The visit of Isabel Díaz Ayuso to Mexico continues to chain episodes of tension and verbal clashes with President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has accused her of displaying “ignorance” and a lack of historical knowledge about the figure of Hernán Cortés in what is already the third clash between them in just three days.
The Minister of Education, Esther Niubó, has expressed that she is “very happy and very satisfied” with the preliminary agreement reached last night between the Government and the unions to resolve the educational conflict in Catalonia. In an interview on ‘El Suplement’, from Catalunya Ràdio, Niubó described the pact as a “giant step” for the educational community, which had been “underfunded” during the last decades in Catalonia, she admitted.
The former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has asked Judge José Luis Calama, who is investigating the Plus Ultra case, to postpone his testimony before the National Court, scheduled for June 2.
If the Lefebvrians go ahead with the ordination of new bishops, they will incur a charge of schism. The dialogue between the Vatican and the so-called Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X has reached a point of rupture that is hardly reversible
As if no time had passed, how playful chance is, the RCTB parish evokes the past with encouragement.
Eduardo Mendoza has been signing books at Sant Jordi for over half a century (he published his first novel, The Truth About the Savolta Case, in 1975), but never until today had he had to do so accompanied by a bodyguard. An ironic comment about the May 23rd celebration (one must say Book Day, he came to say, because the figure of the saint “has nothing to do with books or writers, Sant Jordi was an animal abuser and probably couldn’t read”) ignited the flame of indignation in pro-independence sectors, with the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (Junts’ youth wing) announcing a campaign for the Generalitat to withdraw his Creu de Sant Jordi, and from the anonymity of social media, there was even a call to burn the author’s books, taking advantage of the Sant Joan bonfires.
The cruise ship affected by a hantavirus outbreak arrived this morning at the Dutch port of Rotterdam for disinfection, thus putting an end to a journey that alerted international health authorities. On the Hondius are 25 crew members and two medical professionals, after all passengers disembarked on the island of Saint Helena on April 24, and in Tenerife on May 9 and 10. Upon the vessel’s arrival, the occupants could be seen wearing masks on the deck, while the ship was escorted through the port by a tugboat and a Dutch police boat.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero would have used his private residence “for sensitive dealings and receipt of shipments.” This is evident from the case file, accessed by La Vanguardia, in which Zapatero is being investigated as the alleged leader of “an influence trafficking network.” The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has summoned the former Prime Minister to testify on June 2 to provide explanations about the alleged kickbacks that the network would have collected for the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra, approved by the Council of Ministers in March 2021 for 53 million euros.
The details of the judicial summary have only worsened the legal situation of the former head of government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who in a week has to appear before Judge José Luis Calama to try to convince him that everything stated by himself, the UDEF, and the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office is a series of errors or malicious interpretations. About thirty jewels kept in the safe of his official office were seized by the Police, who must now assess them.
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.