Barcelona City Council presented its plan this Friday to "democratize" green spaces in all of the city's neighborhoods by creating 25 new green areas on previously unused land. These new zones, presented by Mayor Jaume Collboni, are part of the first package of actions under the Proximity and Interior Spaces Program—framed within the Climate Plan—an urban planning initiative that the municipal government launched in 2024 to reclaim approximately 20 hectares of green space. "These are abandoned spaces that are designated as green but hadn't been transformed, and now we're activating them so that everyone can find them close to home," explained Collboni. The mayor referred to spaces that were "disused, forgotten, and not even perceived as spaces," and which the city now wants to repurpose. "Having these spaces close to home means having climate refuges and a higher quality of life in our neighborhoods," he emphasized.

City councilor Lluís Rabell has resigned from his position on the Barcelona City Council for health reasons. (November 2023) He already took a temporary break Rabell has also stepped down from his role as a member of the municipal government for medical reasons. But this time, the leave is permanent.

The announcement by Barcelona City Council of a new literary grant for Latin American authors The event held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) has stirred up controversy in the Catalan cultural and political world. Complaints from writers like Núria Cadenes and Melcior Comes have been joined by those from the Association of Writers in the Catalan Language (AELC), and finally, political unease: both the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Together for Catalonia (Junts per Catalunya) have called for its removal. For its part, the City Council's Deputy Mayor for Culture, Xavier Marcé, explained to Guadalajara that he finds it difficult "to see a controversy in this matter." According to Marcé, what should be done is to examine "the commitment to Catalan in relation to the overall initiatives and not just this specific action."

With 48 hours to go until the Diada, the state of the world, especially the Israeli massacre in Gaza, dominates the news. This morning, The Flotilla has reported a drone attack on one of its main vessels, docked in Tunisia.This is the moment. The alleged attack caused a fire, but no one was harmed.

While Serbian troops were besieging the population of Sarajevo from the surrounding hills, its Mayor, Muhamed Kreševljaković He escaped underground. The Bosnian army had dug a tunnel under the Bosnian capital's airport to transport goods and allow the population to pass through, avoiding the Serbian soldiers' faces. It was through this tunnel that the mayor managed to escape and take off on a plane bound for Barcelona. It was July 1992.

Israeli authorities have barred Barcelona Mayor Jaume Collboni from entering the country. He was scheduled to travel to Tel Aviv this Friday afternoon for an institutional trip during which he was scheduled to meet with mayors from the region.

The ultra-Catholic group Advocats Cristians (Christian Lawyers) has taken the poster for this year's La Mercè Festival in Barcelona to court. Specifically, the organization has filed a complaint against the mayor, Jaume Collboni, whom it considers "ultimately responsible" for the poster. As for the author of the work, the set designer and film director Lluís Danés, they are asking him to be a witness in the legal proceedings they intend to open.

Actress Emma Vilarasau will be the town crier for La Mercè 2025. This was announced this Thursday by the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, at the presentation of the first new features related to the city's main festival. The Mayor wished to recognize Vilarasau's four-decade career in the world of culture and acting. The actress will kick off the festivities in the Catalan capital.

Barcelona en Común's ultimatum to Jaume Collboni. The group's president, Janet Sanz, has issued a "final" warning to the mayor of Barcelona: either the municipal government stops the macro eviction of Vallcarca immediately or they won't agree on anything. "We won't even talk about the credit modification, nor about the tax ordinances or the budgets, nor about urban planning," he assured.

More frequent service, more innovative trains, and a new section of Line 9 is underway. The Barcelona metro will have 39 more trains starting in 2029, reconfiguring the current service. This was announced by the President of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Salvador Illa, and the Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, during the institutional centenary ceremony for the metro, held this Monday night in the auditorium of the Barcelona School of Industry. For the President, this measure will represent a "giant step" toward improving the Barcelona metro, which he described as a backbone of the capital and the cities in the metropolitan area. "Investing in public transport is one of the best ways to build a country," Illa argued.

Two years ago, when the newly appointed mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, visited the children of the Escola del Mar, now located in Guinardó, asked him why, despite what had been promised, the historic Barceloneta building, destroyed in 1938 by fascist bombs, had not been rebuilt. They caught the mayor off guard. He didn't know what they were talking about. And he told them he would get to work. Two years later, the children returned the visit to the city council this Friday and, smiling but determined, asked him the same question again: "Mayor, what about the reconstruction of the Escola del Mar?" The mayor told them it would be done, yes... But where and when is still unknown. The school would not be for them, but for the city. But they have become its own: they are its roots.

This Thursday marked one month since Jaume Collboni gave himself one. ultimatum With the reform of the 30% reserve, since the Círculo de Economía (Economy Circle) meetings, the mayor of Barcelona urged Junts and ERC to reach an agreement to modify the law. He even said at the time that he would like to approve the reform in the Urban Planning Commission that same month, a wish he was unable to fulfill. Now, however, the negotiations are entering the final stretch: conversations with Junts have multiplied, and the outcome seems imminent. If the municipal government wants to bring the 30% modification to the next Urban Planning Commission, it would have to approve it in the government commission this Thursday.

Barcelona escalates its stance on Israel, once again "breaking" its sister city relationship "until respect for international law and international humanitarian law is restored, and the basic rights of the Palestinian people are guaranteed." This is outlined in a joint proposal put forward by Mayor Jaume Collboni’s Socialist group and the Comuns party, just hours before it is set to be voted on at Friday’s city council plenary session.

About to reach the halfway point of his term, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, appeared this Wednesday in the Saló de Cent at City Hall to assess his government's performance so far. He considered his assessment "satisfactory" and boasted that it is beginning to yield results in some of the main concerns of Barcelona residents, such as security, cleanliness, and housing. "The policies we have implemented are going in the right direction," he said.

"It is probably the most serious economic error from a legislative perspective, committed by Pedro Sánchez's government, at the behest of Vice President Yolanda Díaz, in these 46 years of democracy." This is how the president of the Catalan Labour Promotion Agency, Josep Sánchez Llibre, described the legal imposition of the reduction of the working week to 37.5 hours during his speech at the Catalan employers' association's general assembly.

The tourism sector debate has returned to Barcelona with the sectoral conferences Tourism & Economy Barcelona Summit 2025, under the title A new resilient and sustainable tourism: Large cities and Barcelona's proposal. At this meeting, held in the Cosmocaixa auditorium, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​​​Jaume Collboni, opened the session by stating that the Catalan capital "has made a great change compared to 4 or 5 years ago" in the area of ​​tourism, because "decisions have been made to govern tourism, have quality tourism and eliminate its negative externalities."

In times of pandemic, culture was a refuge. And in dark times like the ones approaching, all voices turn once again to artists to serve as a beacon, a light at the end of the tunnel. "We find ourselves in a reactionary undertow that we must confront," said Mayor Jaume Collboni this Wednesday at the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards ceremony, "because the path to progress is that of culture, democracy, and the protection of the rights we have all won." The award winners in the thirteen cultural categories They are "those who set the course" for the city, which is why the mayor asked them to "make the revolution against reaction."

From the outside it looks like a mountain of wood, fabric and scrap metal. But once inside, the prevailing organisation reveals a small community of neighbours, more or less an avenue. Life in the Vallcarca shanty town "is hard". This is admitted by Florina Drosu, who has lived there for years and has opened the doors of the site to receive a team from the ARA and explain how they are organised and how she and the rest of the neighbours live.

Restaurants should display their labels in Catalan and their employees should speak it. The City Council should use Catalan in its communications and speeches. The annual financial contribution to the Consortium for the Linguistic Normalisation of Barcelona should be increased by one million euros. That the 68 measures to promote Catalan be implemented

That Montjuïc stops being Barcelona's backyard and becomes one of the nerve centres of Barcelona in the next decade. This is the proposal that the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni, presented this Wednesday at the event The mayor responds, an event that has been organised for decades by the College of Journalists and which serves as an opportunity for the mayor of the Catalan capital to present his plans. "Montjuïc must become one of the central axes of the new metropolitan Barcelona of the 21st century and of 2035," said Collboni, who called for the city to "embrace" the mountain.