Hard Rock: a controversial economic injection for southern Catalonia that destabilizes two governments | News from Catalonia

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

Health asks large hospitals not to hire temporary health workers and opt for other centers | News from Catalonia

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

Sumar clings to the autonomy of the commons to justify its position in the budget crisis in Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

In recent days, ERC and PSOE have shown their discomfort with the role of the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, who publicly ruled out influencing the Catalan negotiations based on the plurinational nature of Sumar. A position that was also defended by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the only member of … Read more

Catalan elections: Feijóo tangles with the PP candidate for Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The surprising advance of the Catalan elections has caught Alberto Núñez Feijóo with the wrong foot and without the homework done in Catalonia. The leader of the PP has been postponing for months the decision on the leadership of his Catalan party, which is also the decision on his project for Catalonia after two years … Read more

Pere Aragonès calls elections in Catalonia on May 12 | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Catalonia will hold early elections on May 12, nine months before the legislature expired. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, announced this Wednesday the dissolution of the Parliament after seeing the approval of the 2024 budget project truncated and the content of which he had agreed with the PSC. “I assume responsibility for this … Read more

Pere Aragonès calls elections in Catalonia on May 12 | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Catalonia will hold early elections on May 12, nine months before the legislature expired. The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, announced this Wednesday the dissolution of the Parliament after seeing the approval of the 2024 budget project truncated and the content of which he had agreed with the PSC. “I assume responsibility for this … Read more

Aragonès shakes the Spanish political board with the early elections in Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

The chips on the Spanish political board received a new shakeup this Wednesday from Catalonia, and not because of something already volcanic, such as the amnesty law, which is being voted on this Thursday in Congress. In a new unforeseen turn, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, called early elections for May 12 after … Read more

Political day of March 12, 2024 | The Senate approves its commission on the ‘Koldo case’ with the vote in favor of the PSOE | Spain

Almeida closes ranks with Ayuso and attacks the Government: “They want to divert attention” “What alarms me is the enrichment of Ábalos and Koldo, that is what alarms me,” said the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, during an event with questions in the capital. “This is an attempt to divert attention from what … Read more