José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero sold to the businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, located at the center of the plot investigated by judge José Luis Calama, a house in Almería in 2011, the last year of his term as President of the Government, according to the report from the National Office for Fraud Investigation (ONIF) submitted to the case file, which does not specify the exact date of the transaction.
Neither the words of businessman Juan Roig asking to monetize the arrival of tourists nor the possibility of opening the debate on the tourist tax hinted at by the mayor of Valencia, María José Catalá, after the Fallas, have affected the positioning of PP and Vox in the Valencian Courts. Both parties will reject this Thursday the proposals from PSPV and Compromís to recover this tax on tourist overnight stays that was approved by the Botànic but never implemented. A moratorium was established and, after the regional elections, the new parliamentary majority repealed it.
The non-appointment of Mónica Oltra as Compromís’s candidate for the Mayor of València is generating tension within the coalition. The fact that a first major pre-campaign event has been organized without her further fuels doubts. Compromís will hold events on May 22 and 23 in 19 towns of the Valencian Community to kick off the 2027 municipal campaign. In the València event, which will be held on Saturday at the Malva-Rosa promenade, the presence of the virtual candidate for Mayor is not planned, as this newspaper reported yesterday.
At least 90 people died in a gas explosion that occurred on Friday at the Liushenyu mine, in Shanxi province (central China), Chinese state media reported.
The artist Lorenzo Quinn announced this Thursday in Castelldefels during the presentation of one of his sculptural installations a new project that will also be installed in the town: the sculptural set Gloria, which will recreate an iconic image of Ronaldinho and Messi, closely linked to the city, resulting from the first official goal of the Argentine star with the first blaugrana team.
The warning has been measured, without fireworks or grand gestures, but it could hardly be more serious. The Basque Nationalist Party lit an amber light this Sunday in the midst of the political fog surrounding Pedro Sánchez after the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. “It would be irresponsible” for the Government to continue “beyond 2026,” warned the president of the PNV, Aitor Esteban, in a message as restrained in form as it was severe in substance.
FC Barcelona celebrated, on the night of this past Wednesday, their great season with a party at the Casanova Beach Club in Castelldefels. An event that brought together many people at the doors of the venue who wanted to greet the team’s footballers, the vast majority accompanied by their partners.
The Ministry of Finance has set to work to begin holding bilateral meetings with the autonomous communities (and cities) to address the reform of regional financing. The department has reported that this Monday it sent letters to the ministries of the common regime communities, as well as Ceuta and Melilla, with the aim of arranging dates.
Every Sant Jordi is unique. This one will be the one of pollen, as, added to the wind, it has been, books aside, one of the protagonists of the day. Although the streets are always filled with books and roses and Casa Batlló once again dresses its facade for the occasion, the circumstances change: the weather –sun is expected for much of the day–, the authors signing, or even the sections where stalls are set up can change. This 2026, for example, the traditional and iconic image of La Rambla full of stalls will not take place due to construction work and, instead, will be replaced by a new literary axis that will start at Portal de l’Àngel and extend through Plaza Nova and Plaza de la Catedral and up to Via Laietana.
Two days before the expiration of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, President Donald Trump has confirmed that the American delegation, led by his vice president J.D. Vance, “is already heading” to Islamabad (Pakistan) and “will arrive tonight”. However, sources consulted by The New York Times state that it has not yet taken off and “is now expected to travel on Tuesday”.