Few things are more Barcelonan than kicking off the most gluttonous intellectual-social week of, perhaps, all time with an explosion of Central European gravity and full-blown melancholy. How about a Mahler? A First Symphony for the penultimate Monday of May while the city…
The Barça women’s team has many layers. And they are all made of overcoming, effort, and successes. Barça is Aitana excited after the most difficult year of her career, but arriving in time to push the team in the final stretch. It is Cata Coll, without work under the posts for the rest of the year but appearing in Oslo with saves for the history books and leading the celebration in the locker room alongside Pina. It is Ewa Pajor finally breaking her personal curse and proving that, in her case, the sixth time was the charm. The Polish player bowed to the trophy and kissed it emotionally.
Josep Sánchez Llibre (Vilassar de Mar, 1949) begins his third term at the head of the employers’ association Foment del Treball focused on reducing taxation, absenteeism, and improving investment in infrastructure. And he does so just as a harsh critique by a group of prestigious economists about the economic development model of Catalonia and, specifically, the type of companies and employment created in recent years has been published. The president of Foment disputes their diagnosis.
The open case against Jonathan Andic for the death of his father, Isak Andic, could have significant financial consequences in the hypothetical event that the eldest son of the deceased businessman is convicted. The main one, the loss of the inheritance received, one third…
This week there has been good news in Catalunya. The PSC, ERC, and the commons have reached a budget agreement that will allow a 10% increase in spending and represents a point of stability in Catalunya, after years of shocks and paralysis. In this…
Albert Dalmau (Barcelona, 1992) receives La Vanguardia after the Govern finally approved its first budgets. They still need to be validated by the Parliament, but for the conseller they represent a turning point after which he foresees a decade of stability for Catalonia.
Catalunya will be one of the few autonomous communities to approve budgets this year. Oriol Junqueras has just given the green light to the Generalitat’s accounts. The Comuns as well. Salvador Illa will thus be able to reach the end of the legislature in 2028, which will strengthen a period of stability in Catalunya at a very turbulent time in Spanish politics.
United States intelligence agents have likely played a decisive role in placing José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the conveyor belt of major scandals, from which few, very few, come out unscathed. It is no secret. It is stated in the order of the…
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has several faces. The first, that of the progressive politician committed to opposing the war and to social advances such as the Equality law, the right to abortion, or same-sex marriage. The second, that of a socialist Prime Minister who led a team without major scandals for seven years, but with the questionable management of the economic crisis that cost him the mandate. The third, that of a low-profile former head of government, with approaches to countries like Venezuela or China. And since last Tuesday: a fourth, that of the first former Spanish leader investigated for allegedly leading an “organized scheme” dedicated to enriching themselves in exchange for their influence in high places.