May forms new government as Cameron prepares to move out

A moving truck and cardboard boxes could be seen outside 10 Downing Street yesterday as David Cameron began to pack up and make way for his replacement, Theresa May. Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom's sudden withdrawal from the leadership race on Monday has led to fast-track political change in the UK. Cameron presided over the last meeting of his government yesterday with May still Home Secretary. And today he will endure his last session of Prime Minister's questions in the House of Commons, before officially presenting his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II and proposing May as his substitute.

El PP torna a apujar els impostos

Els ministres de Finances de la Unió Europea (Ecofin) van aprovar ahir l'inici del procediment de sanció a Espanya per haver superat el límit del dèficit. La sanció, en el pitjor dels casos, pot arribar als 2.000 milions d'euros. A més, hi pot haver una congelació dels fons estructurals del 2017. El govern espanyol en funcions, ignorant les pressions i el poder d'Alemanya, confia que tal multa no se substanciarà o que només serà simbòlica. Espanya, al·lega el govern popular, s'ha esforçat per reduir el dèficit, encara que Cristóbal Montoro transmeti a les autonomies el missatge contrari.

Unambiguous pro-independence stance, a new acronym and goodbye to the Pujol family: what has changed in CDC in four years

The shocks from the 2012-2016 period end with an unprecedented structure and a separation between the presidency of the Generalitat and that of the party.

The Reus exhibition center welcomed the sixteenth Convergència conference from March 23-25, 2012. A few hours before it began, Oriol Pujol was seen happily walking onstage inside the venue. "Today is my Saint's Day!", he announced to the reporters who arrived at the capital of the Baix Camp county to attend the press conference prior to the beginning of three days that ended with the inclusion of a new state as a party goal. Indeed, 71% of the 2,000 delegates who attended the conclave defended this option, and 91% said that they would vote in favor of independence in a hypothetical referendum on the nation's political future. Four years later, independence is unambiguously supported, and the Pujol family, after the string of corruption cases associated with them, has gradually vanished from the scene. These are the five aspects that have marked the evolution of the nationalist initials --CDC has become the Catalan Democratic Party by decision of the founding members of the party-- over the past four years.

Cross-party group to call for UK federation

A cross-party committee is to propose the UK become a federation of four nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). The committee believes such an arrangement would avoid the country's disintegration after the Brexit vote was split, with England and Wales voting to leave the EU and voters in Scotland and Ireland (and London) voting to stay. Scotland has already said it now wants a second referendum on independence.

The Constitution Reform Group is led by former minister Lord Salisbury, with former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell, former Labour secretary for NI and Wales Peter Hain, former Commons secretary Lord Lisvane and ex-NI Unionist MP David Burnside.

Sanders ratifica Clinton com a candidata demòcrata a la Casa Blanca

• El senador i precandidat a les presidencials expressa el seu suport a l'exsecretària d'Estat després de pressionar amb força perquè el seu programa tingui més contingut social
• Els fins ara rivals a les primàries celebren el seu primer acte electoral conjunt

El senador i aspirant demòcrata a la presidència Bernie Sanders ha reconegut aquest dimarts la victòria a les primàries de la seva rival, Hillary Clinton.

“Hillary Clinton ha guanyat el procés de nominació demòcrata i faré tot el que calgui per garantir que ella sigui la pròxima presidenta dels Estats Units”, ha dit Sanders en el primer acte electoral conjunt al costat de l'exsecretària d'Estat a Nou Hampshire, al nord-est del país.