”, De la Fuente began telling his players in the locker room, before they went out to warm up at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas. It was only a prelude to the message he wanted to convey, the concept that is leading him to success. “… But we are the best team,” he concluded to energize the players before attempting what would become an overwhelming storming of the Bastille. July 14 will also be a national holiday in Spain because it opened the way to fight for the red team’s second star.
The ruling of the EU Court of Justice on the amnesty for the leaders of the procés is the culmination of the growing confrontation between Pedro Sánchez’s Government and the judiciary. The Executive barely hides it anymore and accuses some judges of acting in a twisted manner, driven by political motives. On the other side, magistrates holding positions in high courts and conservative judges’ associations consider themselves attacked in their independence. They even see themselves as the last defenders of the State against a Government they consider populist and capable of fostering the breakup of the State and the degradation of institutions in order to stay in power.
The payment processing company Stripe and the private equity fund Advent International announced yesterday a $53 billion – or €46 billion – takeover bid to buy the digital payment service PayPal, a pioneering firm in online transactions. The bidders offer $60.50 per share, with a premium of about 28% over the previous closing price. Its shares rose 15% yesterday.
A woman and her two minor children have died this Wednesday by drowning in the reservoir of the Navarrese town of Roncal, a bathing area, in the Esca river.
After two years of intense national debate, the deeply divided French National Assembly approved this Wednesday, by 291 votes in favor and 241 against, the bill on “the right to assistance in dying.” The decriminalization, under strict conditions and protocols, of assisted suicide and euthanasia – words that the legislative text avoids naming – has had the support of President Emmanuel Macron, who has urged the Government to accelerate the process.
Russian soldiers survive an average of between 20 and 30 minutes on the battlefield due to Ukraine’s drones equipped with Artificial Intelligence (AI), CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday.
The leader of Junts Carles Puigdemont awaits the ruling to be announced this Thursday from the European justice system regarding the amnesty to reactivate his return to Spain in the courts. However, whatever the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) says, the expectation is that the return of the former president of the Generalitat will still have to wait a few months. According to legal sources, the national arrest warrant against him will not be revoked until the Constitutional Court (TC) rules, presumably in October, on the appeal he filed against the decision of the Supreme Court (TS) judge Pablo Llarena not to apply the amnesty to him.
The King will fulfill his promise and this Sunday will accompany the players of the Spanish national football team who are seeking the second championship star to join the one they won in 2010 at the World Cup in South Africa. But he will not go alone, as Queen Letizia, Princess Leonor, and Infanta Sofía will also travel to New York to attend the match that will be held at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
The final of this year’s World Cup could last up to half an hour, something unprecedented until now and which has generated a lot of criticism because it would mean doubling the usual break time between the first half and the second, completely breaking the rhythm of the players. The reason is none other than to accommodate the endless list of artists that FIFA wants to perform during the break and that hardly fit into the 15 minutes established by the regulations.