Author: News Desk

Often comes a point when a thing becomes too much Often comes a point when a thing becomes too much and we seek comfort in all kinds of things.It might be your favourite blanket or when that final slice of pizza takes you from being comfortably full to a groaning misery, or when the karaoke in the car goes from being fun to a throat aching chore. Too much of almost anything is bad, even the good things in life. This is ancient wisdom is found in the Vedas, in Plato’s Greece and in most religions throughout time, but in…

This Tuesday, the iconic El Molino venue in Barcelona hosted the first edition of La Nit d’Els40 to recognize Catalan music in 2024. Figa Flawas has been crowned best Catalan group of the year. The young urban music band has taken a giant step in their musical career thanks to what has been the success of the summer, their song Marina is brunetteselected as the best song or loop song.Miki Núñez was another of the stars of the night, having been awarded as Artista CAN40a podcast dedicated exclusively to music in Catalan that has evolved naturally to become established on…

Assisted dying adverts have sparked a poster war on the London Underground. The billboards – from the Dignity in Dying campaign group – sparked sparked outrage when they appeared at Westminster Tube station and Euston. Suicide prevention posters from the mental health charity Samaritans were soon taped over them, although these have now been removed. It comes days before MPs debate a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults with six months or less to live in England and Wales. Labour MP Kim Leadbeater- who introduced the bill – claims it offers ‘three layers of scrutiny –…

Colombia’s president said his country will impose visa requirements on British citizens in response to the UK Government’s decision to impose visa rules on Colombian visitors. The changes, which came into force at 3pm on Tuesday, mean visitors from Colombia will now need a visa to travel to the UK. Colombian nationals will also need a transit visa if they need to pass through the UK to travel on to another country. On Tuesday evening, Colombia’s leader Gustavo Petro said his country will adopt similar rules under “the principle of reciprocity”. Si el Reino Unido ha restablecido la necesidad de…

  French supermarket group Carrefour attempted on Tuesday, November 26, to end a supplier “boycott” of its stores in Brazil by apologizing for refusing to sell Mercosur-origin meat in its outlets in France. “We apologize” if the domestic French retail ban announced last week “created confusion,” Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard said in a letter to Brazil’s agriculture minister released to media including Agence France-Presse (AFP). Meat suppliers in Brazil have since last Friday halted deliveries to Carrefour stores, in a campaign termed a “boycott” by Brazilian media that on Monday earned vocal support from the agriculture minister, Carlos Favaro. Responding…

Citing “concern” for his country’s farmers and food security, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government “will not accept” the prospective free trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur block in its current form, joining its “primary ally”, France, in forming a blocking minority to against the agreement. Poland joins France in opposing EU-Mercosur free trade agreement

Across southern Africa, support for long-standing ruling parties has dwindled during the past year. South Africa’s once-strong African National Congress (ANC) had to form a coalition government with the Democratic Alliance (DA) to govern for the first time since independence. Neighboring Mozambique is facing violent unrest after Frelimo’s disputed election win. Opposition parties have recently won in Botswana and Mauritius. Namibia is holding its elections on Wednesday, where the governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO), which has been in power since 1990, remains strong in the country’s populous northern regions. Could SWAPO recover from its 2019 decline? SWAPO has already seen…

The French presidency on Tuesday, November 26, issued a categorical denial that President Emmanuel Macron had predicted that the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier would soon fall due to a motion of no confidence backed by the far right. The presidency used its official account on X, @Elysée, to deny the story published in the The Parisian daily. The controversy comes a day after French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen threatened to back a no-confidence motion that could topple the government of Barnier in a standoff over the budget. She said after crunch talks both sides were “entrenched” in…

The only debate between the three candidates to lead Esquerra was reduced this Tuesday to practically an exchange of speeches, with white gloves, between the representatives of the two lists with the most options, Oriol Junqueras (Militància Decidim) and Xavier Godàs (Nova Esquerra Nacional). . Not even the frontal attacks of the other candidate, Helena Solà (Foc Nou), towards her two rivals managed to dynamite an obvious commitment to maintaining a contained tone. The controversy over the Maragall posters and the pacts with the PSC dominated the meeting in which Junqueras once again avoided revealing what he voted for in…

Today, the Commission has launched a Trusted Investors Network bringing together a group of investors ready to co-invest in innovative deep-tech companies in Europe together with the EU. The Union’s investment comes from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is part of the EU research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. The first group comprises 71 investors from across Europe, including venture capital funds, public investment banks, foundations and corporate venture funds. These investors collectively represent over €90 billion of assets, which positions the network as a key initiative to mobilise capital for Europe’s deep tech sector. Following preparatory meetings with investors…