Received like a star, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, went to the upper area of Barcelona this Monday to support the PP candidate in Catalonia, Alejandro Fernández. Hugging a little dog wearing a t-shirt with the slogan “We love you Isabel,” Ayuso took the stage to harshly attack everything that was not her autonomous government.
“We must reverse once and for all the corrupt business that the independence movement represents,” he blurted out as soon as he began. “The more decentralized Spain is, the more they are sinking it,” he added, just 72 hours after the leader of his party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, boasted in Mataró that the PP was the “most autonomist party in Spain.”
The place chosen for the event was Plaza Artós, the epicenter of the wealthiest far-right in Barcelona and the starting point of ultra demonstrations throughout the process. It was also the place that Vox chose to close its campaign in 2021. For the PP candidate for the Generalitat, however, this square symbolizes “the place where some tremendously brave anonymous young people came out to demonstrate in favor of the equality of Spaniards.” .
Ayuso has blamed Pedro Sánchez and the independence movement for all of Catalonia’s ills, including the lack of rain. “This summer you won’t even be able to fill your pools,” he stated, “you have to open your eyes and break the chains.”
With continuous references to “freedom”, the Madrid president has vindicated her fiscal policies and the economic management of her Executive. “Catalonia was greatly admired from Madrid,” she insisted. “What style, how seni [sic]”, he continued. “They have taken away the cosmopolitan and avant-garde vision that you had.”
Ayuso, who has previously met with the restaurateurs’ union, has criticized the existence in Catalonia of “15 own taxes” that do not exist in Madrid. “Everything is bureaucracy, everything is obstacles and political impunity,” he continued. “Close, turn off, prohibit, more regulations, everyone go home at 11, that’s not how life works… Enough of directing Catalan society!” he noted amidst applause from the public. “It’s not that difficult, copy the policies that work in Madrid and stop confronting us between Autonomous Communities.”
Ayuso has also contrasted TV3 with Telemadrid to say that the journalists of Catalan public television are “regime press” unlike the television of his community. “This hurts me a lot as a journalist,” added the president of Madrid, who when she came to power she undertook a legislative reform to be able to appoint the director of public television only with a simple majority of the regional chamber.
The leader popular He has also dedicated part of his speech to attacking the PSC candidate, Salvador Illa, and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. “Socialism is a Trojan horse of xenophobic and frontist independence,” he said. “They take equality to the downside and little else, they hate good taste and style, they like everything to be tacky and decadent.”
Ayuso has drawn Illa as a puppet of a supposed “Bolivarian republic” commanded by Sánchez in which there is no separation of powers or judicial independence. He has even gone so far as to claim that, when the socialist candidate was Minister of Health during the pandemic, “he illegally closed Madrid to be able to campaign in Catalonia.”
The president of the CAM concluded her speech by asking for support from Vox voters and demanding not to divide the votes of the right. “By dividing the vote they are now dismantling Spain,” she concluded. “On Sunday go out and vote for Catalonia but also for all of Spain, because Spain needs you and we can’t take this pain anymore.”
The EU states have agreed on the definitive form of the migration package
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The now approved position of the bloc states is final, the new migration and asylum rules will only have to be formally approved by the Union ministers, specifically at the meeting of finance ministers next week on Tuesday. The European Parliament supported the package in a plenary session at the beginning of April.
Among other things, the series of standards envisages more effective checks on migrants and the faster return of unsuccessful asylum seekers to their countries of origin. It also introduces the principle that those countries of the Union that are overloaded by migration pressure will be helped by others in solidarity, either by taking over part of the migrants from them, or by supporting them financially or materially.
The migration pact pitted government MEPs against the Austrian
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In the European Parliament, the vote on the package, which consists of ten legislative proposals, was a drama until the last moment. Support for all ten regulations was not at all certain, and individual factions counted every vote.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the so-called Coreper II, i.e. the ambassadors of the EU member states, the representatives of the countries dealt with the preparation of the ministerial meeting for next week. The positions of the individual countries also showed what the positions of the ministers will be during the formal approval next week. Therefore, it is not expected that the package would subsequently fail. Hungary and Poland failed to convince other states to form a blocking minority together. Slovakia rejected two parts of the pact, and abstained from the rest.
In Britain, they passed a law enabling the deportation of migrants to Rwanda
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The negotiators of the European Parliament, the Spanish Presidency as a representative of the member countries of the bloc and the European Commission (EC) agreed on the final form of the migration and asylum pact last December. The Czech Republic, which had reservations about this compromise, abstained on February 8 when the EU ambassadors confirmed the agreement in Brussels.
The Czech government then came to the conclusion that the final form of the Pact on Migration and Asylum is worse for the Czech Republic than the one in which the Czech Republic participated during its presidency. The Czech Ministry of the Interior stated that the reform steps are less ambitious than the Czech Republic expected, the administrative burden is increasing and the possibility of effectively preventing illegal migration already at the external border of the European Union is decreasing.
The Czech Republic reiterated its reservations in a statement prepared by the Ministry of the Interior, which Prague already presented at the February meeting. In the document, the Czech Republic justifies its vote and mentions that the compromise form from the trialogue is not entirely according to the ideas of the Czech government.
The Czech Republic does not have to accept migrants, it can pay off, documents show
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Gold prices are rising and the dollar is heading towards its first weekly decline
The dollar is heading towards recording its first weekly decline in 2024 as investors catch their breath after declining expectations regarding the Federal Reserve (central bank) reducing interest rates soon led to a rise in the US currency, while gold’s performance is characterized by achieving gains.
The dollar has rebounded this year thanks to strong economic data and warnings from Federal Reserve officials that the battle against inflation is far from over, supporting expectations that interest rate cuts will be delayed until June or later in the year.
The dollar index rose 0.06% to 103.96 points, but is heading towards its first weekly decline since December by about 0.28%. The euro settled in the latest trading at $1.0823. The yen fell 0.8% against the euro this week, touching its lowest level in 3 months, yesterday, Thursday, at 163.45 per euro. The dollar increased 0.15% to trade at 150.75 yen this week, according to Reuters data.
Investors can benefit from the variation in interest rates through what is called carry trading, by borrowing in yen at about 0% and purchasing income-generating assets in other currencies.
The Chinese yuan has recorded stable performance since the Lunar New Year holiday, and barely moved this week from the level of 7.1959 to the dollar despite the sharp cuts in mortgage interest rates in China.
In the precious metals market, gold prices rose today, Friday, and are heading to record their first weekly rise in 3 weeks, after the widespread weakness of the dollar and tensions in the Middle East increased the attractiveness of the precious metal.
By 04:11 GMT, the price of an ounce of gold in instant transactions rose 0.1% to $2025.7. It rose 0.7% since the beginning of the week. US futures also increased 0.2% to $2,035.3, according to Reuters.
As for the rest of the precious metals, platinum fell in spot transactions by 0.4% to $898.05, and palladium by 0.2% to $965.69, while silver rose 0.2% to $22.78, but has fallen by 2.6% this week so far.
Gold prices are rising and the dollar is heading towards its first weekly decline
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