Ambassadors of the European Union member states preliminarily agreed this Wednesday to unblock the €90 billion macro-loan for Ukraine, which had been frozen for months due to Hungary’s veto. The Prime Minister of this country, Viktor Orbán, had conditioned financial support for Kyiv on the repair of the Druzhba pipeline, which is now operational.
Officials of the airline Plus Ultra sought ways to halt the investigation opened regarding the company’s bailout with 53 million euros from the Government. One of them was the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The theaters are experiencing a golden moment in Valencia city. And not only in a metaphorical sense. The city has more venues, an increasingly diverse program, and an audience that, after the pause caused by the pandemic, has progressively regained the habit of attending performances. To the large spaces that for years have supported much of the stage offerings, new initiatives and a network of medium and small theaters have been added, allowing for very different proposals practically throughout the entire city.
The United Arab Emirates will leave OPEC and OPEC+, dealing a severe blow to the oil exporting groups and their de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, at a time when the war with Iran has caused a historic energy shock and destabilized the global economy.
The spokesperson for Izquierda Unida, Enrique Santiago, stated this Thursday that he “has no doubt” that the United States “could have a political interest” in causing “a political crisis in the Government of Spain” and also “to punish those who may have worked to evade the illegal sanctions unilaterally imposed by the United States on Venezuela” for their collaboration in the investigation against the former president of the government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for, among other crimes, influence peddling in the case of the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra.
“You have won with gallantry; when Spain plays, we all play. You have fought for it, with head and heart, and you have achieved it.” With these words, the King has congratulated the players of the Spanish national football team who, this Monday, have begun hours of celebration that continue at the Moncloa, where Pedro Sánchez receives them, and will culminate in the Plaza de Cibeles, after the parade through the streets of Madrid.
Two minors aged ten and 15 have died this Thursday following a fire declared in a house in Arroyo de la Miel in the town of Benalmádena, Málaga, according to 112, belonging to the Andalusian Emergency Agency, and the Town Hall of the municipality.
Seven weeks of strike. The workers of the municipal nursery schools of Madrid, on strike since last April 7, gathered again this Monday in the Plaza de la Villa to demand wage improvements and to protest against the extensions of the bidding contracts for these centers, coinciding with the meeting of the Commission on Social Policies, Family, and Equality in the Cardenal Cisneros building.
Norway bids farewell to its sovereign today. Harald V has passed away at the age of 89 at the National Hospital of Oslo after being admitted for hemolytic anemia, ending more than three decades of a reign defined by stability and closeness. He will go down in history as the heir who challenged the strict dynastic rules by imposing his marriage to the commoner Sonia Haraldsen, the act of determination that marked the character of his trajectory. His departure shocks a nation that saw in his figure a guarantor of neutrality and institutional integrity.
Something more than just another trial of the century for Mark Zuckerberg. Meta appeared this Tuesday before a court in Oakland (California) to face a high-risk oral hearing with great transformative capacity for its networks due to accusations that it deliberately introduced tools into Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users, regardless of the harm. “Looking the other way was more profitable,” according to the lawsuit.
