A record broken and a task still to be completed: to continue governing. This Friday, Giorgia Meloni’s Executive becomes the longest-lasting in the history of the Italian Republic. It is 1,413 consecutive days in power, one more than Silvio Berlusconi’s second Government, breaking with an almost atavistic tradition of instability.
The solution to the war between Russia and Ukraine “is indeed possible,” declared Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, although he refrained from specifying whether a peace agreement could be reached sooner rather than later or if Moscow still maintains its territorial demands. The Kremlin chief also expressed his desire to restore good relations with the United States, whose current government he praised for its stance on the European conflict.
The Film Academy announced this Thursday the three Spanish films that begin the race towards the Oscar. Los domingos, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen; and La bola negra, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, are the three preselected films for the major film awards given in Hollywood. Pedro Almodóvar, who released Amarga Navidad this year, has been left out.
The unions Ustec and CGT maintain the strike call for the first day of the school year after the meeting with the councilor Esther Niubó ended without progress. The councilor, for her part, has asked for a pause in the mobilizations to work “calmly” on the demands. To this end, she has offered an agenda to discuss aspects of educational quality. “We have to move from a scenario of tension to a constructive one,” she said, claiming the path started with unprecedented mobilized resources and that it must continue with greater progress, but always from a space of “trust.”
The Volkswagen Group casts doubt on the continuity of the Seat brand, according to the specialized media WirtschaftsWoche, which accessed a leak of internal documents that suggest this. According to this media, among many other measures, the group will propose at its crucial supervisory board meeting tomorrow to eliminate the brand starting in 2029 as it will be absorbed by its sister brand Cupra. Seat points out that “this is not official” and that “no decision has been made.”
Fifteen years after the events, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), based in Strasbourg, condemned Spain this Thursday for having imposed prison sentences on those who blocked access to the Parliament of Catalonia on June 15, 2011.
The Canary migration route, the deadliest in the world, was once again marked by mourning yesterday. 83 people, including two women and a baby, died aboard a cayuco that left Gambia on August 7 with 127 occupants and was lost at sea without water or food.
The National Police arrested on the morning of this Thursday a woman, of Spanish nationality, as the alleged person responsible for the death of a Moroccan immigrant, who was staying in her home, in an irregular situation, according to police sources. So far, it has not been clarified whether the deceased was one of the people who entered in the avalanche on July 30 and 31.
The Ceuta crisis progresses marked by the absence of a convincing explanation of what happened on July 30. When there is no clear diagnosis of the causes, it is hardly possible to be effective in the solution and much less to prevent it from happening again. More than a month later, the Government has not provided a convincing account of the origin of the migrant surge. It could argue that it may be impossible to know who is behind the border assault, but the problem is that the Executive has issued different and contradictory versions. When that happens in crisis management, the disaster is evident.
The Chief Prosecutor of the National Court, Jesús Alonso, has informed the National Court judge María Tardón that he will take on the Ceuta case, so that he, and not the assigned prosecutor, will report on the jurisdiction and acceptance for processing of the complaint filed by an accusation, according to what La Vanguardia has learned from legal sources.
