Donald Trump’s schedule indicated that this Tuesday morning he had “executive time” and “two political meetings,” all closed to the press. But it is clear that the vocation of real estate promoter is part of the genetic code of the President of the United States, so he found time to take journalists on a tour of the construction of his ballroom.
This is Donald Trump’s pendulum, which as soon as he threatens the total destruction of Iran, he backtracks saying that the negotiations are going well. This Tuesday, explanations were required for the decision to halt the new initiative to bomb the Middle East enemy.
Russia began training exercises for its nuclear forces this Tuesday. In these maneuvers, in which Belarus is also participating, the Russian army will mobilize thousands of men and simulate a threat of aggression against the country to test the readiness level of its strategic forces, announced the Ministry of Defense hours before the arrival of President Vladimir Putin in China.
After signing the first budget agreement with the Government of Salvador Illa, the president of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, has defended the pact reached because it fulfills -in his opinion- a “double function.” On one hand, because it resolves the “everyday problems” of Catalonia with budget allocation and, on the other, because it provides the opportunity to “achieve more powers and tools in favor of the country.”
The agreement signed by President Salvador Illa and the leader of ERC, Oriol Junqueras, is no longer just for the 2026 budgets, but is focused on 2027 and beyond. De facto, this agreement will allow for the resources and political stability sufficient to complete the Catalan legislature – which expires in the summer of 2028 – but will serve as a planning tool for a few more years. At the same time, this agreement reaffirms the Government’s link with its main ally, since the signed document ratifies some of the most relevant investiture agreements, such as special financing, IRPF collection, airport management, or the cancellation of the FLA debt.
Jonathan Andic grew up within Mango long before occupying an office at the top of the group. He was the eldest son of Isak Andic, the founder who built one of the largest European fashion empires from Catalonia, but those who dealt with him in those years remember a discreet executive, more comfortable in creative and product teams than on the corporate front line. He studied Audiovisual Communication in the United States and later completed his training with an MBA at IESE, before formally joining the family business in 2005.
The Mango business has managed to stay out of the investigation into the death of its founder, Isak Andic, in December 2024. The shock caused by the sudden death of the businessman and the subsequent police investigation have not taken a toll on the company’s business. Sales have grown by 13% and are close to 3.8 billion euros, while profit has increased by 11% and now stands at 242 million euros.
Jonathan Andic, 45 years old, and accused of killing his father Isak Andic during a walk in Montserrat in December 2024, learned this Tuesday about the evidence that the Mossos d’Esquadra have gathered over the last year and a half to maintain their suspicions. A long list of clues that the judge of court 5 of Martorell enumerated in a very harsh detention order that was made public. A document that included the request from prosecutor Teresa Yoldi to send the eldest son to prison for a homicide crime, but a measure avoidable by a bail of one million euros that the accused deposited in ten minutes. Immediately afterwards, he was released, with the prohibition to leave Spain, after handing over his passport to the magistrate, and once again making the walk before the media, but this time without the handcuffs with which he arrived when he was taken into custody.
“I have nothing to do with Plus Ultra,” assured former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero last March 2 in the Senate. But this morning the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has summoned him as a suspect for an alleged crime of influence peddling and other related offenses within the framework of the Plus Ultra case. Zapatero will have to appear before the magistrate next June 2. In parallel, the judicial police are raiding the former president’s offices today. The secrecy of the investigation was lifted this morning, but some details of the Plus Ultra case are already known.
The advertising and public relations company Whathefav, owned by Laura and Alba Rodríguez Espinosa, the daughters of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, received more than one million euros in the payment scheme linked to the former Prime Minister following the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra, according to the court order in the case.