No one from ERC has addressed the Maragall family directly to apologize in the last two years. Cristina Maragall, one of the daughters of the former mayor of Barcelona and president of the Generalitat, lamented this Monday that the Esquerra leadership has not requested "a clearer and more sensitive apology to the entire collective [of Alzheimer's patients]" and explained, in statements to BTV, that neither the family nor the foundation have received any message from the party. Sources from ERC explain that this will change immediately once they have closed the internal investigation of the case, the conclusions of which were presented last Saturday to the militants present at the meeting of the party's national council.

Doctor, what's happening to Barcelona? Jordi Amat, who isn't a doctor but makes astute diagnoses, seeks answers to the sense of loss that has been taking hold in the city for years and is escalating into a full-blown revolt. Loss of the right to housing, loss of identity and civic vitality, loss of a collective project—in short, democratic loss. He explores this in his essay The Battles of Barcelona (Edicions 62), a personal journey through cultural imaginaries—literature, film, music—over the last fifty years. At the book's official launch at the Academy of Fine Arts, the institution that awarded him its prize for humanistic essays, historian Borja de Riquer and philosopher Josep Ramoneda were present this Thursday.