A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Austria as the alleged perpetrator of extortion against the German baby food manufacturer HiPP, which has kept Central Europe on edge for several weeks, several local media reported this Saturday.
The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, participates this Sunday in a public event in Madrid on the occasion of the Congress of Socialist Youth, in a week in which the developments in the Leire Díez case and the investigation of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero have led Junts to join the PNV’s request to bring forward the elections.
With its characteristic black and white fur, the first giant panda born in Indonesia is growing and thriving ahead of its public debut this month.
The indefinite strike in Valencian public education experienced a new day of political pressure and mobilization this Thursday at the doors of Les Corts Valencianes. Hundreds of teachers gathered from early morning near the regional parliament to demand that the Generalitat reopen negotiations and reach an agreement to end the conflict, which is now entering its ninth consecutive day.
Gabriel Zucman, former academic at the University of California (Berkeley), is director of the International Tax Observatory in Paris. He is the ideologue behind the 2% global minimum tax on the ultra-rich with assets exceeding $1 billion, which would affect 3,000 people worldwide. This interview took place on the occasion of the Global Progressive Mobilisation, which kicked off yesterday in Barcelona.
After Los domingos, comes La luz, which will light up cinemas next Friday. If the first film, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, showed from different points of view the reasons that can push a modern-day teenager to shut herself away in a cloistered monastery, the no less extraordinary film by Fernando Franco, director of great films such as La herida or La consagración de la primavera, tells us about a priest, masterfully played by Alberto San Juan, trapped by his past as a sexual abuser.
La DANA of Valencia on October 29, 2024 left a deep psychological impact on many minors. This impact has forced schools to implement therapeutic actions to manage trauma in the classrooms. Care that has been carried out in parallel with the reconstruction of the facilities damaged by the flooding.
A United States citizen on vacation in Mallorca has requested political asylum in Spain due to fear of the policies implemented in that country by Donald Trump. The man, 34 years old, appeared a few days ago at the Civil Guard barracks in Felanitx accompanied by his lawyer to make the formal request, according to Ultima Hora. The Civil Guard has forwarded the request to the National Police, which is responsible for carrying out these procedures.
The first day on which the extraordinary regularization of immigrants in Spain can be processed is characterized by a low influx of applicants at Post Offices and points enabled for this purpose, as La Vanguardia has been able to confirm. The vast majority of potential beneficiaries are still stuck in previous procedures, such as obtaining the historical census and the vulnerability certificate.
The first time a politician was convicted of influence peddling in Spain was 31 years ago. The historic socialist mayor of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Juan Ignacio Pujana, was sentenced to six years of disqualification, one month of arrest, and a fine. The Barcelona Court considered that he had facilitated an award for the construction and concession of several underground parking lots to a company that in turn had to subcontract the work to a construction company owned by a friend of his. The judges coined the term “chain influence peddling.” The mayor, using his position, pressured municipal technicians and officials. He did so, initially, out of friendship, since the sentence considered that he did not receive money in return, and he was acquitted of the charges of bribery and forgery. Evidently, Pujana disappeared from the public radar. Since then, it has been clear that the crime of influence peddling is one of the most difficult to discern, since it is necessary to prove pressure on an official or public officer and also to have the authority to carry out that coercion. Politicians who are already former, that is, who have left their positions in governments, often maintain a significant capacity for influence in those administrations, so they are often recruited by consultancies and companies to open the doors of the public sector for them. Is this the case of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero?