The fact that both Spain and France have experienced the worst fires in their history – that of the Community of Madrid and Ávila, and Bordeaux, respectively – has a scientific explanation. The meteorological conditions that favor large fires have intensified by up to 50% in these two countries over the last decade, according to the conclusions of the study published this Thursday in the journal Nature. The article comes to light the same day that the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ended the "national emergency" due to fires in the center of the State, which have already burned more than 75,000 hectares.

Updates to the list of Catalan municipalities that meet the conditions for applying the rent price cap. The Generalitat has reviewed the declaration of municipalities considered a tense residential market area and has incorporated and excluded several towns: after conducting a study on the housing situation, the Government proposes that 302 municipalities have official recognition that their housing market is tense.

Lawyer Khaled Quzmar(1964) has been working for almost four decades to defend the rights of the Palestinian population. Executive Director of the Palestinian Centre for Child Rights (PCCR), a few days ago he visited Barcelona at the invitation of the NGO Mundubat to denounce the impact of the occupation and genocide on children in Gaza and the West Bank. He spoke to ARA before meeting with representatives of the Parliament and travelling to Madrid to meet with the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego.Since October 7, 2023, more than 20,000 Palestinian minors have been killed in Gaza, 44,000 have been injured, and 58,000 have been orphaned, according to UN data.

The day after the European justice's endorsement of the amnesty everyone builds their own narrative. While the independence movement celebrates the ECJ's decision, but warns that this does not end the repression, both the Catalan and Spanish governments see their "reconciliation" agenda validated and claim the end of the "political crisis" between Catalonia and the State. Moreover, the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, has assured that if he "were Carles Puigdemont" he would return to Spain, "without a doubt". "We must face up to it once and for all," he said in an interview with RNE, as reported by Efe. This attitude has not pleased Junts at all, as the arrest warrant remains in effect and the former president would be arrested. "What misery and frivolity," replied the party's general secretary, Jordi Turull. After this, party sources consulted by ARA reaffirm their break with the Spanish government, also after the ECJ's ruling in favor of amnesty.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has given a clear endorsement to the amnesty law this Thursday, which has triggered a wave of reactions uniting the independence movement and the Catalan and Spanish governments in a single demand: the immediate application of the law by the Spanish judiciary. The ruling has been received as a "resounding victory", although with the caution of knowing that the final executive decision rests with the state courts. In the words of former president Carles Puigdemont, "the game will no longer be played in Europe but at the Bernabéu, with the referees and the crowd leaning to one side".

Mariano Rajoy not only downplayed his racist comment about the French team, backed by the PP, but now he is resisting apologizing. Amid the euphoria over Spain's progress to the World Cup final, the former Spanish president has published a new article in El Debate in which he discusses the controversy surrounding him. A chronicle with little footballing content and a lot of politics, in which he directly attacks the Spanish government: "They don't apologize for anything," he even says.

The CNI spied on Carles Riera and David Fernàndez for alleged "activities contrary to national security". The agency had the phones of the two former CUP deputies infected with Pegasus for almost two years and six months, respectively, and had the authorization of the Supreme Court.

The eviction of residents from the eight affected blocks is extended due to last Tuesday's sinkhole, caused by the works on metro line L9. The general director of Infrastructure of the Generalitat, Ramon Ramírez, has explained that the technicians have recommended carrying out new checks on the state of the land beneath the buildings where the hole occurred and, for this reason, the residents will not be able to return to their homes at least until Friday of next week. The possibility of them returning this Saturday is thus ruled out.

Plot twist with a few days until the Kitchen trial ends. The National High Court judge Antonio Piña, who is investigating the case, has finally agreed to investigate the audio recordings of conversations between María Dolores de Cospedal and José Manuel Villarejo about the operation to try to steal information from Luis Bárcenas that could compromise the PP. The former general secretary of the PP, who was also Minister of Defense, had until now one of the big protected names of the case, but justice has finally decided to put a magnifying glass on it due to recordings that also implicate former president Mariano Rajoy.

New step forward in the case of the alleged sexual assault by the former Deputy Operational Director (DAO) of the National Police José Ángel González. The judge in Madrid investigating the case, which stems from the complaint by a police officer, sees clear indications of the crime in the proceedings carried out so far and, as it is a serious offense, has decided to transform the preliminary proceedings into a summary, the phase prior to sending the case to trial. According to a ruling to which ARA has had access, the investigated facts "bear the hallmarks of an alleged sexual assault offense", which – he adds – should be tried by the Provincial Court of Madrid.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, the all-powerful chief of staff for Isabel Díaz Ayuso, will not go "forward", using the expression he himself has so often used against PSOE leaders. The judge has decided to dismiss the case against him for leaking the names and photo of two journalists from El País who were investigating the tax fraud case of the Madrid president's boyfriend. After hearing the statements of both Rodríguez and Alberto González Amador, Ayuso's partner, the magistrate considers that there are no indications of a breach of secrecy, as stated in the order to which ARA has had access. The PSOE has already warned that it will appeal the decision.

The Supreme Court expresses doubts about the legality of the extraordinary regularization of migrants that the Spanish government has promoted and which ends this Tuesday. In two rulings to which ARA has had access, the high court questions the fit of the decree approved by Pedro Sánchez's executive within European law and gives five days to the parties involved against the process – in this case the government of Aragon and that of the Valencian Community, both from the PP – to pronounce on the suitability of raising a preliminary question to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), based in Luxembourg.

The PP's crusade to bring down Pedro Sánchez runs into the fact that it depends on Catalan and Basque parties for it to have real effects. In this context, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has revived one of those proposals that the popular party has in mind to end the dependence on independence movements in the Congress of Deputies and, in turn, also on Vox, to whom they are increasingly tied in more autonomies. The PP leader has proposed an electoral reform that would give the winning list a "plus" of deputies "to facilitate stability." A scenario that could have prevented Pedro Sánchez from governing this legislature in which the sum of PP and Vox fell just four deputies short of an absolute majority. This is what Feijóo defended in an interview this Monday on EsRadio, after being directly asked about ways to prevent "minority groups from being overrepresented" in the lower house.

The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona has admitted for processing a complaint against Pilar Rahola for the crimes of incitement to hatred and complicity with genocide in Gaza. As reported by El matí de Catalunya Ràdio and confirmed by ARA, the public prosecutor's office has ordered proceedings against the Mossos following the complaint filed by two militants of the Socialist Youth Organization (OJS), who pointed out the communicator for her political and media activity and her public statements in favor of the state of Israel and its actions in Palestine.

The PSC, Esquerra and Comuns have reached an agreement to increase the tourist tax for cruise ships calling at Barcelona. Through an amendment to the Generalitat's budget accompanying law, presented this Tuesday in Parliament, the three groups will force an increase in the tax to 30 euros for ships that are less than 12 hours in the Catalan capital.

Zapatero's jewels have been making headlines for days and, since this Friday, they are the subject of a new separate piece in the Plus Ultra case at the National Court. Judge José Luis Calama has agreed to also investigate the former Spanish president for the possession of these valuable objects because he considers that there are indications of alleged tax and smuggling offenses.there are indications of alleged tax and smuggling offenses. The basis for his decision is the preliminary appraisal of the jewels – located in the office of the former PSOE leader – which have been valued at 1,323,915 euros. The appraisal report, to which ARA has had access, analyzes the estimated market price (including taxes) of up to 79 pieces of jewelry, among which necklaces worth more than 220,000 euros and earrings worth 80,000 euros stand out.

The PSOE has been forced to get used to surprises. The latest jolt of a stormy legislature has been caused by the jewels that the Spanish police found in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's office almost a month ago. The Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) searched it on the judge's orders, who places the former Spanish president at the forefront of an influence peddling scheme. But the judicial horizon is becoming even more difficult after the appraisal of the jewels valued them at 1.3 million euros and has led to a separate case to investigate him for smuggling and tax evasion. So far, the investigation pointed, among other crimes, to criminal organization, influence peddling, money laundering, and document forgery. Zapatero's spokesperson stated a few days ago that they would be valued at 50,000 euros at most, and the former president's secretary told the Spanish police that they came from Zapatero's wife's inheritance and from gifts from trips.

"Educational dignity has won" and "It wasn't about money. We are fighting for a new educational model". These have been the messages of the two main banners of this Friday's teacher mobilization. The first was the banner at the head of the demonstration that gathered around 15,200 teachers in Barcelona's Lluís Companys promenade, according to the Guàrdia Urbana, and up to 90,000 according to the unions. A banner that, unlike those of recent demonstrations, was entirely yellow – the color in defense of public schools – and without the name of any union. The second banner is that of the stage in Parc de la Ciutadella, where the demonstration ended with speeches and a booing of teachers at the spokesperson for the USTEC union, Iolanda Segura, after the organization campaigned for a yes vote on the agreement with Education and in its own consultation, 65% of teachers voted against it.

The day has arrived. After 72 hours of voting, teachers revealed this midday that they reject the preliminary agreement of the majority unions and Education. They did so in a consultation in which more than 60,000 teachers participated (approximately 60% of the teachers and professors in the public education system). Of these, 65.1% rejected the agreement and, therefore, have committed to continuing to mobilize. In contrast, those who viewed the preliminary agreement favorably remained at 34.9%.

Without any reference to the judicial cases surrounding his environment, but with an announcement that is the message itself, Pedro Sánchez is pushing the legislature forward and this week will begin the process of presenting the 2027 budgets. The announcement was made before Catalan business leaders and also the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, at this year's conference of the Cercle d'Economia in Barcelona. Sánchez has claimed the need for state accounts, which would be the first of the legislature and would arrive at the most delicate moment of the term, when cases of alleged corruption are increasingly besieging the environment of the Spanish president.