Illa takes President Sheinbaum to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Illa takes President Sheinbaum to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

As he did with the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, last Friday, after the bilateral summit with Spain held at the Palau de Pedralbes, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, took the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, to the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), the leading high-performance computing center in Spain and one of the most important in Europe.

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Spain will formally ask Europe to break the association agreement with Israel

Spain will formally ask Europe to break the association agreement with Israel

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the Council of Ministers will request the suspension of the association agreement with Israel. Sánchez explained that he will transfer this request to the European Union and has asked for the support of the 27 for this initiative. The Israeli Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, has already criticized Sánchez for his announcement.

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Hungarian Rhapsody in Barcelona

Hungarian Rhapsody in Barcelona

Rhapsody is a ‘stitched song’: epic poems assembled in ancient Greece, popular airs and intertwined melodies, free music that united seemingly unrelated themes in Romanticism. The Hungarian musician Franz Liszt composed some famous rhapsodies. A Hungarian patriot of German origin -in Central Europe, identities formed a very complex mosaic- Liszt wanted to pay homage to Hungarian popular music with about twenty rhapsodies. Hungarian has been the music this week.

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Spain and Brazil seek to give impetus and shape to the coalition to tax the super-rich

Spain and Brazil seek to give impetus and shape to the coalition to tax the super-rich

The finance ministers of Spain and Brazil, Arcadi España and Dario Durigan, held a meeting this Saturday, parallel to the progressive summit and the summit in defense of democracy held in Barcelona, to boost an initiative that both countries already agreed upon last July in Seville: The launch of an international coalition to tax the super-rich with a specific tax to address inequality and wealth concentration.

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Sheinbaum denies a diplomatic crisis with Spain: “There never has been one”

Sheinbaum denies a diplomatic crisis with Spain: “There never has been one”

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has denied that there has been a diplomatic crisis with Spain on account of Spain’s recognition of the suffering caused by the conquest of America. “There is no diplomatic crisis, there never has been. What is important is that the strength of the indigenous peoples for our homeland be recognized,” she explained upon her arrival at the IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy taking place in Barcelona this Saturday.

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Sánchez calls to combat “fear with more democracy and inequality with more justice”

Sánchez calls to combat “fear with more democracy and inequality with more justice”

The IV Meeting in Defense of Democracy began this Saturday in Barcelona with a clear purpose: to present to the world strategic principles for combating the far-right wave that questions multilateralism and democracy, a current embodied by the US president, Donald Trump, whom no one mentions in this conclave but whose political action is very present. Led by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the meeting began with his intervention, in which he advocated for a “concerted action” by all progressive governments in the world in favor of “strengthening the alliance” that convenes them today, and combating “fear with more democracy, and inequality with more justice”. In the background of this commitment is the joint proposal to reform the UN due to its ineffectiveness in facing global challenges and acting in the face of the proliferation of international conflicts.

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