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Air traffic sees threats growing on the radar due to the consequences of the war in the Middle East, fundamentally associated with the extra cost of fuel. “It is a situation that, if it continues over time, will be a concern for everyone,” admits Vanessa Requena, chief of staff at the Barcelona-El Prat airport. “The supply is guaranteed for now, but if the time comes when it is not, we will have to think about an adjustment to the programming,” Requena conceded this Friday, on the verge of the start of the summer season at the Barcelona airport, a traditional…
The relief bonus planned by the federal government for 2026 is intended to provide employees with financial support in view of the continued high cost of living and energy. A tax- and social security-free payment of up to 1,000 euros per employee is planned. Unlike classic state benefits, however, the payment is not made directly by the state, but rather via the employer. This construction shifts the practical implementation and thus also the legal issues significantly into the area of labor law. Relief bonus 2026: No entitlement, but bound to legal limits Even if the specific legal design is still…
Among the participants this Friday at the Global Progressive Mobilization summit are former minister Teresa Ribera and former president of the Government José Luis Rodríguez ZapateroEnvironment prior to the Global Progressive Mobilization (GPM) summit of progressive leaders in Barcelona, this Friday.Luis PellicerThis Friday, Barcelona hosts the Global Progressive Mobilization summit, which will bring together more than a hundred progressive parties from around the world and more than 3,000 people to defend left-wing alternatives to conservative policies, at a time when the right and far-right dominate a good part of Europe and America. Representatives of political parties, unions, academia and civil…
Breach of official duties? According to SPIEGEL research, politician Samet Yilmaz is said to have arranged for a private contact to be checked in a secret service database. It wouldn’t be the only border crossing.
Continued wage payments for sickness-related absences cost German companies around 82 billion euros in 2024. This represents a doubling within 14 years. Some companies rely on bonus payments to encourage their employees to attend more – so-called attendance bonuses. But a study published in 2024 by scientists Jakob Alfitian, Dirk Sliwka and Timo Vogelsang shows: Such financial incentives do not work – or even worsen the problem by increasing absenteeism. More on the topic
“It’s very nice to have wolves and have others feed them,” complains Fernando Moreno, a 46-year-old rancher, when summarizing the feelings of his colleagues in the Sierra Norte of Guadalajara, and of himself, every time his cows and sheep suffer an attack from this animal. A problem, he says, that has worsened in the last 15 years. Moreno, like his colleagues, opposes the request that Ecologists in Action and the Fund for the Protection of the Iberian Wolf has sent to the Government of Castilla-La Mancha so that, within a maximum period of three months, it commits to implementing a…
A sensitive data protection incident occurred at Volkswagen Group Services that affected around 600 employees. As Der Spiegel reports, information about absences of specific employees is said to have been passed on internally. Details of the absences are said to have been discussed in conferences with different managers. Volkswagen Group Services provides services and, within this framework, provides personnel for technical services or logistics for the Volkswagen Group. The company informed employees of the data protection violation in a letter. Volkswagen Group Services confirmed the incident to our editorial team and announced: “The necessary internal processes to clarify the matter…
Three people died in Runkel near Limburg as a result of a “damage event that has not been conclusively clarified”. The incident occurred at a leather factory and fur tannery. According to the authorities, there is no danger to the population.
If you were fortunate enough to see the bullfight, stay with what you experienced, with that mysterious collective commotion that took over La Maestranza at the hands of a genius called Morante de la Puebla.If you haven’t seen it, close your eyes and dream of an unequal, virtuoso, shocking, surprising, baroque work, a display of improvisation by an artist who is not from this world, capable of hypnotizing and with a supernatural capacity unbecoming of current bullfighting.Morante is the god of Sevillian bullfighting, of bullfighting in Spain, in the world, in the entire universe, wherever you want, because he is…
The psychiatrist on trial for the death of an acute patient in Córdoba and facing an eight-year prison sentence, Carmen Prada, argued this Thursday at the oral hearing that the patient did not intend to commit suicide, as the victim’s family has repeatedly maintained. “The patient had a risk of not controlling his behavior, but he did not have suicidal intentions,” alleged the head of mental health at the Reina Sofía Hospital, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office is requesting four years in prison. The private prosecution increases the sentence to eight years for two involuntary homicides, since it considers her…