The labor market maintained the record-breaking path for job creation in July. Spain surpassed 22.5 million Social Security affiliates for the first time, according to data published this Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migrations, led by Elma Saiz. Affiliations increased by 41,727 people, 0.19% more than the previous month, reaching a total of 22,508,065.
With that characteristic slyness, Mariano Rajoy once said about the party’s slush fund he presided over: “We knew everything, except what appeared in the newspapers.” The Gürtel case politically brought down the leader of the PP, but he has never had to assume judicial responsibility for the illegal financing network that operated for years within the PP and provided undeclared bonuses to a large part of its leaders and served to pay for the renovation of the party’s headquarters on Génova street in Madrid, as well as numerous electoral events and to enrich some necessary intermediaries, such as the party’s own treasurer, Luis Bárcenas. Several judges have investigated this case and its derivatives, but Rajoy has not been accused of anything in these years. Today he will testify again before the Audiencia Nacional. It is necessary to review, now with perspective, what has happened so that M. Rajoy’s involvement has not gone further and is only fodder for talk shows or social media memes. We are going to divide one of the most relevant corruption cases of recent decades in Spain into three phases:
Once fire crews intervened early this morning in the fire at an industrial warehouse in the Ramarga industrial estate, at kilometer point 5 of the M-103, in the Madrid town of Ajalvir.
The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.
There are no oxygen tanks. The United States has backtracked on its intention to cancel the deployment of 4,000 soldiers in Poland, but this does not change its plans to progressively withdraw its conventional defense capabilities in Europe. The Pentagon wants to accelerate the troop withdrawal from bases on the continent and could present its plans to allies in a few weeks, which will force European countries to agree on replacing the US deterrent capability and embrace the idea of a more European NATO.
Péter Magyar’s conservative Tisza party, winner of the general elections in Hungary last Sunday, April 12, increased its parliamentary supermajority by gaining three more seats after the recount of postal votes, votes from foreign missions, and transferred votes, according to the National Election Office.
“Books are so powerful because they enrage tyrants! Tyrants and demagogues hate all arts, because the arts are more powerful than they will ever be.” Scottish author Ali Smith is the Sant Jordi guest speaker and talks about her early love for books, how she was shaped by that love, her mother’s concern that she would become a “bookworm” (although when her mother died, she discovered a book at the back of the wardrobe, hidden among her shoes), that “when we open a book, we open ourselves” and that over the years (she is 63) she has come to the conclusion that, like everyone else, she is made of 75% water and suspects that she is at least another 75% books.”
A pioneer has died, whose work is summed up in three letters: CNN.
“How strange it is to be young when one is old,” confesses Edgar Morin, and it is very relevant now that he is somewhere in Eternity. A couple of book fairs ago, in Frankfurt, we discovered Seeds of Sagacity, a title we published in March of this year in…
It is the first time that the photo of authors illustrating the cover of La Vanguardia on Sant Jordi’s day features a Nobel Prize in Literature winner. And, logically, a place of honor is reserved for her, right on the first sofas that the Alma hotel has arranged on its rooftop. Han Kang arrives with time. She looks happy. She is visibly grateful to be meeting with barely thirty people, instead of the 700 who crowded the CCCB the day before, waiting to see her appear. She is a sensitive thinker. Crowds overwhelm her. But here, the views of the Sagrada Família in the background, with the cross already crowning the tower of Jesus, seem to have a calming effect. This, and the presence of Xavi Ayén, the man who whispered to the Nobels and who, since interviewing her a few days ago in London, seems to be her confidant.
