Society
Retail and restaurant sectors denounce ‘discrimination’ in Covid measures
Children’s toilet training potties displayed in front of government HQ denouncing handling of pandemic
training
Sports
Home workouts and staying motivated: challenges of lockdown for top level athletes
Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls confined at home look for space to train
Sports
‘Training is a way of keeping a routine’: Lockdown life of a professional basketball player
Pere Tomàs, the Bàsquet Manresa three, on the impact to his training regime and finding motivation during lockdown
Politics
Sabadell airport to become one of Europe’s top training centers, plans mayor
The Socialist mayor outlines her proposals for the city in an interview with the Catalan News Agency
Sports
Pain is only temporary. Jogging becomes a phenomenon in Catalonia
Sports
FC Barcelona to appeal to CAS against FIFA ban to sign new players in 2015
Sports
Luis Suárez to join Barça training on Friday after the CAS nuance the FIFA sanction
Sports
Hopeful youngsters combine football with studies at the FC Barcelona youth academy
Sports
FC Barcelona to appeal the sanction imposed by the FIFA banning the club from signing new players
Politics
Baden-Württemberg Vice President: “It’s up to the Catalans to decide if they feel better in Spain or on a stand-alone basis”
Society
Catalan schools to provide part of their curriculum in English and to teach a second foreign language
Business
The Union for the Mediterranean launches a project to train logistic sector workers in Northern Africa
The €6.6 million project will last for 6 years and will start in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. It aims to strengthen the training of logistics sector workers in 10 countries in the Southern Mediterranean area. During the project’s presentation in Barcelona, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbouring Policy, Stefan Füle, asked for a greater financial commitment from the 43 countries that are members of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). He lamented that “it is not healthy” that the European Commission continues to be the main funding source for the UfM. Three years after unveiling its permanent Secretariat in the Catalan capital, the UfM is starting its first projects.
Sports
Éric Abidal training in the Catalan Pyrenees
The FC Barcelona’s defender is recovering from his liver transplant and he is doing specific training work at the Val d’Aran County, which hosts a National Park. During his stay, where he will be following a specific plan, the French defender will be combining aerobic work with activities on the field, which will start to include exercises with the ball.