The regulation of rental prices in 140 Catalan municipalities comes into force this Saturday. Good news for tenants, who will see rents go down or at least slow down, at a time of housing crisis, with the market at historic highs and a gap between salary increases and rents that continues to widen. . The … Read more
Prison officials are carrying out an unprecedented mobilization in Catalonia in the face of an unprecedented event: the murder, at the hands of a prisoner, of Nuria López, cook at the Mas d’Enric prison (Tarragona). “We are all Nuria,” repeat the workers, who have been warning for months about an increase in attacks and insecurity … Read more
Concentration of officials in front of the Quatre Camins prison (Barcelona), on the third day of protests over the murder in prison of a cook at the hands of an inmate.Maximilian Minocri April 24, 2016. Around 1:30 a.m. In a private home in Valls (Tarragona). Iulian Odriste, a 41-year-old construction employee, picks up a kitchen … Read more
The negotiation of the Catalan budgets and its recent failed outcome has been conditioned by the political tug-of-war around a hotel complex with a mega-casino that the multinational Hard Rock intends to build in Salou (Tarragona). The project is full of big figures: 2,000 jobs, an investment of 700 million euros and with the capacity … Read more
Chance has played in favor of the PSC. The Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya decided in November to hold the XV Congress this weekend in March under the motto Now it’s Catalonia’s turn and the early electoral call on May 12 has come in handy. With all the polls in favor and a pacified party … Read more
Carles Puigdemont plans to reveal over the next week whether he agrees to be the Junts per Catalunya candidate for the Catalan elections on May 12. Internally, at JxCat there is little doubt that the former president will be the headliner and the commitment to give all the relevance to Puigdemont is total. To get … Read more
Feijóo will intervene in the plenary session of Congress on the amnesty law The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will be in charge of defending this Thursday in the Plenary Session of Congress the opposition of the Popular Group to the amnesty law, as confirmed by party sources. The norm reaches the plenary … Read more
The Department of Health is looking for formulas to redistribute health personnel in Catalonia without increasing spending. The department considers that the community does not guarantee territorial equity and that large urban hospitals have significantly more favorable ratios than intermediate or rural hospitals in certain services. Health aims to redistribute professionals from the main health … Read more