Hello good morning!
Spain assumes the semi-annual presidency of the EU with 23-J just around the corner. Nerves. The violence, by the way, subsides in France, but escalates in the West Bank.
With the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU inaugurated, the Commission “confidents” in its success beyond the elections on July 23, but not before warning Von der Leyen of extremism of the right and left.
The migration agreement (with or without Hungary and Poland), the green agenda or the reform of fiscal rules, are the priorities of the mandate. At home, however, the consensus seems distant on this and much more.
The economic figures seem to be left out. And it is that companies recover pre-covid margins, except for food companies; The energy companies are the most benefited (surprise?), tourism is reactivated and we need to know more about the financial sector and the self-employed.
Climbing. Since the end of the second intifada there has not been a large-scale Israeli military intervention like the one that has been taking place since Monday in the West Bank, which Netanyahu had long been demanded of by settlers and far-rightists. It sounds like war and its end is not in sight.
Calm is what returns to France after the wave of riots in recent weeks, although the country remains traumatized by the extreme violence experienced. Macron seeks political consensus to heal the deep wounds of the riots. He is expected complex.
At last!!! The Government will give aid to dozens of victims of thalidomide, a drug at the origin of serious malformations, after three decades of struggle. He is evidently late: “My mother blamed herself for the fact that I was missing a leg,” she explains.
Five men have murdered their partners in the last seven days, the last one yesterday. 25 boys and girls, in turn, have been orphaned this year. The drama sees no end.
Cristina Tosio, Spanish model and DJ. “It seems that with a woman, the more techno or hard music she puts on, the more she respects her.” read it here
Twitter flirts with chaos. The arrival of Elon Musk at the head of this social network makes it a whole box of surprises for its millions of users… The last one: the limitation in reading posts and having to log in to access them cause problems. See consequences.
If a restaurant succeeds without even having its name on the door, there is no need to ask more. The latest example comes from Tarragona with a place opened in 2018 that, today, is an open secret of a different kind of cuisine.
The havoc wrought by wars is never told enough, or at least not enough to prevent new ones. The novelist Victoria Amelina, killed after a Russian attack on a place where she ate with a journalist from this house, leaves an unpublished book and tries it again via Ukraine.
Sílvia Fernández Cadevall, art therapist, Princess of Girona 2023 award. “Art is therapeutic, art relieves, reconciles, soothes…” Read it here.
VICTOR-M. AMELA
