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The MNAC puts out to tender the transfer of Sijena’s secular paintings | News from Catalonia

In compliance with the schedule, the Consortium of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) put out to tender this Monday the contract for the dismantling, packaging, transport and unpacking of the secular paintings of the Monastery of Santa María de Sijena (Huesca).More informationThe entity’s action plan for the year was already committed to taking a step forward in the execution of the sentence that requires the return of the Romanesque paintings from the monastery of Santa María de Sijena before the end of the first semester, and it was in March when the tender was made public and…

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Abascal downplays the importance of Vox voting no in Guardiola’s “first investiture” | Spain

The leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, began this Monday to put heat on a negative vote from his party in the “first investiture”, as he called it, of the PP candidate for the Presidency of Extremadura, María Guardiola. Although it has not expressly announced the nohas practically taken it for granted when he assured: “It is difficult, when the agreement has been torpedoed during all these weeks, to reach a last-minute agreement on this investiture or this attempted investiture that will occur immediately.” And he added: “Whatever the result of this first investiture, our hand remains extended, our will to…

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Iran War: This is important for HR now

On the first weekend of March, the conflict that has been simmering between the USA, Israel and Iran for decades escalated – with air strikes on Iranian cities such as Tehran. Iran responded with setbacks at US military bases, including in Dubai. The federal government is currently planning to send planes to Muscat in Oman and the Saudi capital Riyadh to get German citizens out of the country. Wolfgang Hofmann, Regional Security Manager, Germany & Austria bei International SOS. Foto: Mario Andreya Companies that currently have employees deployed abroad in Iran must now also fulfill their duty of care. International SOS…

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Is a farewell party taxable wages?

If a company sends an executive off to retirement with a big reception, the costs are not taxable wages if the event is a party for the employer and the employer also pays for the whole thing. The Federal Finance Court (BFH) made this clear in an important decision on the tax treatment of company parties. What was it about? The bone of contention was a reception that a municipal financial institution hosted and paid for at its corporate headquarters in 2019 for the chairman of the board before his retirement. According to court information, around 300 guests from politics,…

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Tenants in Catalonia will be able to check if a landlord is a large tenant with their name and NIF in the registry | News from Catalonia

The Department of Territory and Housing of the Generalitat is finalizing the decree that details how the registry of large homeowners will be, announced a year ago but still pending activation. The latest draft includes measures to facilitate consultation for tenants: knowing if the landlord of their apartment or the one they want to rent has the status of a large tenant, which requires greater demands than if they are not. To facilitate the consultation, the name or NIF of the owner will be valid, in addition to demonstrating “legitimate interest” to carry it out. It would be worth, for…

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Murcia opens a film ‘hospital’ to the public to recover its cinematographic heritage | Spain

The Film Library of the Region of Murcia Francisco Rabal has begun this 2026, adding to its work of dissemination and conservation of cinematographic heritage, its restoration. Its new film treatment laboratory allows the entire recovery process of old celluloid rolls to be carried out with the particularity that the facilities are visitable and open to the public, with the aim of showing younger generations the material dimension of cinema that is being lost in the digital age.”I like to say that this laboratory is like a hospital in which we curate films. In most cases, each of those films…

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Spain leads the toughest position in the EU against Trump and Netanyahu’s war | Spain

Spain does not support in any way the regime of the Ayatollahs of Iran, and has joined all the condemnations within the European Union that have been made against them, but the Government of Pedro Sánchez is absolutely convinced that the unilateral action of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is unacceptable and is mobilizing all its political and diplomatic resources to condemn it and confront it. The Spanish Government has the strongest position condemning Trump and Netanyahu’s war, and that was very clear in the videoconference meeting of the EU foreign ministers held yesterday, which was not easy. According to…

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