José Saramago begins his great novel, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis with the phrase “Here the sea ends and the land begins.” There are few places – except for the Cais do Sodré in Lisbon that he evoked – that can be so well described with these few words as Algeciras.
Smiling and confident, President Juanma Moreno’s face betrayed on Friday morning at his first campaign event in a neighborhood in the East district of Seville – middle class with a pool in the block – his conviction that tomorrow Sunday things are going to go from good to very good for him.
February 1972. First official trip of a President of the United States of America to the People’s Republic of China. Richard Nixon lands in a China still immersed in the turbulences of the so-called Cultural Revolution; an agrarian-based country with a very precarious industrial infrastructure, internationally isolated, at odds with the USSR since Stalin’s death in 1953. A collectivized country where almost everyone rides a bicycle. A poor economy that barely represents 9% of the volume of the United States.
During the negotiation between the Government and ERC for the new financing model, many hours were spent making simulations and combining variables until it was achieved that Andalusia appeared as the most benefited community. The republicans clung to the letter of…
The open crisis within the Mossos d’Esquadra due to the infiltration of two agents in a teachers’ assembly has forced the police director, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the senior officers of the force to meet with the mossos’ unions to calm tensions. Among the workers’ representatives, it was not well received that Trapero announced on Wednesday the opening of a confidential investigation that questioned the agents’ actions, who claim that they comply with current regulations.
The international aftermath of Isabel Díaz Ayuso is far from fading and threatens to overshadow even the San Isidro festival. The Madrid president has accumulated this Friday almost as many political reproaches as carnations have filled the vests and scarves of chulapos and chulapas. The offensive has united the Madrid left, has also crossed the regional perimeter, and has added socialist leaders from other territories with a common reproach. The fact of having turned an institutional mission into a new front of ideological combat on which the regional president has remained silent today.
Jordi Martí has presided over the Junts municipal group in Barcelona since Xavier Trias left the City Council in July 2024. Even then, discussions began about the candidate for the 2027 municipal elections. The former CiU mayor backed his protégé within the neoconvergent ranks, who so far is the only one to have publicly expressed his desire to lead the list, along with other names linked to the party, such as Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas or Jaume Giró. The party leadership, however, leans in favor of Josep Rius, also a councilor in the Catalan capital, as well as a deputy and vice president of Junts. From Waterloo, they perhaps thought they could convince Martí to give up. Let’s see.
The Court of Auditors has ordered the former director of the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (OAC), Daniel de Alfonso, to pay 142,484.47 euros unduly collected as seniority bonuses. The institution has partially upheld an appeal filed by the OAC itself and the Prosecutor’s Office against a ruling issued on October 31, which required De Alfonso to return 82,341.27 euros. The two appellants initially claimed 205,000 euros.
The battle between Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sánchez has opened an unexpected front: the FAO.
The week of May 18th looks to be key for the budgets and, by extension, for the legislature in Catalonia. The Govern and Esquerra Republicana are finalizing the last aspects of what will be the first accounts to be produced since 2023. Monday will be a key day: it will start with the seal of the pact to develop the orbital railway line and, at 5:30 p.m., the republicans will convene their national council – the highest body between congresses – to assess whether they give the final yes to the budget project.