Hello good morning!
Spain, be it because of the result on 23-J, the future of various parties or that of the ‘procés’ in the European field, is filled with unanswered political questions. Public health, housing or even how to be mothers and fathers today without the couple succumbing in the attempt, add more.
Pedro Sánchez, recover? After the conservative tsunami in the municipal elections and poll after poll, the result of 23-J seemed (almost…) singing. Now Sánchez would recover ground among the political tribes of the left. Doubts do not stop flying over each forecast.
What was the new policy? Podemos and Ciudadanos came years ago to the first political line to change the system. Now they are diluted and explaining it is not easy, but the answer, it is launched, was always there: neither new nor old, is it the politics of the 21st century?
Is there political persecution? European justice says no and rejects the arguments of former president Puigdemont on account of the Catalan conflict. And he removes his immunity. The door is opened to his extradition, although he will appeal again to the last European instance.
The Princess of Girona awards return home, a change that says, a lot, indoors. King Felipe VI assumes in the ceremony the duty of giving “stability and guarantee of future to our youth”; The princess faces the beginning of her military training “with enthusiasm”.
The public health that privatizes. The contracting of health insurance increases by 3% since the covid and the private one manages to capture 290,000 patients per day of delay in primary care. The reaction does not come.
The house does not give a breath… And it is that its price will remain high despite the slowdown in sales. The shortage of supply, or the rise in costs in new housing, condition. Also the for now endless rise in interest rates.
Putin’s useful idiots. “Too many European politicians fail to stand up to Putin,” he recounts. And more so when a subculture of supporters who “understand” the Russian president thrives on the margins of the most dominant currents.
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist. “The riots in France are a gift to fascism and all extremism.” read it here
Fathers, mothers, and partner. Parenting can tear the couple to shreds, and in fact it happens more often than you probably think because “wear, distance and lack of communication” after having a child is already the first reason for divorce.
The image of the ‘cowboy’ is what it is, very white and traversed by conservatism, and few remember that after the US civil war it was black who drove the cattle from the south to the north of the country. A rodeo in Portland, Oregon, finally vindicates them.
Spanish Taiwan. Now that there is so much talk about Taiwan and the tension over it between China and the US, how much we depend on its chips, etc., it is time to remember that it shares centuries of common history with Spain. Today it is back on the table.
Xabier Añoveros Trías de Bes, jurist, five times doctor, collector of ‘caganers’. “Running the bulls in Sanfermines is a religion.” read it here
VICTOR-M. AMELA
