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ECONOMY

Generalitat and agricultural sector say no to PAC

The Catalan government’s minister of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and food, Teresa Jordà, alongside Catalan agricultural and livestock organizations are opposing the new proposal for a common agricultural...

SOCIETY

Racist practices at three kings parades condemned

At some three kings parades Balthazar is still represented by a white person painting their face black. Of the Catalan cities with more than 75,000 inhabitants last year this still happened in two, Girona...

PARIS

Macron tries to calm “yellow vests”

The French president, Emmanuel Macron tries, without success, to calm the outrage of the ’yellow vests’. Macron made “a call for calm” when confronted with another day of demonstrations called...

spain

Díaz regrets not having used Catalonia issue to win votes

Solidarity with hunger strike

SOCIETY

Work by Amat and peace inscription for 17-A memorial

Barcelona City Council is to install an inscription with the phrase: “Let peace cover you, oh city of peace” in Spanish, Catalan and Arabic, along with a drawing by Frederic Amat near the Joan Miró...

Barça reserve players set for run out in Cup game

The return leg of the King’s Cup round of 16 at the Camp Nou always provides habitual and current champions Barça with the opportunity to give some reserve team players some minutes on the field. And...

economy

November rise in unemployment due to seasonality

Unemployment rose by 3,208 in Catalonia in November, leaving the total number of unemployed at 394,405. However, compared to the same month last year, the figure has fallen by 6.6%, a percentage equivalent...

culture

’La Bohème’ in a warehouse

United states

Trump says China will drop tariffs on US cars

Donald Trump said yesterday that the agreement reached with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit in Argentina includes “withdrawing and reducing” the 40% tariffs Beijing imposes on...