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The councilors of Barcelona together will ask to collect allowances from the Provincial Council and the AMB to transfer them to the party | News from Catalonia

The nine councilors of Barcelona En Comú in the Barcelona City Council will begin to process the collection of per diems for attendance at plenary sessions and commissions of the Provincial Council and the Metropolitan Area (AMB) to transfer them to the party. Until now, the councilors of the commons had waived collecting these allowances, which amount to up to 973 euros each monthly plenary session of the Provincial Council and 368 for the metropolitan ones. The decision seeks to “strengthen” the organization with more resources in view of the municipal elections, explain party sources, and in no case does…

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Tax risks in international remote working

– Advertisement -Cross-border home office is strategically relevant – but also an underestimated risk area. Between permanent establishment risk and residency hurdles, companies are faced with the question: How can flexibility be achieved without losing control? Sabine Paul and Ilja Lapov-Mudrovcic from KPMG Law classify the central risks and highlight specific areas for action. Executive Summary Permanent establishment through home office abroad: Tax risks in international remote working The challenge: Cross-border home office is strategically established, but brings with it considerable tax and residency risks. In particular, the risk of unintentional permanent establishments and complex national regulations present companies with…

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The limits imposed on Kitchen’s trial | Spain

On January 26, 2009, when a limited number of officials from the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police were secretly investigating the Gürtel casean obscure commissioner unrelated to that group of agents and accustomed to moving in the shadows and splashing through the sewers, José Manuel Villarejo, reflected in his agenda a suspicious contact that he had that day with Ignacio López del Hierro, then husband of the general secretary of the PP: “He called to see us. The relative María Dolores de Cospedal wants data to make decisions.” There were only 11 days left until…

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Two climbers are injured in critical condition in Montserrat | News from Catalonia

Firefighters report that the cause of the accident was a stone fall.Rescue of injured climbers in Montserrat.Bombers of the generalityA 30-year-old man and woman are in critical condition after suffering an accident while climbing this Saturday afternoon on the Montserrat mountain, in El Bruc (Barcelona). It seems that the cause was a rock fall when they were ascending the mountain wall in the area called El Columpio, as reported in a statement by the Generalitat Bombers. After a first assistance intervention by the Medical Emergency System (SEM) at the scene, they were evacuated by helicopter to the Bellvitge and La…

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Regularization of migrants: main objections of the Council of State | Spain

The Council of State, in its report on the extraordinary migrant regularization project, requests that the Government be more rigorous when it comes to demonstrating the criminal records of potential beneficiaries of the new residence permits in Spain. The procedure, he says, “should be suspended” if there are no reports on the migrant’s criminal history. The Ministry of the Interior had requested the same from the Migration Ministry, the latter in charge of drafting the regulations, which in this aspect are more lax, since it plans to continue with the process even when the foreigner has not been able to…

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Video: How the Iran War Is Affecting Inflation

new video loaded: How the Iran War Is Affecting InflationBen Casselman, our chief economics correspondent, describes how the increase in prices as a result of the war in Iran is beginning to show up in the data, and what could come next.By Ben Casselman, Nour Idriss, Stephanie Swart and Sutton RaphaelApril 11, 2026

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This Saturday, France rewards Juan Carlos I for the memoirs in which he narrates his “fundamental role” in the Transition | Spain

The presence of the emeritus king has caused some controversy and surprise among the finalistsJuan Carlos I receives an award for his memoirs at the French National Assembly, liveKing Emeritus Juan Carlos de Borbón and the president of Abanca, Juan Carlos Escotet (i), in O Grove (Pontevedra), last February.Photo: Brais Lorenzo (EFE) | Video: FRENCH NATIONAL ASSEMBLYInvolved in a certain controversy, King Juan Carlos collects a special literary award starting this afternoon at the French National Assembly for Reconciliation (Planeta, 2025), the memoirs he has written with the author Laurence Debray. The award, which is in its 35th edition, is…

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