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…
Commissioner Ferran López (59 years old), who already replaced Josep Lluis Trapero as head of the Mossos d’Esquadra during the 155 period (2017-18), will replace him again but this time as the general director of the force following the resignation of the major.
The roller coasters of Spanish politics do not rest. Now it is José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero who is descending vertiginously. The order from the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama, made public this week, states that the former Prime Minister (2004-2011) must undergo a thorough investigation for an alleged crime of influence peddling and money laundering in the management of the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra during the pandemic. The order is not an indictment. It is a reasoned exposition of the elements that lead to the opening of a judicial investigation, with the mandatory notice to the people who become investigated. (Until 2015, the term was accused, but the Criminal Procedure Law was modified in favor of softer language). Accused or investigated, Zapatero is currently on the conveyor belt of public scandal. Felipe González, his great adversary in the PSOE since Zapatero promoted the reform of the Statute of Catalonia, called the order “impressive” yesterday and said he felt “great sadness” for what is happening.
The demonstrations in support of Ceuta called by the Federation of Municipalities and Provinces – chaired by the PP – were held this Wednesday in the main Spanish capitals as well as in Ceuta, where thousands of people marched on the way to the border with Morocco in protest of the situation. These protests, initially called in support of the autonomous city and held in more than 700 locations across Spain, became a cry against the central Government’s management of this migratory crisis that has lasted more than a month, where PP and Vox have been the protagonists.
Catalonia has been carrying a deficit in the execution of state investment of almost 13 billion euros since 2009, a burden that, according to the construction sector, explains much of the accumulated delay in infrastructure. The Cambra de Contractistes d’Obres de Catalunya (CCOC) warns that the State only executed 57.4% of the budgeted investments last year, while calling for doubling the volume of public works to recover lost ground.
A protest concert against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Festival, and a rejection of the music contest itself for “becoming part of a propaganda apparatus that normalizes genocide,” gathered several dozen people this Friday in the center of Vienna.
Munich will be the first city in the European Union where Waymo’s robotaxis, owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company, will land next year. Their arrival in Europe will begin a few months earlier in London, where the autonomous taxi company has been driving the same cars that will offer the service for a year, but for now driven by professional drivers to train their system. The goal is for the passenger to request the vehicle with a mobile app and for the car to take them to their destination. The scene is already common in 11 cities in the United States and will soon be in another 21. It is also common in China. The technology, and very likely the controversy, are now coming to Europe.
A pioneer has died, whose work is summed up in three letters: CNN.
“It all started in Barcelona!”, Pedro Sánchez has assured will be remembered in the future. While a far-right international has been operating freely around the world for years, accelerated after Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, this Saturday a progressive international, convened by the head of the Spanish Executive and the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has started in the capital of Catalonia, as an alternative to the global reactionary wave and the new geopolitical and ideological order encouraged by the President of the United States.
At least eleven people have died after a drone airstrike on a market in central Sudan, where the escalation of airstrikes raises the death toll in one of the planet’s worst humanitarian crises.