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Judge Juan Carlos Peinado left two of the most controversial decisions of his career in the air for five days (and he has already accumulated quite a few in the case that he has promoted since 2024 against Begoña Gómez). But this Saturday, finally, he has communicated them: he has decided to open an oral trial against the wife of the President of the Government for influence peddling, business corruption, embezzlement and misappropriation, in addition to withdrawing her passport, prohibiting her from leaving the country and forcing her to appear twice a month before her court. An unprecedented measure in…
In 2001, Nevenka Fernández denounced her boss, the powerful mayor of Ponferrada, Ismael Sánchez, of the PP, for harassment at a press conference. After the complaint, she fled her city, pursued by a campaign of discredit and prejudice. This Saturday, 25 years later, she performed again in Ponferrada at a public event, held at the headquarters of the Ciudad de la Energía Foundation, in a conference organized by the Ministry of Equality, surrounded by an auditorium full of 300 people. “I’m excited, nervous, but very happy,” she said, as soon as she started, with a smile. Continue reading
With plenty of government funding, the Swedish company Northvolt wanted to build a huge battery cell factory in Schleswig-Holstein. After the bankruptcy, the start-up Lyten is now taking over what is left – for a fraction of the money invested.
In the future, employees would be able to work longer on individual days as long as a maximum weekly working time is adhered to. A draft bill now provides further clarity about the plans: The Federal Ministry of Labor does not want a blanket abolition of the eight-hour day. It should apply primarily to employees with a collective agreement. In companies without collective bargaining agreements, the current daily working time limit would remain the same. This emerges from a draft bill from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS), which is available to the editorial team. According to…
More than eight weeks have passed after the start of the extraordinary regularization of immigrants and the calendar progresses towards June 30, when the deadline for submitting applications ends. The procedure continues normally, they say in the Government, and positive resolutions are already being granted throughout Spain, but there is something that worries foreigners who already have their work and residence permit: the difficulties in getting an appointment at police stations to obtain the Foreigner Identity Card (TIE), the last step in the process. Immigrants from some communities are encountering this obstacle and it is reflected in their desire to…
Workforce management, AI competence, pay transparency and regulation – the HR Forum Banking 2026 showed which questions concern the industry. And what answers there are. AI transformation, growing regulatory pressure, demographic change and geopolitical uncertainty: the questions that HR managers in banks have to deal with today are not small. At the HR Forum Banking 2026, around 100 HR professionals came together to find answers. For the second time, the human resources industry invited HR professionals from banks and financial services to the FAZ Tower in Frankfurt am Main to discuss the latest developments and challenges. What became clear: The…
A 50-year-old man killed his daughter, about 20, and then took his own life in the Sevillian town of Gerena. It was the wife and mother, respectively, of both, who found the lifeless bodies, around 2:30 p.m. this Friday, and notified the Emergency services. The Civil Guard has ruled out that it is a case of sexist violence or vicarious violence after taking the woman’s statement, official sources report. None of the three family members were in the VioGen system nor were there any complaints between the couple. Continue reading
For many, Midsummer is simply a celebration, but for right-wing extremists it is core ideological business. Extremism researcher Andreas Speit explains how ethnic groups use such celebrations to recruit – and how you can recognize them.
A minor has drowned and two others have been critically injured this Friday afternoon when they were unable to get out of the water in a rocky area on the Arrabassada beach in Tarragona, according to sources from the Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM) informing Europa Press. Continue reading
The golden wedding anniversary of King Carl XVI could be more Swedish. Gustaf and Queen Silvia barely lie down. Just in time for Midsummer, the couple will have been married for 50 years. Despite some low points in her marriage, Silvia finds loving words.