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The EU member states must do so by June 7th EU Pay Transparency Directive (ETRL) have been incorporated into national law. That’s the plan. But many countries will not meet this deadline – including Germany. “The implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into national law will take place during this legislative period,” was recently stated in response to a request from our editorial team from the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. Infringement proceedings: What threatens Germany if the deadline is missed? Should that ETRL If it is not written into national law in this…
The socialist candidate for the Andalusian presidency, María Jesús Montero, has presented the elections next Sunday the 17th as a referendum on public health. “What we are at stake is the defense of our public services, and very particularly health, because this service is the one that deteriorates the fastest and the one that has the greatest impact on people’s lives in the short term,” he said in an interview on Cadena Ser. For her part, the spokesperson for the PP in Congress, Ester Muñoz, has accused the PSOE of lying and waging a “dirty campaign” against the popular candidate,…
What is our culture of remembrance? In the SPIEGEL talk, historian Götz Aly, author Susanne Siegert and journalist Hadija Haruna-Oelker discuss Nazi involvement in the family – and where remembering becomes memory theater.
Catalan teachers begin the second consecutive day of strike, although this Wednesday they focus only on Baix Llobregat and Penedès. The day began, as usual, with a road closure. A group of fifty teachers have blocked the B-23 in Sant Joan Despí (Barcelona) since 7 in the morning. Continue reading
The businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, investigated in the Plus Ultra casehides more than half a million euros deposited in bank funds in Miami (United States), according to what has been revealed The World and EL PAÍS has been able to confirm. The businessman, a friend of the former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, is being investigated for crimes of criminal organization and money laundering, among others, in a case in the National Court that analyzes whether the 53 million euros with which the Government rescued the Plus Ultra airline after the pandemic were used to launder funds.…
According to a report by the US Congress, Donald Trump’s planned missile defense system could cost up to $1.2 trillion – many times the amount previously mentioned. Space-based defense would be particularly expensive.
This Tuesday, Miquel Salazar presented his resignation as senior trustee of the Audit Office for personal reasons. Member of the Audit Office since 2013 and senior trustee since 2022, Salazar leaves the institution “due to personal and family circumstances.”Continue reading
Geopolitical tensions, shortages of skilled workers, economic uncertainty and increasing regulatory requirements are fundamentally changing the framework for international employee assignments. Cross-border operations are becoming increasingly diverse and short-term, meaning that traditional guidelines and standard processes are often no longer sufficient. Regulatory requirements are increasing while management must make quick decisions, often based on incomplete information. Risks, costs and effects on employees often only become apparent later, when scope for action is limited and countermeasures are expensive.Mobility management is therefore increasingly being used as a strategic tool: to develop talent, to specifically manage international projects and to network organizations globally.…
The Burgos bookstore Hijos de Santiago Rodríguez celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2025, synonymous with the oldest bookstore in Spain, with presentations, events and appointments with writers. 176 runs the risk of meeting with a closed blind and a “Cessation of business” sign. Virtual sales, large publication sales chains and illegal downloads put pressure on a local business, emblematic of Burgos, which has asked for help on those same virtual world platforms that threaten it: they have created a crowdfunding campaign so that small – or large – donors from all over can write more pages in their commercial and…
A recruiter recently told me that she received over 340 applications for a single position on a single Monday. Sounds good at first. Only not if 280 of them were obviously generated with AI. Not because the documents were fundamentally bad. On the contrary: they read well, competently and accurately. Not a single sentence was weird. There was no wording that was surprising. And not a single typo. And if so, it was so precise that it seemed more like calculation. The more she read, the more she felt: This application could just as easily have gone out to hundreds…