If he was badly wounded and disfigured in the bombings at the start of the war in Iran, the United States believes that the Iranian supreme leader, Mojtaba Jamenei, is alive and “increasingly involved” in the country’s leadership and negotiations, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated in the Senate this Tuesday, while talks to end the war remain uncertain.
Pope Leo XIV will also use Catalan in the blessing of the tower of Jesus of the Sagrada Família, at the climax of the Pontiff’s trip to Spain.
Casa Cupra Raval hosts this Tuesday, June 2, at 6:30 p.m. a special and exclusive edition of the new podcast El mundo de ayer by La Vanguardia, which recovers great historical events through the pages of the newspaper’s archive and the current perspective of the journalists
European regulation slows investment on the continent and causes much of the savings generated in the region to end up fleeing to the United States. “Regulation and European fragmentation reduce market agility,” said Tomás Muniesa, president of Caixabank, during his speech at the Cercle d’Economia Meeting, held this week in Barcelona.
The European Commission has listened to the requests of countries such as Spain and, especially, Italy, and is inclined to give greater budgetary leeway to Member States to address the consequences of Iran’s energy crisis. The Community Executive is considering allowing countries to allocate 0.3% of GDP to energy-related expenses outside the EU budgetary framework, something it will detail this Wednesday in the fiscal package it had planned to present.
The new Ebola outbreak detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised alarms among international health organizations. However, the science and health journalist from La Vanguardia, Josep Corbella, sends a clear message: “This Ebola virus is not going to circulate in Europe, it is not going to circulate outside Africa due to the characteristics of the virus.” In his opinion, there is no risk of a global pandemic, but there is a risk of a health crisis of enormous proportions in the heart of the African continent.
Bad Bunny is much more than a singer. He is a mass phenomenon, as we are seeing these days with his concerts in Spain. But he not only stirs musical passions, he has become a role model for the most disadvantaged classes thanks to the social awareness he exudes…
It was not possible to bring positions closer between Catalonia and Galicia regarding the proposed reform of the financing system in the colloquium held this Tuesday at the Cercle d’Economia. In a forceful tone, President Salvador Illa defended that the model agreed upon between the Government and ERC reduces inequalities between communities and warned that Catalonia “is not going to ask for permission to make proposals or to lead Spain.” His counterpart in Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, denounced that the bilaterality contemplated in the new model is negative for all communities because it encourages “divide and conquer.” And he asserted that “I am not going to ask for permission either.”
The Government will face a very complicated path to reach an agreement on the reform of regional financing. Yesterday, Monday, the Ministry of Finance, led by Arcadi España, announced that it had sent letters to the ministries of the autonomous communities in order to arrange bilateral meetings to agree on a new financing system. However, today the majority of communities with Popular Party governments have already decided that they will not attend these meetings with the Secretary of State for Finance, Jesús Gascón.
The combination of a rainy spring and the onset of heat has caused mosquito and cockroach populations to soar across much of the territory. This is warned by the Catalan Association of Environmental Health Companies (Adepap) on the occasion of World Pest Control Day, which will be celebrated next Saturday. The tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a confirmed vector of diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, remains the main threat in urban areas due to its ability to breed in small domestic water accumulations. Adepap also warns about the invasion of cockroaches in the underground and homes.