Fifteen years after the events, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), based in Strasbourg, condemned Spain this Thursday for having imposed prison sentences on those who blocked access to the Parliament of Catalonia on June 15, 2011.
Unexpected turn at the start this Monday of the long-awaited trial for the alleged corruption scheme surrounding the payment of invoices during the projection and construction of the new Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus (Baix Camp), after fifteen years of judicial investigation. Two of the main accused, Josep Prat, then general director of the municipal holding Innova de Reus and former president of the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), and the architect Jorge Batesteza have reached a plea agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office after admitting to the crimes of prevarication, embezzlement of public funds, and document falsification, according to the defense lawyer of Josep Prat who reported this on the first day of the trial.
Perhaps what happened in the Bundestag (lower house of Parliament) a year ago, on May 6, 2025, when the Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz became Chancellor of Germany, was somewhat prophetic. The winner of the elections was elected Chancellor in a second vote after failing to secure enough votes from the deputies in the first vote, an unprecedented event in the history of the Federal Republic. Thus was born, visibly weakened, his leadership as head of a coalition government of conservatives and social democrats that has often been at odds since then.
The White House has suspended the operator of Donald Trump’s teleprompter amid suspicions that he was using his position to place bets on the speeches of the US president on the prediction platform Kalshi.
The Spanish Minister of Health, Mónica García, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, hold a press conference before the arrival on the island of Tenerife of the cruise ship affected by the hantavirus.
La Costa Brava concentrates a large part of the nautical activity of the summer in Catalonia. Between Palamós, Palafrugell, and Begur, about 3,000 boats anchor, according to recent studies. A coastal strip that sustains strong nautical and tourist pressure, with crowded beaches in summer and a multitude of boats that in high season want to anchor in postcard coves. For some time now, some town councils have reduced some anchoring areas, which in the past had become natural shelters for recreational boats on days of garbí, gregal, or tramontana winds. They do so – they explain – basically for reasons of safety for bathers and other users of the aquatic environment and to protect the posidonia beds.
It is 9:00 PM at night in a supermarket in Barcelona or Valencia. A group of thirteen neighbors patiently waits for the supermarket workers to take out the bags containing the leftover food of the day and place them inside some rectangular organic waste containers located at street level. Little by little, some neighbors open the bags and, in an organized manner, rummage through the food they find inside to quickly and efficiently distribute the foods that have been selected and discarded for unknown reasons.
The aggression by several riot police against a 17-year-old boy who was wearing a estelada at the Elche-Barça match is shameful. A police officer who allows that and does not take immediate measures (opening an investigation that ends up forgotten is not) has a problem. The violence used was…
It is evident that citizens’ access to housing is a serious problem, with prices rising in double digits and a huge shortage of supply, especially in the rental market. But this cannot justify the “anything goes” in housing policy. The…
Alberto Núñez Feijóo insisted this Thursday on calling for elections due to the corruption cases surrounding the Government and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE, but he also warned that he will do “everything possible” to change the Government: “When I say everything, I mean everything.” Feijóo, in any case, avoided explicitly mentioning the motion of no confidence as a tool to change the Government, although he again appealed for the partners to take action.