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Who said that there is no room for humor in political literature? The book of conversations of the late Fernando Sánchez Dragó with Santiago Abascal and with whom he calls his guru, Kiko Méndez-Monasterio (Santiago Abascal, Spain VertebratePlaneta, 2019), contains some memorable passages. The writer’s dithyrambs towards the leader of Vox explode into heroic similes: “But if you are like Viriato, like El Cid, like Guzmán the Good…!”; The three gentlemen burst into laughter and jokes about the women while Dragó’s secretary fails to light a fire in the fireplace of the house where the talk takes place; Abascal emerges…
The US President is on the phone with a right-wing reporter – and Chancellor Merz. He also wants to force the Strait of Hormuz to open, but Tehran is threatening to push back. And: NATO boss Rutte warns of Iranian missiles on Europe. The live analysis from Sunday.
Four young people were trapped this Saturday in an old hospital in the town of Esparreguera, in the Baix Llobregat region (Barcelona), after the structure of the building collapsed. The Generalitat Firefighters have managed to first remove two of the young people, one of them seriously injured and another in less serious condition. After almost three hours they managed to rescue the other two, who emerged unharmed. As reported by the Generalitat Firefighters in their account on The Firefighters have begun to work on the rescue efforts, with 13 crews, and have also activated drones from the aerial media unit.…
“Tradition is tradition”; “You can’t break a tradition” or “Let them set up their own brotherhood.” These are the main arguments put forward by several brothers to justify their rejection of women being able to procession with them during Holy Week in Sagunto, whose origin dates back to 530 years ago. The vote held this Sunday afternoon in the hermitage of the Sang del Nostre Senyor Jesucrist, and in which only men participated, was clear: 267 votes against and 114 in favor of modifying an article of the statutes to change the word “men” to “people” in order for the…
After the election debacle in Rhineland-Palatinate, the SPD leaders are threatened with a debate about their own role. Now, of all people, former Chancellor wife Doris Schröder-Köpf is urging Lars Klingbeil and Bärbel Bas to retreat. The live analysis.
Next Tuesday will mark eleven years since the tragedy of Germanwings flight 9525, which left 150 dead after crashing into the Alps. This Sunday a tribute ceremony was held outside the El Prat Airport in which, in addition to the family members, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the president of the Catalan Chamber, Josep Rull, participated. The main victims’ association has criticized the absence of Lufthansa, the company’s parent company.The act of remembrance consisted of a one minute of silence outside the airport that serves the Catalan capital. The president of the association of those affected by…
King Felipe VI’s message that in the colonization of America “there was a lot of abuse” and “ethical controversies” by the Spanish conquerors was not at all improvised: it had and has the support of the Government and the PP, “which was brought up to date”, as confirmed by all the parties involved. In the Royal House they classify the “recovery of the institutional relationship” lost with Mexico as a “State operation.” Felipe VI wants Mexico to attend the XXX Ibero-American Summit in Madrid in November and has made direct efforts with the leaders of Chile, Argentina and other countries…
This Saturday, some 81,500 spectators filled the 248 theaters throughout Catalonia that participated in the initiative. No empty chair to celebrate Theater Day, which is 10,000 more than last year and a new record. In the third edition of this theater day, these theaters have offered 305 shows and 347 functions, as reported in a statement by the organizing entity, the Associació d’Empreses de Teatrede Catalunya (ADETCA).The average occupancy of the rooms has been 88.66% and the initiative has mobilized dozens of companies and producers, technical teams and professionals in the sector. Promoted by ADETCA and the Corporació Catalana de…
The general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, stated this Saturday in Viladecavalls (Barcelona) that his parliamentary group will not support the second royal decree approved this Friday by the Government, which includes measures on housing, within the social shield to mitigate the effects of the war in Iran. Turull has disgraced the Executive that it has approved a text that it already knows will not prosper in Congress. “Of the two decrees there is one that clearly chooses to continue suffocating the middle and working classes, which not only harms them but also the most vulnerable,” he stated, emphasizing, on…
A total of 87 people, with a total of 293 criminal records, were detained this past morning in a police unit in Barcelona and a dozen surrounding cities, within the framework of the Kanpai plan against multiple recidivism. The Mossos d’Esquadra report that, as a result of this device, in which agents from other police forces have participated, another 29 people have been criminally charged and 232 administrative complaints have been processed.In the city of Barcelona, 42 people with 181 criminal records have been arrested, of which 30 have been detained for immigration reasons, 2 for violation of the viogen/vido…