The federation of family associations of Catalonia (aFFaC) asks the Department of Education to promote a major agreement on public education outside the union negotiation table, an agreement in which families participate. They interpret the rejection of the pre-agreement in Thursday’s consultation by teachers as a lack of vision from the Government and unions to understand the teachers’ demands.
Not even when the European delegations are in Kyiv does Russia stop terrorizing the Ukrainian capital with its airstrikes. The alarm went off this Monday night at the Intercontinental hotel in Kyiv, where, among others, the President of the European Council, António Costa, was staying, who, like the other hotel guests, hurried to lock themselves in the shelter located in the hotel’s garage due to possible ballistic missiles launched from the Russian city of Tagarog.
The former Black professor at the University of Cambridge Jason Arday, at the center of a high-profile plagiarism scandal marked by accusations of racism, was found dead on Friday. His family has been denouncing a “campaign of harassment” against him for weeks.
Los Mossos d’Esquadra arrested on Sunday a 29-year-old man with a criminal record for the theft of at least four vehicles in one of the parking lots set up around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on the occasion of the MotoGP Grand Prix.
There are very few jazz musicians left who deserve to be considered giants. After the death, early this morning, of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the representation of the golden era of the genre is limited to figures such as pianist Herbie Hancock (Chicago, 1940) or the…
The Madrid City Council announced this Friday that travel on the buses of the Municipal Transport Company (EMT) and on bicimad will be free on September 7 and 8, coinciding with the return to school activity after the summer holidays.
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?
The president of the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community, Vicente Lafuente, expressed this Monday his rejection of migration policies based on the concept of “national priority” defended by Vox, while warning that this approach should not become an obstacle to the approval of the regional budgets.
The migration crisis that has erupted again in Ceuta, this time with a flood of more than 40,000 people according to initial estimates, and already with about twenty deaths, “has its origin in an interpretation of the Supreme Court’s decision, which prohibits the return of people who enter by swimming, which has been exploited by mafias and criminal organizations to take advantage of the extreme vulnerability of migrants.”
The Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested a man accused of rape following the victim’s identification, two months after the incident.
