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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…

  THE root-and-branch examination into finding cures for Gaelic Football’s alleged ailments reaches its moment of truth at the Special Congress in Croke Park on Saturday. Headed-up by former Dublin manager Jim Gavin, the Football Review Committee conducted a forensic and thorough investigation of the laws of the game, consulted with stakeholders, played trials and invited the public to have their say before they tabled a list of measures they feel will clean up the sport and make it a more interesting spectacle. Gaelic Football has changed dramatically over the last two decades and some of the proposals – such…

A key measure of France’s sovereign borrowing costs hit a 12-year high on Tuesday, November 26, indicating growing investor concern over the government’s stability following snap elections earlier this year. The “spread” which measures the gap between yields on French 10-year state bonds and the benchmark German ones hit 0.86 percentage points, up from 0.72 on November 18. Investors were demanding a yield of 3.05 percent to buy French sovereign debt because of the higher risk, compared to only 2.18 percent for German government-issued bonds. The peak came with the government facing the threat of a no-confidence vote next month…

Fifty-one men of all ages, professions and origins have been on trial in Avignon, southern France, since September. All but one, who is on the run, took the stand to explain their background and their involvement in the rapes of Gisèle Pelicot as she was drugged by her husband Dominique Pelicot. Many of them denied any guilt, despite video evidence. Here are their profiles. 51 men are standing trial for the rapes of Gisèle Pelicot. Here’s who they are and what they said in court

At least two people died this Tuesday morning when an Alvia train ran over a van where the victims were, Adif workers at the high-speed works in Monzón de Campos (Palencia), at a level crossing. The Government subdelegation has reported the double death without ruling out that there are more deaths in the accident, as they are searching for more bodies of other workers who could travel in the vehicle hit by the railway. The workers were of Portuguese nationality (37 years old) and Indian nationality (40 years old) and were hired for the works in the southern section of…

A dozen entities in the book sector of the Valencian Community have denounced this Tuesday that the Generalitat has left them without ordinary aid “in the worst year in their history” and they have grouped together in a group of affected people to demand solutions. The subsidies that the Ministry of Culture calls for annually for the book sector are contemplated in the 2024 budgets, but only the line of aid for editorial production has been called, according to a joint statement. However, “as of today it has not been resolved” and aid for the Diffusion of Books and Reading,…

Good morning. We start the live narration of the last hour of political news on this Tuesday, November 26. The judge of Koldo caseIsmael Moreno, today interrogates two partners of the commission agent Víctor de Aldama and his secretary for their relationship in the mask plot, the PCR tests at airports in the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands, or the payments to the commander of the Civil Guard investigated in this case . Meanwhile, the first vice president of the Government, María Jesús Montero, appears at the investigation commission of the Koldo case in the Senate.The traditional Tuesday meeting…

Actions against the touristification of mountain regions are gaining momentum in Catalonia. The anonymous collective Els Trinxats, born in Cerdanya, has been granted the cancellation of the Occident Winterfesta macro musical event scheduled for the Purísima bridge. Not even three days after the massive demonstration for the right to housing that flooded the Catalan capital, entities from the Pyrenees have organized a symbolic event in the Plaza de Sant Jaume in Barcelona to demand a change of course in the territorial model. “The demonstration on November 23 took place in Barcelona, ​​but it was a country act. “Young people from…