The guarantee committee of Más Madrid has decided to annul the decision of the party leadership to dismiss Loreto Arenillas as a member of the party’s Regional Table as a result of the Iñigo Errejón case, according to a resolution of December 10 to which EL PAÍS has had access. A decision that the management accepts, since it understands that, in reality, it had never been dismissed from that conclave. Arenillas, in any case, remains…
43% of workers present mismatches between what they studied and the training they need for their job. In the last decade, the number of Spanish university graduates has skyrocketed. But the fact that more people are going to university does not mean that they know more than before. The average reading performance of university graduates today is 271 points, 10 less than 10 years ago. This result is one of the lowest in developed countries.…
European Countries Halt Syrian Asylum Applications After Assad’s Fall Several European countries, including Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and Norway, announced on Monday the suspension of Syrian asylum applications. The decision comes in the wake of rebels overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad, who fled to Russia after 13 years of civil war. This move impacts tens of thousands of pending claims and reflects the rapidly evolving political landscape in Syria. It also highlights the influence of resurgent…
The agreement that germinated in Brussels, flourishes in Switzerland but withers in Madrid, according to Junts. Carles Puigdemont assures that the terms of the pact that, 13 months ago, he himself negotiated in the Belgian capital with emissaries of the PSOE do not progress adequately because they run aground when they reach the Government’s table. In the press conference he offered this Monday to take stock of that commitment, the president of Junts per Catalunya…
EL MUNDO reveals the images of the house that the businessman investigated in the ‘Koldo case’ agreed to sell for 750,000 euros Read Seven windows in the middle of Castellana: this was the apartment that Aldama signed for Ábalos
Donald Trump saw another cabinet pick face strong opposition on Monday after dozens of Nobel prize laureates “strongly” urged the US Senate on Monday to deny Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, former presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr., deriding in an open letter Kennedy’s “lack of credentials” and anti-vaccine views. Nobel laureates sign letter slamming RFK Jr. as Trump's health secretary
The Kings close the year of trips abroad with a state visit to Italy. This Tuesday, the Monarch and his wife will travel to Rome, the capital of the country, where they will be received, first of all, by the Spanish community, and then by the president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella and the rest of the State authorities, including Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. The Kings will leave Madrid on Tuesday at noon and fly…
“Calm” and “tranquility” are the words that are repeated in the presidential complex and in Ferraz before the Junts movement Read The Government digests Puigdemont’s order: "negotiate with discretion" transfers in immigration and financing
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky expressed “deep gratitude” on Tuesday for the “strong resolve” shown by US President-elect Donald Trump to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, after the pair met for three-way talks organized by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Saturday.
Jon King lands in New York in 1976 and at the airport someone hands him a piece of paper with a skull on it and a warning: do not enter Manhattan. A student of fine arts at the University of Leeds, King is in the city because he has won a scholarship to write his final dissertation: an in-depth article on the great American artist Jasper Johns. His friend Andy Gill, from a different…
A French filmmaker accused of sexually assaulting actor Adèle Haenel when she was 12 went on trial in Paris on Monday, December 9, five years after her allegations fired France’s #MeToo movement. Christophe Ruggia is accused of sexually assaulting Haenel – star of films including Portrait of the girl on fire (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) and 120 Beats per minute (120 Beats Per Minute) – in the early 2000s when she was between…
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, December 9, called cross-party talks aimed at “forming or making possible a government of national interest” after the ouster of Prime Minister Michel Barnier triggered a political crisis. Party leaders were invited to Macron’s Elysee Palace office for 2:00 pm (French time) on Tuesday, the presidency said, in a departure from Macron’s previous method of meeting leaders individually. Macron’s office said that only those who had “shown they placed…
Endless rows of mountain olive trees surround the valley where Mogón sits, a town in Jaén of barely 800 inhabitants that is the gateway to the Sierra de Las Villas in Jaén, one of the three (along with Cazorla and Segura) that make up the second largest protected natural area in Europe. Embraced by the Guadalquivir and Aguascebas rivers, this annex, known as the paradise of water, has an olive cooperative with more than 1,300…
The independentistas will raise in the debate the need for Sánchez to renew his political commitments because to date he considers them unfulfilled. Read Winning horse for Junts: transfers in exchange for support and a single exit for the PSOE
French President Emmanuel Macron invited party leaders to engage in cross-party talks on Monday, as he attempts to form a new government following a historic no-confidence vote last week which toppled his Michel Barnier-led government only 12 months after Barnier’s appointment. Macron calls cross-party talks on forming new government
The rebirth of a stone phoenix, attended by political phoenix Donald Trump, and the French president, who was celebrating the genius of a nation of great builders, even while it is wracked by turmoil. These were the metaphors used by foreign media outlets in their coverage of the sumptuous ceremony that marked the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris on Saturday, December 7. Many media outlets hailed the “miracle” of the cathedral’s restoration, like The Wall…
On December 7 and 8, the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris after the 2019 fire was more than just a religious event. The event was transformed into a symbolic staging in which each actor − state, church and international community − played a precise role. The reopening was a theatrical global event that revealed how religious, political and diplomatic dimensions fed off each other to assert their legitimacy. A cathedral that rises again is…
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Junts’ fatigue with Sánchez is great and Puigdemont does not forgive him for making Illa president. Read Puigdemont and an unlikely motion of censure by Vox
Antonio was driving his £260,000 Ferrari FF, which collided with a tree in Theydon Bois on Saturday. The impact tore the driver’s side apart, leaving the striker trapped and confused. He had to be cut free from the wreckage and was believed to have been thrown across to the passenger seat during the crash. Michail Antonio first words after horror car crash revealed The footballer is now recovering from surgery on a broken leg, miraculously…
The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, is laying the foundations of his mandate pending the tense renewal process of the Esquerra executive, which has so far prevented the budgets from being agreed. Illa proposed at the beginning of his mandate to have the accounts ready on January 1, but he has already admitted that the deadline will be extended to the first quarter of the year. The Republicans will choose their new executive next…
“The improvable services of Minister Albares could have resolved the issue with a simple phone call” Of all the fires in history, only two have made a place in my memory: the one in Lisbon, which devastated the Chiado district in August 1988, and the one that destroyed Notre Dame in April 2019. There were bigger ones: the one in Rome and the great fire of London in the 17th century, but I was too…
The UN Security Council will convene Monday afternoon for an emergency closed door meeting on Syria in the aftermath of president Bashar al-Assad’s flight from the country. The emergency session had been requested by Russia, Moscow’s deputy ambassador to the UN Dmitry Polyansky said in a post on Telegram Sunday. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments. Live: UN Security Council to hold meeting on Syria after Assad's ouster
Liturgical celebration, architectural and technical event, diplomatic summit, global spectacle, unifying symbol in the midst of a political crisis… The reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday, December 7, and Sunday, December 8, is an event with a multitude of meanings. Its scope is commensurate with the immense international emotion provoked by the fire on April 15, 2019. Overwhelming, but with no one to blame, the disaster had all the makings of one of…
Newly restored Notre Dame cathedral held its first mass on Sunday, December 8, with Christians celebrating the return of the French capital’s most famous place of worship after a grand re-opening ceremony. The beloved Paris monument nearly burned down in 2019, but has been fully renovated and fitted with a new roof and spire during a frenzied five-year reconstruction.
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