Major Changes in Spanish Municipal Power: PP and Vox Gain Ground in Provincial Capitals

Most of the town councils in Spain have been constituted this Saturday after the 28M elections, marking a significant change in the municipal power across the country. One of the biggest surprises occurred in Barcelona, where the ‘municipalities’ of Ada Colau and the PP managed to make the socialist Jaume Collboni the mayor in a … Read more

this will affect the garbage collection

The threat of a strike of the Housekeeping from Barcelona it’s becoming more real. To the call initiated by UGTthis Thursday the unions have joined BCC y CGT. Some 4,000 employees they are called to the parade and the organizers warn: “Chaos is approaching” in the city, say the members of CGT. If he City … Read more

protagonists Copa América Barcelona institutions private investors

After constituting Barcelona & Partnersan agency to attract investment and talent to the Catalan capital, Global Barcelonachaired by Aurora CatàHe turned on his radar. And in it appeared last January the 37th edition of the Sailing America’s Cup in 2024, an event that goes beyond sports and with an economic impact “more structural than conjunctural”, … Read more

They dismantle a drug store in a block of the Barcelona City Council

The Mossos d’Esquadra have evicted this Tuesday in the Poble-sec neighborhood of Barcelona a narcolocal from a block owned by the City Council. Fulfilling an order of the Court of First Instance number 46 of Barcelona, ​​the police have accompanied the judicial procession and has dismantled the premises, located at 61 Elkano Street. According to … Read more

Barcelona will invest 26 million of the Neighborhood Plan in Sant Andreu and Sant Martí

The museumization of the Cases Barates del Bon Pastor is among the main actions The city council proposes to export the initiative to the metropolitan area and contributes 85 million – The finally, museization of the Cheap Houses of Good Shepherd, the one also long claimed and already presented conversion into multidisciplinary equipment of the … Read more

The Government and the City Council reject street violence in Barcelona

The Minister of the Interior, Miquel Sàmper, pointed out this Monday that the perpetrators of the riots in the protests Saturday against the imprisonment of rapper Pablo Hasel come from numerous and heterogeneous groups, among which he has placed Italian anarchists. This was detailed by Sàmper in a press conference with the mayor of Barcelona, … Read more

Barcelona will vacate beaches if access control is not enough

The coronavirus crisis has given rise to unpublished images in the last decades of Barcelona: places frequented by tourism now appear semi-empty, available to citizens, children play near the Cathedral without the need to squeeze, the photos seem from another era . But not on the beaches. The beaches get crowded despite the fact that … Read more

The State will auction the leisure venues on the seafront

Barcelona’s seafront could maintain part of nightlife that the city council wanted to eradicate. The intention of the State, owner of the land in dispute, is selling spaces dedicated to economic activity under auctiona, with the exception of some pieces that do not include the eight restaurants and clubs located between the Hotel Arts and … Read more