The Prison Surveillance Judge José Luis Castro has rejected the application of the semi-freedom regime to former ETA members Soledad Iparraguirre “Anboto” and Juan Ramón Carasatorre, which means their return to prison.
The Government is moving forward with the education agreement reached with CC.OO. and UGT as it committed, despite the conflict remaining alive in the education sector. The Executive Council approved this Tuesday the increase of the specific salary supplement for all teachers, as reported by the department’s minister, Esther Niubó, via the social network X. And it is expected to be included in teachers’ pay slips in May.
The French-Swedish model agent Daniel Siad, identified as a recruiter of young people for the network of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead on Monday night at his home in Colombes, on the outskirts of Paris, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office confirmed this Wednesday.
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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.
The European Commission recommends that Spain limit the use of the reduced VAT and specifically points to hotels and restaurants, as, in its view, these preferential rates have a “very limited redistributive effect” on society despite their high cost to the State. That is, they benefit higher incomes more than lower ones because they consume it the most, according to community sources. Meanwhile, the impact of this tax that is not collected is enormous: the 10% VAT for hospitality is costing Spain 0.4% of GDP, or the equivalent of almost 7 billion euros each year.
Madrid will take to the streets this afternoon to celebrate Spain’s victory in the Football World Cup, with the second star for ‘La Roja’, in a celebration that will have the Plaza de Cibeles as its epicenter and with an expected attendance of more than 60,000 according to calculations by the Madrid City Council, causing inevitable impacts on pedestrian and motorized mobility in the area, such as the progressive closure of Cibeles since midnight and disruptions at the Carlos V roundabout. The bus route with the 2026 World Cup champions will depart from Plaza de Moncloa and end at Cibeles.
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.
After five days of relentless fighting against three fires in Madrid, Ávila, and Toledo, which eventually became one (in terms of combating them, not physically), there are positive results. The race against time carried out on Monday night by hundreds of personnel finally showed “positive progress,” said the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, who could not hide his joy.
The Pope has already arrived in Madrid. Around 10:30 AM, his plane landed at Adolfo Suárez Madrid -Barajas airport, where he was awaited by the King and Queen of Spain and other authorities, such as the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the Mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, the Government Delegate, Francisco Martín, and the highest authorities of the Church, led by Cardinal José Cobo.