Creating a planetary oversight of artificial intelligence to contain its apocalyptic potential should be the priority of any electoral program. There is no other. John Carlin invited in his article yesterday to pressure politicians to focus on the threat…
“This can only be unlocked from Catalonia,” Alberto Núñez Feijóo told Josep Sánchez-Llibre, the president of the large Catalan employers’ association Foment del Treball, after his speech at the annual conferences of the Cercle d’Economia. That phrase, directed at whom it was directed, was full of intent. Sánchez-Llibre is one of the few representatives of Catalan civil society with notable interlocution and capacity for influence over the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont. So Feijóo was seeking help to convince the former president of the convenience of favoring a no-confidence motion that would unseat Pedro Sánchez. Both the socialist and the popular leader sent messages to Waterloo, but in very different tones and content. Junts has made it clear from the beginning that their votes are in exchange for demands, so it’s about knowing what Sánchez and Feijóo offer to potential allies. Well, both have made it quite clear this week in Barcelona.
At least ten autonomous communities will attend this Thursday, August 27, the Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence, which will address the extraordinary credit of 25 million euros intended for the care of migrant minors in Ceuta, following the massive arrival of foreigners on July 30, as well as the possible distribution among the autonomous communities of these minors. And, for now, three others have confirmed that they will be absent from the meeting: Castilla y León, Extremadura, and Aragón, while the Balearic Islands, the Community of Madrid, and La Rioja have, for the moment, avoided confirming their presence.
Heartbreak, weariness, spirituality, loss, or simply the will to wait for the right person. The reasons for consciously choosing celibacy are multiple, and Sharon Stone (Pennsylvania, 1958) has just revealed hers. At 68 years old, the star of Basic Instinct says she has not had sex for a while because she only wants to do so again if she falls in love.
“I won the elections here.” It had been just over three minutes since the start of his press conference in Ceuta last Sunday, and the far-right leader Santiago Abascal had already claimed twice the strength of Vox in this autonomous city, where it managed to be the leading force in the November 2019 general elections, something it has only achieved so far also in its other stronghold, Murcia. Ceuta was, moreover, in the last three calls to the Congress, those of July 2023 and April and November 2019, the constituency where Vox obtained its highest percentage of votes in all of Spain.
Intense heat returns to the Peninsula (if it ever left this summer). The State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) has warned that Spain begins today its third heat wave which will likely last until Thursday, the 23rd.
This Sunday, masses were held in all churches in Norway in memory of King Harald. King Haakon, accompanied by his mother, the Queen Dowager Sonja, and his children, Ingrid Alexandra and Sverre Magnus, attended one of these ceremonies held at the parish closest to the Skaugum palace, the current official residence of the crown princes, located in Asker, twenty kilometers from Oslo. The notable absentee was Queen Mette-Marit who, still recovering from her lung transplant, is conserving her strength to attend the State funeral and burial of her late father-in-law, a date that has not yet been set by the Norwegian court.
If there is a day when it is legitimate to compare politics with football, it is today. England has not won the world championship since 1966, and it has not had a good prime minister for decades. If you ask the Conservatives, since Margaret Thatcher in the eighties. If you ask the centrist Labour, since Tony Blair in the nineties. And if you ask the left-wing Labour, you have to go much further back, to Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, or even Clement Attlee, creator of the welfare state.
Two helicopters collided this Sunday in Greece during firefighting efforts against the forest fire advancing towards Athens. About 6,700 hectares have already burned and thousands of people have had to be evacuated due to the fire declared four days ago, which this Sunday is about 35 kilometers from the Greek capital.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, has achieved his goal in Brussels. The European Commission has announced the release of 16.4 billion euros of European funds blocked by Viktor Orbán’s policies just three weeks after taking office. “It was one of the campaign promises and we have fulfilled it,” celebrated the European popular, very smiling alongside the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “If every time I come I leave with this amount of money, I will come more often,” he joked.