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The EU member states must have incorporated the EU Pay Transparency Directive (ETRL) into national law by June 7th. That’s the plan. But many countries did 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. The ministry also confirmed to other media that the deadline would not be met. Infringement proceedings: What threatens Germany if the deadline is missed? Since…

This Monday, Leo XIV delivers a long-awaited and historic speech in Congress in a joint session of the Cortes Generales, during the third day of his visit to Spain. He will be the first pope to speak in the Spanish lower house. But first, the president of Congress, Francina Armengol, offered a welcome intervention in which she defended that the international community must once again place peace at the center of political action and reinforce multilateralism in the face of conflicts and global fragmentation. Early in the day, the Pope met with Pedro Sánchez at the Nunciature, where they spoke…

The third day of Leo XIV in Madrid, this Monday, is also going to be very intense and is one of the ones that has aroused the most expectations. The event of the day is one of the central points of the trip, the historic speech that he will deliver after ten thirty in the morning in the Congress of Deputies, in a joint session with the Senate. There was already suspense, but it was triggered after the forceful intervention he made on Saturday, as soon as he arrived, with a powerful battery of phrases against populism and the political…

A man was shot dead this Sunday in the middle of the street in the area between the streets of Mineria and Mare de Déu del Port, in the Free Trade Zone of Barcelona. The event occurred around 9:00 p.m., when the victim, who was inside a block patio in this neighborhood in the Sants-Montjuïc district, received several gunshot wounds. Agents from the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Emergency Medical Service (SEM) went to the scene shortly after, where several people were already trying to revive the victim, without success, in an operation that has been recorded by neighbors and spread…

Behind the access fence to the Pope’s massive mass in Cibeles, a group of people with yellow vests stands out from the crowd. There are thirty volunteers from the Bocatas Christian association, who seek to bring those most in need closer to the event, but from outside. They denounce that the homeless in the center have been separated during the visit: “They cleaned the streets because the Pope was coming,” says Jesús de Alba, one of the spokespersons.Continue reading

Leo XIV celebrates this Sunday the mass of Corpus Christi in the Plaza de Cibeles, in front of the Madrid City Council building, where some 1.2 million people are gathered, according to the organization. The entrances have been closed and there are people who have been left outside. The Pontiff entered the central square surrounded by the shouts of the public: “Long live the Pope”, after taking a tour in the popemobile, leaving from the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute, on Serrano Street, passing through Goya Street and Plaza de Colón. The Kings, Princess Leonor, Infanta Sofía and the Minister of…

We have the pope in Madrid. From early this Saturday morning, while some streets were quieter than normal, certain areas of the city were bustling. The faithful gathered at the main points of Leo XIV’s route on his first day in the city: from the Royal Palace to the Caritas center in Carabanchel where the Pope met with several of the users. But the big event on Saturday was the prayer vigil held in the Plaza de Lima, near the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, whose surroundings began to fill with pilgrims from four in the afternoon, four and a half hours…

There are already more ETA prisoners in semi-freedom than in the ordinary regime. According to the data managed by Sare, a citizen platform to support the organization’s inmates, of the 118 who remained in prisons in Spain and France at the end of April, 73 of them (62%) are already leaving prison daily, either because they are in the so-called third degree or open regime, or because article 100.2 of the Penitentiary Regime is applied to them, a rule that allows living conditions in prison to be made more flexible. those who are still in second grade with departures from…

International cooperation in Extremadura, considered for decades one of the hallmarks of the autonomous community and a national reference in solidarity, is going through its most delicate moment. The Government of Extremadura has announced the decision to cut almost nine million euros from the funds allocated to development cooperation by 2026, going from 11 to 2.7 million euros, in addition to not replacing the general director of the Extremadura Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aexcid), Isabel Belloso, after announcing her resignation due to the lack of support for this type of policies. Continue reading

The Kings of Spain, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, among other authorities, have received Pope Leo XIV at the Barajas airport, who begins a seven-day visit to Spain this Saturday. From the airfield, the Pontiff is heading towards the Royal Palace of Madrid, where the official welcome ceremony will take place. During the flight, the Pontiff admitted to journalists that pedophilia in the Church “is a still open sore” and that he intends to continue fighting it, as he has always done throughout his life. In the…