Politics

In these days of heat waves, large fires are occurring in the Mediterranean, especially in Turkey, Greece and Italy. Similar situations are occurring in other parts of the world (California, Siberia, etc.). And we experienced something similar last summer. It is therefore understandable that I am repeatedly asked if all these fires are a consequence …

“I’m smoking too much these days. I used to smoke a pack a week and now I smoke half a day”, confesses Bill Roggio, director of Long War Journal, a publication of the think tank Foundation for the Defence of Democracies (FDD) on the war against terrorism with a special focus on Afghanistan. Through its …

The summer has brought a noticeable slowdown in the rate of vaccinations against COVID-19 in Spain. Whether it is because of holiday travel, or because it is now necessary to repopulate the most careless, the numbers of weekly injections have fallen by 40% in August, and this has forced the autonomous communities to seek ways …

The CNMC has sanctioned with a total of 61.28 million euros to 12 construction companies for forming a cartel to alter tenders for road maintenance and operation services called by the Ministry of Public Works (now the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda) from 2014 to 2018. Among those sanctioned are the six big …

Hungarian booksellers must conceal works for minors with LGTBI+ themes with closed packaging, according to the homophobic regulations passed, which even prohibit selling any copy with passages on homosexuality or sex change within 200 meters of a school or a church. These limitations are specified in a recent decree that includes a guide on the …

“The elections will be on 27 November 2022”, said the spokesman of the Andalusian Executive, Elías Bendodo, in May, in view of the possibility of an early election. But the constant threats of rupture of Vox, which leave in evidence a government in minority, and the proximity of the end of the legislature (which should …

With the news of the approval of the first human clinical trials of a Spanish vaccine, the one developed by the pharmaceutical company Hipra, by the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS), the drug on which the private company is working is at the forefront of Spanish research against COVID-19. But it is …

The Government of José Luis Martínez-Almeida gave Friday the penultimate step to approve the new mobility ordinance of the City of Madrid. The rule includes in its articles the new Madrid Central that have designed PP and Ciudadanos to replace the one that launched the Executive of Manuela Carmena, and that has been knocked down …

On August 20, Antonio María Rouco turned 85 years old. The man who was for two decades the absolute leader of the Spanish Church, especially during the end of the pontificate of John Paul II and throughout the mandate of Benedict XVI (this week, precisely, marks a decade of the World Youth Day in Madrid), …

The Maakum volunteers had been on alert for several days. Statements made by the Government delegate in Ceuta suggested that something could happen soon with the Moroccan minors who arrived in the city during the diplomatic crisis with Morocco last May. On Friday 13 August, they were the first to confirm their suspicions. Their mobile …