News from El Punt Avui

transport

Government rail service to get ecological trains

The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat, the government’s rail service, is to get new ecological and sustainable trains from 2020. Specifically, 15 new trains will be introduced, which will be made from recyclable...

New places for police and firefighters announced

The government yesterday approved the immediate creation of 750 places for new Mossos d’Esquadra police officers and 250 places for firefighters. Yet, the announcement did not stop members of both forces...

Court of Audits was asked to claim 2m from Puigdemont

Big march planned for 21st

Brussels

EU diplomatic communications hacked

spain

Laura Luelmo was sexually assaulted

Laura Luelmo’s autopsy revealed that she had been sexually assaulted. Her neighbor, Bernador Montoya, who was arrested on Tuesday, confessed yesterday. Luelmo died after being hit in the head by a heavy...

cuba

Gay marriage not in the constitution afterall

The committee drafting the new Cuban constitution eliminated the article that opened the door to same-sex marriage due to alleged opposition. “The comittee proposes defering the concept of marriage,...

politics

Silenci makes it to the Supreme Court

Silenci, Rebel·leu-vos yesterday took their daily protest from Tarragona to Madrid, right up to the doorstep of the Supreme Court and the chamber of the Congress of Deputies in Madrid. Fifty people did...

economy

Llibre to be next vice-president of CEOE

The board of directors of CEOE, at the suggestion of its president, Antonio Garamendi, appointed Josep Sánchez Llibre (president of Foment del Treball) yesterday as vice president of the organization....

Sánchez and Torra meeting on agenda