Mikhail Gorbachev was not the last leader of the USSR, because the Soviet Union still exists and has been hijacked by a private company called Russia. All the bills that its citizens pay, such as electricity, gas, or mortgages, not to mention taxes, are illegal…
Behind the French anger with Rajoy is the PP’s blockage of the Spain-France friendship treaty
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, expressed this morning his surprise at how the Popular Party is conducting its relations with Spain’s neighboring countries, particularly with France.
The preview of the World Cup semifinal between Spain and France has been surrounded by the last two precedents that favor the Spanish, with special prominence of Lamine Yamal against Kylian Mbappé, but the history of the encounters between La Roja and the Bleus goes much further back with more encouraging chapters for the French.
Reviewing the biography of Didier Deschamps (Bayonne, 1968) it is striking that he has not even turned 60. The French coach seems to have spent his whole life on the bench of les bleus, but when the World Cup ends in a few days and he concludes his successful 14-year tenure leading his country, he will still have much to live for. “The French national team is the best thing that has ever happened to me,” he repeats with that inscrutable expression, halfway between a smile and a grimace. Surely, as the facts confirm, Deschamps is also the best thing that has ever happened to the French national team.
Sea or mountain. Cold or heat. Order or chaos. Lamine Yamal or Mbappé. Spain or France. To each their own. What is certain is that the first World Cup semifinal confirms a new rivalry, a classic of modern football, a clash between what are surely the two most powerful national teams in the world, if Messi allows it. In Dallas, both sides of the Pyrenees face off in a semifinal of a major tournament for the third consecutive time. In the previous two, Euro 2024 and the 2025 Nations League, De la Fuente and his boys were sharper and made it to the final. But the past will be of little use when the ball starts rolling on the green of the AT&T Stadium, well covered, avoiding the scorching heat that reigns in the state of Texas these days.
Just turned 19, Lamine Yamal appeared before the media ahead of the World Cup semifinal between France and Spain in Dallas, and before addressing the match, he made his position clear regarding the controversy sparked by Mariano Rajoy about the French internationals.
More than once we have mentioned that Alberto Núñez Feijóo was much more relaxed and happy when he was president of the Xunta de Galicia than now that he serves as leader of the opposition. It is not easy at all to deal with Pedro Sánchez and endure the daily pressure of public opinion…
El Partido Popular already managed to provoke the irritation of the governments of Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron, by blocking a week ago in the Senate the friendship treaty that both leaders sealed at the Hispano-French summit held in Barcelona on January 19, 2023. And now some controversial words from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy – in which he pointed out that the French national football team is playing the World Cup, in his opinion, “without French players” – have the effect of lighting a match on a barrel of dynamite.
The novelist and RAE academic Juan Goytisolo (Barcelona, 1935), National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2013, has died at the age of 91. The author of the monumental tetralogy Antagonía was the brother of the also great Barcelona writers Juan Goytisolo and José Agustín Goytisolo.