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Job cuts: How do companies avoid the layoff loop?

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…

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Campuzano and Álvaro launch Esquerra Democràtica to open ERC’s political space towards the center

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…

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VW appears to be ending its autonomous driving project with Bosch

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…

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The judges accept that the Basque grade does not count for enrolling in the university

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

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The businesswoman who claims that she took 90,000 euros to Ferraz confirms that Koldo’s lawyer offered her money to change her testimony

Carmen Pano, the businesswoman who has testified on numerous occasions, both in the National Court and in the Supreme Court, that she took 90,000 euros in cash to the PSOE headquarters on Ferraz Street in Madrid, on behalf of the obtainer of the Koldo caseVíctor de Aldama, confirmed this Monday before the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz that the lawyer of Koldo García, former ministerial advisor to José Luis Ábalos, offered him money in exchange for changing his testimony and that she told him that she came from someone from the PSOE to help the former Minister of…

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José Antonio Turrado, from Asaja: “We say the same thing as with Aznar, whoever has the right to be there must have the right to work”

The Leonese farmer José Antonio Turrado, general secretary of the Asaja agricultural union in Castilla y León, vindicates the regularization process of migrants settled in Spain promoted by the Government. The businessman defends that the union, in its vast majority, values ​​the measure given the need for labor in the countryside and the importance of these people for the maintenance of the rural environment. Turrado insists that when José María Aznar’s PP carried out a similar regularization in 2000 and 2001, they viewed it favorably and asks that the interests of the countryside be thought of “above ideologies” in the…

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Parents imprisoned for the death of a three-month-old baby due to alleged abuse in Sabadell (Barcelona)

The parents of a three-month-old baby who died in Sabadell (Barcelona) due to alleged abuse have been arrested and placed in provisional prison, reported and without bail in this case this Sunday. The Department of Health of the Generalitat has reported the death of the baby at the Parc Taulí hospital in Sabadell “due to alleged abuse” and that the parents have been arrested “due to the possible connection of the events” about which there is an ongoing investigation.Continue reading

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Aliança Catalana removes its candidate in Figueres for dating a minor

Aliança Catalana has removed its candidate in Figueres (Girona), Arnau Liesa, due to “a personal situation incompatible with the principles” of the party, and, shortly after, Liesa himself explained that he has resigned from all the positions he held in the party and has admitted that he has a relationship with a young minor, “although over 16.”Continue reading

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