The Constitutional Court has unanimously decided not to admit the latest attempt by the ultraconservative Catholic group Christian Lawyers to halt Noelia's euthanasia, which has been suspended since the summer of 2024 due to legal proceedings initiated by her father. The Constitutional Court ruled that no human rights had been violated during this process, and its decision does not close the last opportunity Noelia's father and Christian Lawyers had in the Spanish legal system to prevent the young woman's decision.

Despite being in Madrid, Costa-Gavras (Loutra-Iraias, 1933) has not been alien to the dynamics of Sant Jordi during the promotion in Spain ofThe last breath (The last souffle (in the original version), his latest film about death with dignity, which premieres this Friday. The Greek film director – French by adoption – turns to his friend Jorge Semprún, who died in Paris in 2011, when choosing a literary recommendation. The long journey It is the testimony of an era marked by totalitarianism, one of the great themes of the filmmaker's filmography, which he addressed in collaboration with the Spanish writer and politician in films such as Z (1969) or The confession (1970). "Semprún and I had started to think about a film about the Spanish Civil War. Unfortunately, he fell ill," he recalled this Wednesday.

Catalonia has been one of the first regions in Spain to implement the euthanasia law, after Spain definitively approved its decriminalisation in March, and since 25 June the right to end one's own life with medical assistance in the case of suffering a severe and incurable illness, with insufferable pain, or a severe, chronic and disabling illness, can now be exercised in Catalonia. Since then, 24 people have already exercised this right and received help to die in Catalonia.