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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
The investment expert Anja Mikus heads the German sovereign wealth fund Kenfo and has to turn 25 billion euros into 130 billion. Here she explains what to look out for when investing for the long term and why a stock pension makes sense.
A 42-year-old Finnish mountaineer has died after falling about 500 meters when she was descending from Balaitús Peak, in the municipality of Sallent de Gállego (Huesca), in an accident in which her companion, a 53-year-old man also of Finnish origin, was unharmed.Continue reading
For Catalan industry and business, defense has ceased to be a taboo and has become a juicy opportunity. Geopolitical movements, with conflicts burning around the world and with the United States willing to support NATO and European partners less, have put on the table the need for the European Union to spend more on defense and achieve strategic autonomy, something that opens up a range of business opportunities in the military industry. The European Union wants to contribute 800,000 million in the next five years, and the Government plans to allocate 2% of GDP, about 10,000 million, to this sector.…
In the ceremony hall of the Quinta de Salmanha (Figueira da Foz), in Portugal, no “long live the bride and groom!” could be heard this Saturday. Repeated cries of “reconquest” and “remigration” could be heard. There was no cake, there were no future spouses. What were 480 far-right extremists from all over Europe celebrating, calling themselves patriots, with some hanging crosses and nationalist emblems pinned to the buttonholes of their wedding-day suits? Continue reading