The Council of Ministers has launched this Tuesday the major investment announced of 13 billion euros in Spanish airports until 2031 after making a Solomon-like decision regarding one of the most controversial elements, that of the review of the fees paid by each traveler to cover the infrastructure costs.
“Trust in peace.” The message printed on Keiko Ogura’s t-shirt, a survivor of the atomic bomb, summarizes the identity that Japan built after the United States’ nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The European Central Bank followed the script this Thursday and raised interest rates by a quarter of a point, to 2.50% on the general rate. It is the second increase of the year, reaching highs not seen since March 2025, and the main question in the markets is whether there will be another hike before the end of the year. Affected by the Iran conflict, “inflation will remain well above the target (2%) for a prolonged period,” the entity warned in the decision statement. Higher prices, for longer.
LaLiga has made public this afternoon the Sports Squad Cost Limit (LCPD) of the clubs in the First and Second Division and once again Real Madrid is the club with the highest salary cap, with 832.786 million euros. Increasingly close to those amounts is FC Barcelona, which reaches 582.769 million confirming its positive evolution, far from times of crisis when the figure was negative. In the 2021-22 season, after the winter market closed and with the effects of covid still very evident, the blue and claret club showed a negative LCPD of 144.353 million.
The event faces its final week with three essential names on the agenda of any music lover. María Becerra, Rubén Blades, and Morrissey headline a luxurious closing that consolidates the festival as one of the great cultural offerings of the summer in Barcelona.
In contrast to what happened last summer, when the management of forest fires intensified the political clash between the central Executive and some autonomous communities governed by the Popular Party, such as those of Madrid or Castilla y León, Pedro Sánchez and the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, both socialists, agreed this Wednesday on the importance of coordination and joint work between the different administrations, “shoulder to shoulder”, to fight against fire and the consequences of the climate emergency. The mayor of Tamajón (Guadalajara), Eugenio Esteban, of the PP, also thanked this collaboration between administrations, during the visit that Sánchez and Page made to the advanced command post installed in this town to combat the La Mierla forest fire, which has already devastated more than 32,000 hectares and has become the largest in Castilla-La Mancha.
While in Spain we are anxiously playing on the edge with democracy, Pope Leo XIV has identified the great flaw on which the democracies of the 21st century, including the Spanish one, are based: guaranteeing life projects through work and the social question, a…
The assessment of the management that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, made this week has served to close the curtain on a tense political season awaiting an early election that has not taken place. At this end of the season, La Vanguardia grades the political parties, just as we did last year.
María del Carmen Machi Arroyo (Madrid, January 7, 1963), artistically known as Carmen Machi, was awarded this Thursday with the National Cinematography Award 2026. The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.
In the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Ceuta, some unsettling movements on wheels catch the eye. Besides the immigrants wandering back and forth and the military all-terrain vehicles patrolling the avenues, many Piaggio Porters – compact classic vans for small deliveries – rush through the narrow and steep streets. They look like taxis, going back and forth. On Saturday at noon, they lined up in a row at a roundabout in Loma Colmenar to access some construction material warehouses. They arrive, load – cement, mortar, plasterboard, gypsum boards, or bricks – and leave. And they come back for more.
