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At the HR Forum Banking, the question of the future viability of employees was one of the most discussed topics of the day. What remains for people when machines take over more and more? And how do banks need to empower their workforce to deal constructively with this shift? The empirical framework for the discussions was provided by a research team from the Institute for Employment and Employability, which systematically analyzed the banking sector over three years. Led by Prof. Dr. Jutta Rump, Managing Director of the institute, came to a crucial understanding: not every form of digitalization means job…
Congress has taken a decisive step to settle Spain’s historical debt with the Sahrawi people, whom it abandoned without fulfilling its obligations as a colonizing power in the death throes of Francoism and the dawn of the transition. The presentation in charge of debating the bill presented almost two and a half years ago by Sumar to grant Spanish nationality to the Sahrawis approved its opinion this Tuesday with the votes of the PSOE and other left-wing groups, the abstention of Junts and the rejection of PP and Vox. Continue reading
No company has recently made as many headlines as VW. Nevertheless, it remains an important employer in Germany. What work does HR have to do here to keep employees engaged? The white beetle is in the middle of the field. With white paint and striking silver bumpers. “Years of development and research, years of experience from 7 million owners around the world have made many of the Volkswagen’s features famous,” says the speaker in the 1968 commercial. A gentleman in a suit comes from the left and sits in the driver’s seat. He closes the door and drives off. The…
The Civil Guard is investigating the robbery of a jewelry store in a shopping center in Pinto (Madrid) that occurred this Monday late afternoon. This is the latest in a series of blows that jewelry and watch establishments have suffered in the last two months, especially those located in shopping centers, because they are usually located in points close to an easy exit route for escape. This last coup took place in the Princesa de Éboli center.Continue reading
María del Pilar Álvarez Menéndez speaks without fear of a society that she considers deteriorated and of a justice incapable of being the tool to recover it. Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 57 years ago and raised in Tenerife, she admits that she is happier as a writer than as a prosecutor, a position she has held in Huelva for two of her three decades of career, first in road safety and now in the environment. These days he is facing trials for illegal water extraction in the area of Doñana, for which, in some cases, reports of…
“The biggest surprise of the tournament so far”: The international press is astonished by Germany’s World Cup exit against Paraguay. In Italy there was an improvement compared to previous tournaments, in France there was the third disappointment in a row.
Update from June 29, 2026: At the second works meeting of the year at the Audi plant in Ingolstadt, labor director Xavier Ros reported that 4,500 of the 6,000 jobs to be eliminated have already been implemented or contractually agreed. According to the future agreement between company management and employee representatives from March 2025, the goal should be achieved by the end of 2027. Article from October 16, 2025: Volkswagen, Ford, Bosch, Continental and ZF Friedrichshafen are there, as are Siemens, Lufthansa, Deutsche Bank and DHL: The German economy is cutting thousands of jobs. Some companies are reacting to weak…
The independent deputies of Esquerra Republicana Carles Campuzano and Francesc-Marc Álvaro presented this Monday Esquerra Democràtica (ED), an association from the republican orbit that was born as a vehicle to open the political space of the formation led by Oriol Junqueras towards the center-right. The entity has been presented to society with an event at the Casa Elizalde in the Catalan capital, where its founding manifesto has been unveiled. ED, according to that text, was born with the conviction that “Catalonia needs collective hope” and “recover confidence, ambition and a sense of country”, something that has been achieved from “the…
Volkswagen has been in the headlines for some time now because of its austerity measures. Now it also seems to be affecting the “Automated Driving Alliance”. According to a report in Bild am Sonntag, insiders have said that VW wants to end the alliance. The alliance was founded in 2022 by the Volkswagen software subsidiary Cariad and Bosch. A total of 1,500 IT experts are working there on the development of driving assistance systems for the future. According to Volkswagen, these should “act as naturally as a car driver” with the help of AI. The aim was to keep up…
Several courts in Bilbao have upheld the precautionary measures requested by families of students affected by failures in the Basque entrance exam (PAU) who asked the Basque public university EHU (formerly UPV) that this grade not be taken into account in the enrollment process of those who turned to Justice. The Contentious-Administrative Courts of Bilbao have ruled in favor of the students in around twenty cases (one for each student who has appealed) on the eve of the deadline to enroll at the EHU. Continue reading