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Cospedal defines Fernández Díaz as a “upright and upright” manFormer minister María Dolores de Cospedal has defined the main accused of the Kitchen casethe former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz, as an “upright and upright man who has suffered a lot.” Cospedal has been breaking down his relationships inside and outside the party with the main defendants in the trial. Regarding the former minister, he explained that they had a “friendly” and “fluid within an order” relationship because they were “very busy” people. But they never talked about any type of monitoring of Bárcenas, he stated. For his…
When Dara Khosrowshahi takes over as CEO, he will take a close look at how the performance of the workforce can be improved to increase the company’s success. When he did that at Expedia in 2005, he overhauled almost the entire team, Khosrowshahi says in the “Diary of a CEO” podcast. He needed some “hungry people” there. According to his own statements, he would not have made any progress with new values and a performance-oriented corporate culture. “Culture isn’t enough, you need the right people in your company,” says Khosrowshahi, who is now CEO of Uber. And high-performing people are…
The Federal Court of Justice has once again ruled in the dispute over the tell-all book about former Chancellor Helmut Kohl: His widow is therefore not entitled to any money from the profits. The ban on further passages must be renegotiated.
The permanent clash between the Government of Spain and that of the Community of Madrid has added a new front since this spring: article 30 of the regional Budget law, which the State considers unconstitutional, according to the official regional bulletin this Wednesday. Thus, the two parties have agreed to open bilateral negotiations on this specific section of the rule, which denies compensation to public employees. If an agreement is not reached, the discrepancy will be resolved in the Constitutional Court, which has become the great scene of clashes between the two administrations. There are four lawsuits pending resolution there.…
Performance is back on the economic agenda. Due to the economic crisis, the pressure is growing in many companies to specifically strengthen productivity and evaluate performance more precisely. At Yunex Traffic, a global provider of intelligent traffic systems, there was no question of a deficit in employee performance. But the company wanted to answer the question: How can performance, potential and development prospects be recorded more systematically and transparently?“We wanted to know where our top people were and needed a system for this,” says Dr. Kirsten Weerda, globally responsible for human resources management at Yunex Traffic. “We asked ourselves whether…
Social Affairs Minister Bärbel Bas is clearly distancing herself from the Federal Chancellor, who sees the statutory pension as “basic security”. At “Maischberger” she reports on a clarifying conversation with Friedrich Merz, in which he qualified his statement.
This Wednesday, the PP reached an agreement with its former government partner, Vox, to reissue the coalition in Aragon with three ministries under its charge. Both forces have agreed on a 13-section document, with a special focus on immigration, as they already did in Extremadura, with the popular ones responding to a good part of the demands and arguments of the extreme right on this point. The new Executive intends, among other objectives, to return unaccompanied migrant minors to their countries of origin, give priority to nationals in access to social housing and limit other benefits and social aid for…
Jez Rose was, for many years, the person that forward-thinking companies and organisations called upon when they wanted more than a conventional speaker — when they needed someone who could genuinely shift perspective and inspire lasting change. A number one bestselling author and a keynote speaker of international standing, he built a name that was synonymous with high-impact work on leadership, behaviour and performance. At the pinnacle of that career, he had made his home in America, acquired a farm and was crossing the world on a near-permanent basis, addressing audiences that could run into the thousands. His clients read…
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, received this Wednesday at the presidential palace in kyiv the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, with whom he held a meeting on military cooperation between both countries and addressing the war situation in the country. In a message in English and Spanish spread on social networks, the Ukrainian leader has assured that he has informed Robles “about the situation on the front” of the war with the Russian forces, which invaded Ukraine in February 2022. At the meeting, both also addressed the expansion of the SAFE program, the acronym in English of the financial…
In Ukraine they are discussing renaming a part of Donbass “Donnyland” for Trump. Pistorius presents the Bundeswehr’s first military strategy. And with the new Frankfurt airport terminal, no joke, a major German construction project will be completed on time. This is the situation on Wednesday evening.