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Tonight Jaume Subirós received the National Award for Traditional Gastronomy for his work at the helm of the Motel de Figueres, a reference restaurant for Catalan cuisine that has remained faithful to its origins with excellence since 1961. At the same annual gala of the Catalan Academy of Gastronomy and Nutrition (ACGN), Raül Balam Ruscalleda, who currently heads the kitchen at the Moments restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, won the National Gastronomy Award of Author. At a gala at the Pedralbes Palace, there have been more recognitions for Patricia Sierra, from Granja Elena, with the Head of Room Award;…
Through various forms of employee listening, HR can now learn a lot about the mood and needs of employees. But there is often a gap between knowledge and concrete further work with the information. This is the result of the study “State of HR in Germany 2026” by the German Society for Personnel Management (DGFP) and the analysis and consulting company Gallup. The study authors describe this problem as a so-called “action gap”. HR departments identify problems, seek feedback, and collect more and more data, but often fail to translate it into actual decisions or actions. How can this be…
Nastassja Kinski had asked Wim Wenders to remove her from “False Movement” as a half-naked 13-year-old. The director answered evasively – he has now instructed streaming services, TV and cinemas not to show the film anymore.
One more step. Following Vox’s participation in a European extreme-right summit in Portugal last Saturday, where deputy Rocío de Meer advocated generating an “exit effect” of even second-generation immigrants who do not conform to certain cultural guidelines, the president of the party, Santiago Abascal, supported this Monday the initiative of one of the main white supremacist activists, the Dutch Eva Vlaardingerbroek, who advocates for mass deportations of “non-European” citizens, legal or illegal, because they endanger “the native peoples of Europe” and their “ethnic continuity.” Abascal’s support for the initiative comes a day after former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán publicly…
There will be fewer chief titles at Siemens in the future. Insiders from corporate circles reported this to the Handelsblatt and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The change is to be made as part of the streamlining of the company structure, the “One Tech Company program”. In total, hundreds of positions are set to lose their chief designation. Siemens itself did not want to comment on this when we asked, so it is unclear why the company is planning this step. Axa Switzerland and DWS: Different experiences with title abolition In the past, there have been other companies that have tried to…
With Directive (EU) 2023/970, the European legislator has transferred the principle of “equal pay for equal work or work of equal value” from a textbook sentence into an operational compliance framework. For professionals who have been working with compensation and grading systems for years, this is significant news in two ways: What many experts have long considered methodologically correct is now an obligation across the Union. Many existing assessment systems will not meet the new requirements in this form: the toolbox published in March by the European Institute for Gender Equality further solidifies this view. This results in two central…
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, has urged the PP to respect the separation of powers, the presumption of innocence and the Judiciary because, as he said, they already “had the sentence handed down” after the indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero or the judicial developments of the Leire case that affect the PSOE. The Executive has surveyed its partners, knows well the political situation of all of them and is convinced that there is practically no possibility of the victory of the motion of censure that Alberto Núñez Feijóo is trying to…
Artificially generated music is flooding streaming platforms, mostly unnoticed by users. Market leader Spotify is driving development forward. The musician Johanna Summer and her label want to do something to counter the takeover of power.
Dear Mr. Pelley: I meant what I said in my letter last week to the 60 Minutes team: joining 60 Minutes is the honor of my career and I am grateful to be working alongside the people who have contributed to the most important television journalism brand this country has ever produced. While I’m new to 60 Minutes, I’ve devoted my career to investigative journalism and storytelling. I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans, with you among them. For that reason, one of the…
A-Star Tuitions, co-founded by Debashis and Arunima Saha, is moving into a new chapter of its development with the announcement of an online learning platform and a new parent-facing progress tracking system, due to launch at the beginning of the 2026-27 academic year. Established in 2018 to address the increasing need for high-quality STEM tuition, the company has grown steadily and its latest expansion reflects both that trajectory and its commitment to improving the experience for students and families alike. The announcement arrives as A-Star Tuitions enjoys a run of industry recognition, having been shortlisted in the Best Home…