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Junts per Catalunya has activated this Monday the process to elect its candidate for mayor of Barcelona for the 2027 municipal elections, but without guaranteeing primaries. The party has opened a four-day period to present candidacies and plans to validate the candidates on June 5. From then on, an internal commission will decide whether the election is resolved by a vote of the militancy, a ratification in an assembly or the direct proclamation of a candidate, a formula that would avoid an internal competition for the replacement of Xavier Trias.Continue reading
Spontaneous action or a longer planned attack? With her short-term application for the FDP chairmanship, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann sent parts of the party into shock. Now she gives insights into the planning of the election drama.
How exactly does the Whistleblower Protection Act apply? A recent judgment in a case at Volkswagen provides new insights. Two former VW managers have sued the Lower Saxony State Labor Court (LAG) for damages and compensation for pain and suffering. You have pointed out alleged rule violations within the company several times. However, the employer then did nothing. Instead, according to their own statements, they were disadvantaged in promotion decisions. The VW managers saw this as a violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act. This law has been in force since July 2023 and protects people who point out legal violations…
When the actor Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal held the first Tribeca Festival in May 2002, memories from the Sept. 11 attacks eight months before were still fresh.“I just remember thinking we had to get people back downtown,” said Rosenthal, a longtime film and TV producer who worked with De Niro and her then-husband, Craig Hatkoff, to plan the first event.More than 150,000 people attended the first Tribeca Festival, a remarkable turnout for an event organized in only a few months. The five-day showcase featured 150 films, included an appearance by the former South African president Nelson Mandela and…
The General Meeting of the Principality of Asturias has approved the modification of the Law on Public Entertainment and Recreational Activities to prohibit the entry of minors under 18 years of age to bullrings, as well as to veto the sale of alcoholic beverages in bullfighting venues. The initiatives have gone ahead with the 23 favorable votes added by PSOE, IU and the Mixed Group deputy, expelled from Podemos, Covadonga Tomé. The 22 deputies of the PP, Vox and the Forum spokesperson, Adrián Pumares, have spoken out against it.Continue reading
Update, June 1, 2026: The statutory quota for women apparently also plays an important role in the search for a successor for former HR Director Gunnar Kilian. According to media reports, company circles indicate that the Porsche and Piëch ownership families are pushing for a woman to fill the position. There is currently only one woman on the Volkswagen board: IT board member Hauke Stars. Observers internally expect that she could leave the group in the medium term. If Volkswagen were to put a man on the HR board again, the company could get into difficulties with the statutory gender…
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has once again attacked the Government this Monday for cases of corruption. “This legislature is exhausted, it no longer gives any more,” he said in an interview on Telecinco. Feijóo has once again called for early elections and has called on the Government’s partners to promote it. The Federal Executive of the PSOE meets this Monday, in the midst of the shock that the accusation of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for influence peddling and the search of its headquarters by the UCO last week meant for the party, due to the scheme…
The ninth meeting between the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat and the teachers’ unions, aimed at reaching an agreement that will allow the indefinite strike of non-university public education teachers in the Valencian Community to be called off, began at 6:18 p.m. this Sunday. Education has ended it an hour and a little later but three of the five unions gathered – STEPV, CC OO and UGT – have refused to leave, they have locked themselves in the ministry, and have demanded that the department led by Carmen Ortí continue at the table, reopen the negotiation on salary remuneration,…
A barbecue afternoon in Bochum ended with a large-scale operation by the fire brigade and rescue service. Four family members got into the water and were unable to save themselves. A passerby saved the non-swimmer from drowning.
A 10-year-old girl has been injured by a bullet in a shooting in the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. The minor has received a ricochet from a projectile, which has hit her arm, according to what Rac1 has reported and this newspaper has confirmed. The minor has been taken to the hospital, in less serious condition, and is expected to be discharged shortly, according to police sources. This is the second shooting this weekend with an injured person, after a man was also shot in the arm in the Florida neighborhood of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat.Continue reading