It is easy to get distracted. We discovered this week that the President of the United States considers South Korea an enemy and North Korea a friend, that when he is not thinking about the decoration for his new ballroom in the White House he is considering bombing the allied country…
Pedro Sánchez closed last July this “hazardous” political course immersed, as always, in the accelerated management of an endless succession of unforeseen crises, from the new wave of summer fires to the migratory avalanche that Ceuta suffered, with diplomatic consequences for Spain, while judicial and police investigations continue to hover around his political and family environment. The President of the Government has faced during the August holiday break a bulky portfolio full of pending duties for September.
The serious warnings of this scorching summer in Europe, with fires that have devoured France or Belgium, a heatwave that left thousands dead, and an unusually warm Mediterranean Sea, do not faze Brussels. Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission, in its second term, is carrying out a series of controversial policies, having put the handbrake on some of its green ambitions due to pressure from industry, major community countries, and also the European People’s Party (EPP), the majority party in the European Parliament, where it can rely both on the pro-European coalition and the far right. In Strasbourg, a far right more numerous – and louder – than ever works tirelessly to “dismantle the green agenda,” their political obsession in this legislature alongside reducing immigration.
This scorching summer has offered scenes never seen before in Europe. Seaplanes drawing water from the Seine to extinguish the fire in Fontainebleau, in the historic hunting forest of the kings of France. The Rhine and the Danube at their lowest flow levels and almost unfit for navigation. Forest fires in Wales, on the border between Belgium and Germany, on the beaches of Croatia.
The early Saturday morning rainfall in the northern Costa Daurada exceeded all forecasts by the Govern. The administrations did not issue any Es-Alert, the phones did not ring more than usual, the public did not receive any noisy warnings on their phones… and within a few hours, more than 400 people had to be evacuated and eleven were injured, one of them critically.
This Saturday, the Costa Daurada woke up to the consequences of the torrential rains that during the past night have caused several injuries, material damage, and flooding in municipalities along the coast of Baix Penedès and Tarragonès. In just a few hours, up to 200 liters per square meter were recorded, leaving behind serious impacts: from people trapped in their vehicles to tourists who were finishing their vacations and have been left without accommodation or, in some cases, without a way to return home.
Those who reach that age to start asking for help say that aging happens by landings and not by steps. One day you are fine and the next you have a drop you didn’t expect. You probably won’t be the first to notice it, but the friend you meet on the street who,…
The fire declared in the municipality of Segorbe (Castellón), which during the afternoon of this Friday forced the evacuation of the Valencian town of Gátova, remains out of control and already affects part of the Sierra Calderona Natural Park. The fire has temporarily burned 423 hectares and has generated a perimeter of 11.4 kilometers, according to data provided by the Minister of Emergencies and Interior, Juan Carlos Valderrama, after the meeting of the Integrated Operational Coordination Center (Cecopi).
“I don’t sleep thinking about whether the patients have survived,” confesses P., a general surgeon from Pinar del Río, in western Cuba. The doctor, with whom this newspaper spoke via WhatsApp, prefers to remain anonymous. The lack of medical personnel, medicines, and basic resources necessary to practice his profession, worsened by the shortage of supplies the island suffers and the U.S. sanctions, leads him to ask himself: “Why am I still here?”. The tension he experiences at work has caused him alopecia, weight loss, and episodes of depression.
Trade negotiations between the United States and Canada failed late Friday, clearing the way for the implementation of the 50% tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on about 20 billion dollars worth of Canadian products, after Ottawa refused to close a deal it considered unfavorable.