Global warming has awakened Iceland from its slumber, increased its strategic value, and forces its citizens to rethink their future. This weekend’s referendum has been the first sign of that concern. Last winter, during his visit to Davos, and before a…
The “yes” leads the provisional count in the Icelandic referendum on the resumption of accession negotiations with the European Union (EU) by nearly two points, with around 60% of the votes counted. According to the partial count, 50.9% of voters would be in favor of resuming negotiations, compared to 49.1% who oppose it.
Ceuta will appear one day in a book by Robert D. Kaplan, the man who fifteen years ago warned us about an imminent revenge of geography. In fact, without being explicitly mentioned, the Spanish city that watches over the Strait of Gibraltar from the south is already peeking its head out…
P edro Sánchez will give explanations next week about Ceuta after a month of silence from the president. The carousel of ministers that preceded him has brought more confusion than anything else. We do not know what happened for almost 80,000 people to storm the border of Ceuta…
It is not common for a CIA director to travel to Moscow. However, when it emerged that John Ratcliffe had secretly visited the Russian capital this week, President Donald Trump downplayed it and said it was just a “semi-routine” trip. That did not stop speculation about the real reason that led Washington to send its top intelligence chief to a country at war with its ally, Ukraine, and at odds with NATO. The last known time the CIA director traveled to Moscow was in November 2021, when William Burns conveyed to Vladimir Putin’s government a warning about its buildup of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, prior to the start of its invasion in February 2022.
One month after the breach of the Tarajal border, through which more than 80,000 people entered in just 48 hours, Ceuta is a city with spirits at rock bottom. The deep feeling of institutional abandonment, combined with high doses of indignation, fear, and uncertainty, has taken over the streets. The same streets where thousands of immigrants continue to wander. The locals, whose August (their peace, their freedom) has been stolen with confinements not decreed by the BOE but by the lack of security, fear that the tension stemming from indignation will break their historic multicultural coexistence. That the crack at the border with Morocco will irreversibly fracture a population whose patience is at its limit due to unfulfilled promises.
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…
There is already a medical report from the UAE Emirates team doctor about Tadej Pogacar’s physical condition after his crash and withdrawal from the Vuelta a España this Saturday. The statement confirms that the five-time Tour champion will have to undergo surgery as he has a broken collarbone. This means that the Slovenian says goodbye to the season. Goodbye to the Montreal World Championship and Il Lombardia, a monument he has won five times.
Visibly emotional, dressed in a dark suit and black tie and seated behind a palatial rectangular table, with a portrait of his smiling father, two lit candles, and a flower arrangement, Haakon XVIII, the new king of Norway, delivered his first message to the country this Saturday, paying tribute to Harald V, who passed away last Friday at the age of 89, after serving as king for the past 35 years. The Norwegian monarch confirmed that his wife, Queen Mette-Marit, will share his commitment to the country and declared himself willing to “risk everything, even life, for the freedom and independence of Norway.”
Tadej Pogacar will not win the Vuelta a España, he will not even finish it. A crash takes him out of the Spanish tour. The Slovenian cyclist, who wore the red leader’s jersey from the first day, left for home by ambulance. He abandoned completely in pain from the hard blow, with blood on his left elbow, shoulder, and face after falling to the ground.