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“El PSOE está absolutamente diezmado”: Andalusia worsens the socialist crisis

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago03 mins

The Andalusian elections have left an especially harsh picture for the PSOE. Juanma Moreno’s Popular Party came close to an absolute majority, falling just two seats short of governing alone, while the socialists recorded one of the worst results in their history in a community that for decades was one of their major electoral strongholds. For Jaume Aroca, head of the Politics section at La Vanguardia, the scenario left after the polls reveals a deep crisis in Andalusian socialism: “The PSOE is absolutely decimated.”

One less debt with Samaranch

Alen Craig3 months ago3 months ago04 mins

Juan Antonio Samaranch said of the 1992 Olympic Games that they had managed to change the mentality of the people of Barcelona. “Now they are more optimistic, less whiny,” he defended, in an interview with La Vanguardia in March 1996. The social – almost Olympic – sport of overseeing each and every one of the 73 neighborhoods of Barcelona has not been lost, but if that summer achieved anything, everyone who made it possible agrees, it was to establish a confidence that never left. At the forefront of the metamorphosis, with permission from Maragall, was precisely the now deceased president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who passed away in 2010, a figure who was honored yesterday just in the year that marks 40 years since his “a la ville de… Barcelona.”

Intercepted on the high seas a ship with a huge cocaine shipment by the Civil Guard

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago02 mins

A cargo ship with a massive shipment of cocaine has been intercepted on the high seas and docked at the naval base the Duque de Ahumada ship of the Civil Guard this Sunday. The vessel, according to sources familiar with the investigations cited by El País, could amount to tens of tons of this substance and would reach record figures, although its weighing is still pending.

Merz on the ultra victory in Saxony-Anhalt: “There will be consequences, but surrender is not an option”

Alen Craig6 days ago6 days ago04 mins

The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, admitted this Monday that the electoral victory of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt is a shock for him and for his party, the Christian Democratic CDU, which collapsed at the polls, but also for Germany in general. At a press conference in Berlin alongside the still regional president of the state, the Christian Democrat Sven Schulze, the Chancellor said that this victory “will have consequences” and that “it is not possible to simply return to the agenda without more.”

The TSJCV confirms its decision not to investigate Mazón for the management of the DANA

Alen Craig5 months ago5 months ago04 mins

The Plenary Session of the Civil and Criminal Chamber has unanimously ruled out by its five members not applying the special jurisdiction to the former president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, as it did not find in the acquisition of the status of regional deputy “any abuse of right”. The TSJ dismisses the appeals and confirms its decision not to investigate the Alicante politician for the management of the DANA

Putin, from stumble to stumble

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago05 mins

With the war in Ukraine bogged down and growing internal problems, Vladimir Putin is suffering serious setbacks on the international stage, from the U.S. harassment of his allies – Iran, Venezuela, Cuba – to his military retreat in Africa.

Albares asks the PP to stop “boycotting” Spanish foreign policy and the relationship with France

Alen Craig2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, did not hold back this morning when attacking the foreign policy line of the Popular Party (PP) and stating that they are “absolutely incapable of governing.” Commenting on the crisis triggered by the xenophobic opinion about the French team from former president Mariano Rajoy, Albares has asked the PP to stop “boycotting” Spanish foreign policy and the relationships it has with neighboring countries such as France, Morocco, or Algeria.

The Venice Film Festival is dedicated to political cinema

Alen Craig2 weeks ago2 weeks ago08 mins

La Venice Film Festival aims to be a reflection of the major issues of contemporary times, whether war, censorship, or democratic crises. Under this premise, the festival selects those films that, as its artistic director, Alberto Barbera, points out, do not merely act as simple chronicles, but seek to challenge a world marked by conflicts, migrations, social tensions, or the consequences of climate change.

The Government suffers two key defeats at the hands of Junts

Alen Craig5 months ago5 months ago05 mins

The Government suffered yesterday in Congress one of the most resounding parliamentary defeats of the legislature after PP, Vox and Junts joined forces to overturn the housing decree promoted by one of the partners, Sumar.

A historic and colossal failure of Real Madrid

Alen Craig4 months ago4 months ago03 mins

The two blank years without major titles for Real Madrid, already difficult to digest for its fan base, have culminated in a defeat that does not count for the record but does erode its prestige in an incalculable way. The fact that the first team…

Spaniards against democracy

Sánchez closes the Cercle d’Economía conference after Feijóo’s visit

Javier de Benito, plastic surgeon, 78 years old: “If someone believes that a rhinoplasty will get them a job or make their partner come back, they need to be explained that surgery won’t solve that”

The school year starts with strike, AI rules, and the PISA controversy

New CUPRA Raval, the urban electric car made in Spain with more than 400 km of electric range

Vox clarifies to Pérez Llorca: What was approved is “a little more than the rootedness that the PP insists on”

Young people in a legal limbo

The ‘torrentontitos’ who want to throw out

Melania reappears amid crisis over Trump’s closeness to a young advisor

Balas will testify in the trial against David Sánchez amid the operation against the plot that allegedly sought to “destroy him”