President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will increase tariffs on vehicles from the European Union (EU) and accused the Old Continent bloc of not complying with its trade agreement with the United States.
The Prime Minister of Latvia, Evika Siliņa, has resigned this Thursday after her coalition government has been shaken in recent weeks following a collateral incident of the war in Ukraine.
The demand from ERC regarding the management of the IRPF in Catalonia, which thwarted the previous attempt to approve the budgets of the Salvador Illa Government, has been put on hold for the moment, but, in the meantime, the republicans have tried to negotiate up to the limits of what is possible within the framework of the budget agreement to be announced this week to prepare the ground. Thus, the Catalan Tax Agency (ATC) will receive a clear boost with a specific program contract that will allow it to equip itself within a period of three years (2026-2029) with the human and technical resources necessary to assume all tax functions related to the management of the aforementioned tax for taxpayers in Catalonia.
The Mango business has managed to stay out of the investigation into the death of its founder, Isak Andic, in December 2024. The shock caused by the sudden death of the businessman and the subsequent police investigation have not taken a toll on the company’s business. Sales have grown by 13% and are close to 3.8 billion euros, while profit has increased by 11% and now stands at 242 million euros.
The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the leader of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, led this Monday the presentation event of the orbital railway line in Sant Sadurní d’Anoia. This is the network project that will go from Vilanova i la Geltrú to Mataró without passing through Barcelona and will have an investment from the State of 5.2 billion euros. This pact between socialists and republicans represents the first step to stage a budget agreement that, if everything is fulfilled, will be signed tomorrow.
Javier Bardem has expressed words of gratitude to the Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, who at the press conference of the jury members of the official section of the Cannes festival, defended that the Spanish actor, like Susan Sarandon and Mark Ruffalo, raised their voices publicly in support of Gaza and harshly criticized the American industry for the alleged professional reprisals against the three actors. “I sent him a message through a mutual friend thanking him and also Laverty has always been an artistic and personal reference,” the Oscar-winning actor confessed to a small group of journalists during an interview about his role in El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which is competing for the Palme d’Or and is officially presented this afternoon at the French festival.
Once the electoral scrutiny of May 17 confirmed on the night of this Sunday its poor polling forecasts in Andalusia, the PSOE leadership hurried to put forward a flood of positive elements for their interests to try to overcome the fact that María Jesús Montero, with only 28 seats, broke through the historical low of the socialists in what was once their impregnable stronghold.
The Government does not have illusions. The downfall of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whether or not he is ultimately convicted, marks a turning point in the hopes of renewing a left-wing administration. As if that were not enough, they do not expect this to be the last onslaught…
Union disunity worsens this Tuesday in Valencia with tensions over the salary agreement that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Universities reached yesterday with the CSIF and ANPE unions. STEPV, CCOO-PV, and UGT-PV, who did not sign the agreement yesterday, wanted to know if the review according to the CPI agreed for the last salary increase established in the agreement – 50 euros in 2028, after the 75 euros increase in July 2027 and the other 75 euros in January 2027 – and the regional Secretary of Education, Daniel McEvoy, clarified it right at the start of this afternoon’s new negotiating table meeting, making it clear that the 2028 CPI review will be made “on the total of the 200 euros and not on the last 50, thus attending to the request of the trade union organizations.” Now the non-signatories can choose between joining or denouncing the agreement.
Barcelonismo woke up this Monday with a bittersweet taste on its lips. Half intoxicated with happiness after celebrating the passage to the sixth consecutive Champions final, half clouded by the tears of Alexia Putellas who may have stepped on the Camp Nou for the last time this Sunday dressed in blaugrana. The culé captain’s contract ends in June and, although she has the possibility to activate the optional year of her contract, her future is farther than close to Barcelona.