US to carry on using military bases in Spain, Spaniards the Europeans least satisfied with their monarchy, toddler dies after being left in car and more news on Friday May 22nd.
Agreement between Spain and US on military bases renewed
A sharing arrangement between Spain and the US for the use of Spanish military bases has been renewed despite ongoing diplomatic tension.
For the time being, there is no withdrawal of US air and naval forces from the Spanish bases at Rota and Morón, despite repeated statements by the US President, Donald Trump, that Spain has not been a reliable ally.
When it expires this week, the bilateral defence pact between Spain and the US will be renewed for another year as it has entered into automatic renewal.
Toddler dies after being left in car by father in A Coruña
A two-year-old girl died on Wednesday in Brión in the A Coruña province of Galicia after suffering from heatstroke in a car.
According to sources consulted by SER, the emergency services received a call around 5 p.m. and the child was taken to the Bertamiráns emergency centre in the neighbouring municipality of Ames.
It was there that the child’s father admitted that he had left the girl inside the vehicle whilst he was at work and temperatures exceeded 25 degrees in the region.
Spain the European country least satisfied with its monarchy
Spanish people are the least satisfied with its monarchy of all European nations, polling has shown.
Of the seven major European countries with parliamentary monarchies (Spain along with the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands) Spain is the only one in which more than half the population feels little or no satisfaction with the institution and would prefer to change the form of government to a republic.
This is according to a study by the University of Murcia, funded by the Ministry of Science, which stems from a group of researchers’ interest in obtaining scientific and verified data on the impressions that monarchs make on their subjects in the 21st century.
Spain strengthen ties with Canada and seals AI partnership
An official visit to Canada by Spain’s King Felipe VI and Economy Minister, Carlos Cuerpo, has resulted in the first major artificial intelligence agreement between the two countries.
According to the Ministry of Economy, Cuerpo and his Canadian counterpart, Evan Solomon, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Wednesday to strengthen cooperation in AI and lay the foundations for three agreements between companies from both countries.
The Canadian AI giant Cohere, has signed agreements with both Multiverse Computing – a Basque firm specialising in quantum computing – and with Indra. These are joined by a third agreement between Multiverse and the Canadian firm Coveo, which specialises in software solutions.
