A group of striking teachers blocked access to Casa Batlló this morning as part of protests to improve their working conditions. The action is part of a protest march associated with the strike that will take place this Tuesday along Passeig de Gràcia, called by the minority unions CGT, Intersindical, and COS.
The approach of summer boosts the labor market. If in the Spanish economy May is always a good month for employment, this year’s has been even better than usual. An increase of 232,000 affiliates, which is the second-best May in the historical series and leads to a new record in the total number of contributors, who have already exceeded 22.3 million. And a significant fact: practically half of the increase in contributors in May comes from foreign workers, with 111,000 new affiliates. Among Spaniards, the employment growth rate is clearly lower.
The UN warns of the imminent formation of an El Niño episode, a natural warming with a great global impact that adds to the climate change caused by human activities. And that double factor especially justifies the alert.
Leonor has broken her own record by becoming the first member of the Spanish royal family, male or female, to skydive. La Zarzuela released images this Tuesday of the Princess of Asturias in which she can be seen in the air, landing after jumping from a height of about four hundred meters from a training plane. A few weeks ago, the princess completed the basic parachuting course at the Méndez Parada Military Parachuting School, located at the Alcantarilla Air Base (Murcia), as a complement to the military training she is undertaking at the General Air and Space Academy (AGA) in San Javier.
The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, speaks at the second day of the annual meeting of the Cercle d’Economia, which brings together business and political leaders to discuss current issues at a time when the leader of the Popular Party is trying to convince Junts and PNV to support a motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez to force an early election.
A new Russian airstrike with drones and missiles against the main cities of Ukraine left at least nine people dead and dozens injured last night. In the capital, the number of dead was four and the number of injured, about 60, according to the report published on Telegram by its mayor, Vitali Klichkó. In Dnipro, there were five fatalities.
The secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, has challenged the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to propose the instrumental motion of no confidence to remove Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa and call general elections to the president of the party, Carles Puigdemont, in Waterloo.
The strategy to curb common crime, but above all the armed groups that increasingly control more territory, will likely be what tips the balance in the second round of elections in Colombia. It will also be the greatest challenge for the next four years of government for whoever wins the contest.
Bogotá —where the popular neighborhoods massively voted for the leftist candidate Iván Cepeda— woke up yesterday to the reality of the new politics of heart-stopping surprises, “ultra” presidential candidates emerging out of nowhere, and snowballs driven by social networks.
A deathly silence has taken over the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. On Sunday afternoon, a vehicle stopped without turning off the engine at number 19 Còrdova Street, next to a square where drug buying and selling is common. An individual armed with an automatic pistol emptied the magazine, eight shots, aiming, according to some witnesses, at the place where two minors were playing. A ten-year-old girl received a clean shot in the elbow, with an entry and exit wound, and a bone fracture.