Hello good morning!
The elections have not yet finished, the counting of the votes cast by residents abroad is yet to be counted and there may be surprises… Besides, there is concern about the fires that are spreading across the Mediterranean.
The final result of 23-J is pending the recount of the vote of residents abroad, and the ballots that the 2.3 million Spaniards have been able to cast within this census can change the sign of several seats. matter.
Because the votes that will give a majority to one or the other in Congress are few and that is also why the PSOE-Junts negotiation monopolizes the focus. The Socialists warn: they will adhere to the Constitution but see it as possible to deploy “a landing strip” for Puigdemont’s party.
In parallel, “the campaign begins within the Spanish right to overthrow Feijóo”, it is reported. Meanwhile, good news for everyone, as the IMF raises the economic growth forecast for Spain for this year to 2.5%.
The fire spreads across the Mediterranean, ravaging coast after coast, country after country. Greece, Italy and Algeria suffer from it in the middle of the tourist season. The fear that more will arrive grows.
Order, order, order, Macron claimed these days in France. Well, it adds a new headache every time the French police rebel after an agent has been jailed. The hangover from the riots of weeks ago is long overdue.
Alert for the watermelon that is imported from Morocco on account of the use of pesticides prohibited by the EU whose risks “are not eliminated by washing or peeling the food.” A problem, moreover, that is known to be more general than desirable, whether here or there, is the same.
The Spanish team faces its second match this morning in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, after winning the opening match, far from the revolt seen in the team in previous months, and with its defensive wall as the flag. Look at eighths.
Anu Bradford, an expert in international trade law at Columbia University. “Europe can set the course for artificial intelligence.” read it here
Greece recovers the lost crown jewels. The Hellenic Government has found the valuable royal insignia of the first king of the Greeks, Otto I, in the ancient palace of Tatoi, near Athens. From the 19th century, they symbolize the beginning of the “new Greek state”.
Knowing the most common disrespect in restaurants from their professionals, the room staff, is admitting that sometimes disrespect has no limits… And that it goes by culture. And that, therefore, sometimes, do not have an easy solution.
Searching through the archives can always bring a historical surprise and, this time, in the French and Belgians, the action of Brussels and Paris to abort an attack by Catalan separatists against the dictator Primo de Rivera in the 1920s is discovered.
John Grunfeld, NASA cosmonaut, known as ‘the Hubble mechanic’. “Up there, in space, I felt inexplicably happy.” read it here
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