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A plot with two bosses. A minister with a lot of influence and a businessman willing to pay for it. That is the photograph left by almost 12 hours of testimony from the agents of the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard who have intervened in the investigation that has put José Luis Ábalos, Koldo García and Víctor de Aldama in the dock. The agents have placed the former Minister of Transport and the businessman and commission agent at the top of the “criminal organization” that is being tried in the Supreme Court. Ábalos, according to the UCO,…
The reform dispute is putting a heavy burden on the Union and the SPD, and even the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor have recently had a heated argument. Now the Union is increasing the pressure: important decisions are to be made on Wednesday. Is the coalition finally slipping into crisis?
After four years there is a change at the top of the highest-earning HR directors in Germany. Our exclusive analysis shows why top salaries are harder to compare than they seem at first glance. With 9.1 million euros, Judith Wiese, CHRO at Siemens, was the highest-earning human resources director in 2025. Gunnar Kilian was the defending champion as the highest-earning HR director for four years in a row (2021 to 2024). After the CHRO left the Volkswagen Group in July 2025, there is now a new contender for the title. In addition to her basic salary of 1.2 million, Wiese…
The Government continues to take steps to try to improve the Catalan long-term care system, which has very high waiting lists. On Sunday, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, presented the so-called Pla Cura, a battery of measures to make the dependency model – which includes the assessment of cases, benefits and care resources in residences, day centers or home care – more agile. The objective is to increase the waiting time between a person requesting recognition of dependency and receiving a benefit from 397 days to 60. This Monday, Illa has delved into the plan with new measures:…
In his career as a football coach, Peter Neururer has seen teams fall apart. He knows what it takes to be a leader when your team is down by three goals at halftime. His keynote speech at this year’s “Schicht im Schacht” was one of the highlights of the recruiting event in the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park. Around 500 HR professionals gathered there to talk about new trends, challenges and developments in recruiting and HR. Thematically, Neururer’s lecture was a bit out of the ordinary, but his look back at his long career as a football teacher was still entertaining. Because…
Political Sciences at a public university, Carlos III of Getafe (Madrid). That is the university degree that the Princess of Asturias, Leonor de Borbón, will pursue, as reported this Monday by the Royal Family. After weighing different alternatives, including a double degree or designing a career for thisthe Kings and their first-born daughter have decided that the heir to the Crown will take a four-year degree “in one of the most prestigious public universities in Spain,” according to sources from La Zarzuela. The agenda includes political, legal, economic and sociological issues that should help her to exercise her responsibilities as…
The incorporation of Mossos d’Esquadra agents in secondary schools in Catalonia to deter violent outbreaks and attacks has the radical opposition of educational unions, student organizations and the parliamentary partners of the Government (ERC and Comuns) and Junts. This Monday, officers are scheduled to join the respective schools assigned to them and, at the same time, the first demonstrations have already been called. The teachers, students and families of the Eugeni d’Ors and Margarida Xirgu institutes in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat have called on the communities of their institutes to gather in front of their centers first thing in the morning.…
His resistance had so far blocked the confirmation: Republican Thom Tillis is now supporting Trump’s candidate Kevin Warsh for chairman of the US Federal Reserve after the investigations against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell were closed.
A 45-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman died this Sunday after the vehicle in which they were traveling fell from a bridge into the Clariano River in the Valencian town of Ontinyent, as sources from the investigation and later the Emergency Coordination and Information Center (CICU) confirmed to Europa Press. The driver of the vehicle, who was unharmed and tested positive for drugs, has been arrested by the Civil Guard.The traffic accident occurred around 5:25 p.m., when the emergency services were mobilized due to the fall of a vehicle over the Camí del Carril bridge into the Clariano river, sources…
For the first time since the October 7 massacre and the subsequent Gaza war, elections will be held in the Palestinian territories. It’s about local politics, and sometimes even garbage collection is in the hands of Israel.