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Today the governing body of the Judiciary, the CGPJ, has completed five years of its expired mandate. There’s nowhere to get it. And, despite this, political tension continues looking ahead to Sánchez’s investiture. In Gaza endless drama.
This weekend it was learned that a Salvadoran diplomat will be in charge of coordinating the verification of the pacts between the PSOE and Junts for Sánchez’s investiture. A new mobilization in the street follows. The PP: “they negotiate democracy.”
Swords are high in Spanish politics. It seems that everything depends on it, even the future European elections, and the judiciary suffers from it without any signs of being able to renew the CGPJ. It’s been five years now.
The very few votes for which the coalition government repeats partly explain the tension. To do this, it is worth going to the data and checking how an exchange of just 11,000 votes between the PP and Vox would have left the government within their reach.
After the truce, the war between Israel and Hamas climbs several steps, so many that the president of the International Criminal Court warns both not to complain if it acts against them. Harsh warning from the US to Tel Aviv for the massacre of Palestinians.
Renting costs, today, untold in many Spanish cities. And more and more owners add the requirement of conforming to a moral code along with proof of financial solvency. Maybe it will help: the Generalitat will reduce the personal income tax for three out of every four taxpayers.
Data protection in this very digital world continues to raise dust… Now it is the Spanish media that is suing Meta for violating privacy. The company’s tracking of Internet users is very worrying.
The world’s great publishing event in Spanish, the book fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, breaks records. Its director, Marisol Schulz, to La Vanguardia: “We invite Barcelona in 2025 as the Latin American publishing capital.”
Cristina García Rodero, photographer, author of the legendary photobook ‘Hidden Spain’. “We Spaniards are vital, chaotic and very unserious.” Read it here.
What a world… It seems like a joke, but it is not: a Paraguayan official resigns after signing an agreement with a non-existent country, the United States of Kailasa, in theory a Hindu diaspora with 100 million inhabitants in front of Ecuador.
“If I show you my bank account… It’s hilarious,” says Tariku Nogales, the first Spaniard to go under 2 hours and 6 minutes in a marathon. “And the Federation doesn’t help me,” he explains. It does not matter. All sports attention is for football. Last night for Barça, 1 – Atlético, 0.
Other startups? Very close to the end of the year, investment in European startups in 2023 is expected to fall by almost half! The economic situation and the withdrawal of US funds would motivate him. Consequence: the sector faces changes.
Karen Willcox, an aerospace and computer engineer at the University of Texas, Austin. “Our digital twins are already predicting the world.” Read it here.
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