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I am Catalan, Muslim and the son of immigrants, and the visit of Pope Leo XIV has challenged me in a way that I did not expect. I don’t say this from faith, but from that impact that beauty produces when people and places align for a common purpose. Especially now that we live in a fractured world. And it is precisely in that moral crack where there is something subversive about the fact that a papal visit is capable of summoning, without distinction, the devout and the agnostic, the lifelong Spaniard and the one who arrived a couple of…
The trial had not started and no one knew why. Someone was missing. “They have stabbed him,” was heard in whispers at the Provincial Court of Oviedo. Even without knowing who the victim was, that didn’t sound entirely crazy. It was Wednesday, April 22, and the Galician drug trafficker Carlos García Morales, alias Matadorfor trafficking more than 600 kilos of cocaine, after an international macro-operation by the DEA (American Anti-Drug Agency), the Illinois Prosecutor’s Office and the police of Colombia and Spain. They detained him on his way to Siero, where he stored an arsenal of war weapons “never before…
A large deployment of the Mossos d’Esquadra has blocked the way for hundreds of anti-fascist protesters who this Saturday intended to boycott an event called by the neo-Nazi organization Núcleo Nacional in Barcelona, which has led to clashes against the police line. The police have carried out charges when protesters wanted to cross the police line.Continue reading
The State has transferred ownership of 62.8 hectares of seafront land to Barcelona City Council, from Barceloneta to the border with Sant Adrià de Besòs (Barcelona), which represents more than half of the city’s coastal strip. The Ministry of Finance and Barcelona City Council have reached an agreement for the transfer of these lands, these administrations reported this Saturday in a statement.Continue reading
Human Resources: You recently heavily criticized board salaries on social networks. What was the reason for your post? Sven Franke: It wasn’t a single trigger, but a series of events. On the one hand, there was the board compensation study by the German Association for the Protection of Securities Ownership (DSW), according to which the salaries of the CEOs of the largest listed companies in Germany increased by around 13 percent in 2025. At the same time, the media reported on wage negotiations that were about compensating for inflation. At the same time, the EU Pay Transparency Directive forces companies…
Slavery, racism, discrimination – Donald Trump had references to dark chapters in US history removed. Now a judge stopped the action. History should not be rewritten “with a correction pen”.
Thirteen people with a total of 93 police records have been arrested in Barcelona since this Friday afternoon as part of a device deployed by the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Urban Guard and the National Police to guarantee citizen security and reinforce firearms controls. The device, called saturationhas involved a deployment of numerous troops, patrol officers and controls in specific areas of Barcelona to combat the spike in incidents with firearms recorded so far in 2026, linked to organized crime and drug trafficking. Last Thursday, during the Pope’s visit, a man died after being shot at the confluence of Diagonal Avenue…
Update from June 12, 2026: Volkswagen is making progress with its planned job cuts: of the 35,000 jobs targeted by 2030, more than 28,000 departures have already been bindingly agreed, as can be seen from CEO Oliver Blume’s speech manuscript for the upcoming general meeting. This is an acceleration compared to last September, when the group counted more than 25,000 agreed departures. Group-wide – including Audi, Porsche and Cariad – VW is even planning to cut around 50,000 jobs in Germany. It is said that the reduction will be carried out in a socially acceptable manner through partial retirement, early…
The vast majority of Pedro Sánchez’s 22 ministers are atheists. The president himself is. This is common in progressive European governments. In the PSOE there are recognized Catholics, such as Salvador Illa, and there are also those in the political space to the left of the socialists, where grassroots Catholics have always had an important presence. But the majority of leaders, like ministers, are non-believers. However, up to 14 ministers, an absolutely unprecedented number, participated on Wednesday in a mass in which the Pope blessed the Holy Family’s Tower of Jesus Christ. Continue reading
As part of its economic survey, the Ifo Institute asked almost 3,000 companies that already use AI whether they see AI as a possible alternative to qualifications and professional experience. Almost 20 percent of those surveyed were positive about the question. Instead of filling the position with highly qualified workers, you can imagine hiring workers without a technical or university degree and supporting them with AI, provided that output and quality remain the same. The same applies to professional experience. Around 15 percent of the companies surveyed considered it easy to very easy to replace an experienced worker with an…