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The Spanish family of the five fatalities of a helicopter accident in New York sue the company that operated the flight | News from Catalonia

The relatives of the Catalan couple who died a year ago with their three children when the helicopter in which they were traveling crashed over the Hudson River (New York) have sued the company that operated the tourist tour, as well as the owner of said company. The civil lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Manhattan, alleges that the company, New York Helicopter Charter Inc., and its owner, Michael Roth, were negligent in managing the flight that took off in the early afternoon of April 10, 2025. The lawsuit maintains that this led to the wrongful death of the…

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First trial against Ábalos, Koldo and Aldama for the mask plot, live | Hidalgo affirms that Aldama was “a communication channel” with Transport, but denies payments in exchange for the rescue of Air Europa | Spain

The keys to the afternoon in the trial of the ‘Koldo case’: from the rescue of Air Europa to the silence of VillalbaThe afternoon session was led by Francisco Javier Hidalgo Gutiérrez, former CEO of Globalia.Hidalgo has recognized that Aldama was a “communication channel with the different ministries, not only with Transport”, for which he charged 10,000 euros per month. He has also downplayed a draft of a SEPI communication favorable to the rescue of Air Europa that appeared on the devices seized from Aldama and that the UCO considers a key indication of Ábalos’ alleged involvement. Hidalgo has denied…

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Performance culture is often misunderstood: what it really is

Many companies are currently under pressure. This makes it all the more important to pool forces internally, to clearly align common goals and to understand performance as an ongoing, learning-oriented process. However, performance culture is often misunderstood: Too often we think about pressure, rankings or fear – instead of clear goals, fairness and healthy work. And so many organizations are very busy but not effective. They confuse busyness with performance: meetings without results, reports without consequence, Power Point battles. Lots of movement, but little progress. Rethinking performance means prioritizing effectiveness over busyness, anchoring team performance systemically and carrying responsibility from…

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DAX salaries: Profit sharing should also apply to employees

Let’s talk about money. 261.3 million euros – that’s how much the CEOs of the DAX companies earned together in 2025, 12.9 percent more than in the previous year. Seven of the top managers exceeded the ten million euro mark, top earner Christian Klein (SAP) earned an impressive 16.24 million euros. The increase was driven primarily by special payments and the increasing linking of remuneration to the share price. This arouses desire and, above all, envy: Why are the salaries of top managers increasing by a whopping 13 percent while employees have to haggle over every percentage point? Critics have…

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FAES: Aznar’s foundation adopts Milei’s language to criticize the Barcelona summit: “a left-handed ‘performance’” | Spain

Faes, the foundation of former Prime Minister José María Aznar, harshly criticized this Tuesday, through a statement, the progressive summit last weekend in Barcelona, ​​which brought together, among others, international leaders of the left such as the president of Brazil, Lula da Silva, and the Colombian president Gustavo Petro. With the same language that the Argentine president, the ultra Javier Milei, usually uses, the text despises the meeting as a “performance left-handed” designed by “el Señorito” (in reference to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez) to shelter “accomplices of a narco-dictatorship.” The statement is titled: “Only Maduro was missing,”…

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Telemadrid is preparing 439,000 euros to outsource and “personalize” the coverage of each step of the Pope in the capital | Madrid News

Telemadrid justifies in a pre-agreement reached with the Episcopal Conference, RTVE and the public television stations of the Canary Islands and Catalonia the budget contract of 439,611.88 euros that it has just put out to tender to broadcast the institutional signal with which to follow León XIV’s every step through Madrid during his visit to Spain (June 6 to 12). This agreement, included in a contract published this Monday on the regional contracting portal, provokes suspicion among the left-wing opposition, which fears that the provision of adding to the general service a “personalized” signal of the papal tour in the…

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Kitchen trial for the police corruption plot linked to the PP on April 20, 2026 | Bárcenas’ wife describes a change in attitude of the family driver when her husband went to prison | Spain

Bárcenas assures that in the recording with Rajoy he could be heard destroying a sheet with the PP’s B accountingThe former treasurer of the PP, Luis Bárcenas, assured this Monday in the National Court that it was he who took the pendrive with the recordings made to Mariano Rajoy and Javier Arenas to his wife’s premises. “The pendrive with the recordings was in my house, in Genoa (by the PP headquarters) what there were were two computers with documentation, which are the computers that I never recovered and that were deleted, they were formatted coinciding with the police operation that…

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Seville April Fair 2026: dates, lighting, booths, street of hell, bullfights | News from Andalusia

The Seville April Fair 2026 once again turns the Los Remedios neighborhood into the epicenter of Andalusian festivities, tradition and folklore. From April 21, the Real de la Feria will be filled with booths, lanterns, sevillanas and horses, in an edition marked by the short format and the festive Wednesday, ending on Sunday the 26th at 00:00 with the fireworks. A week in which the daytime atmosphere, nightlife and essential events such as the lightingHell Street or the final fireworks. Unlike other popular festivals, the date of its celebration depends on the lunar calendar, which is what sets Holy Week.…

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Maíllo sets the goal of doubling results after the unity agreement in Por Andalucía | Andalusia Elections

The Andalusian left says it perceives a change in the mood of the progressive electorate and faces the campaign for 17-M with an optimistic discourse. Antonio Maíllo, the candidate for the Junta of the Por Andalucía coalition, has set the objective this Monday of achieving up to 10 deputies in the next Parliament. In 2022 he obtained five. “We are making a bet to double results. We are not here to survive, but to risk it,” he assured. At an informative breakfast organized by the New Economy Forum, the federal coordinator of IU defended his party’s proposals for these elections;…

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