I have come to the conclusion that journalism in the West has been replaced by hired narratives and that reporters report the narrative that they are hired to tell. It is a new form of vanity press in which interest groups hire a propaganda service to market their agenda. I will present a current example....
Richard Parker provides a well-researched account. Read his account as a check on the accuracy of my brief summary: Here in brief is the documented story given to the police by the female Cornell Student. In October 2024, she agreed to sexual activity known as threesomes, in this case FMM. The activity with varying male...
En España, el calendario vacacional sigue teniendo un protagonista indiscutible. De acuerdo con el 17º Informe de Temporada de ObservaTUR de 2026, elaborado antes del verano, el 36% de los españoles que tenía previsto viajar eligió agosto para disfrutar de sus vacaciones, mientras que el 33% optó por julio y el 17% por septiembre. En conjunto, estos tres meses concentran el 86% de las preferencias, confirmando que el verano continúa siendo el gran momento del año para hacer las maletas y desconectar de la rutina. Para muchos trabajadores, además, estas fechas permiten coordinar el descanso con el de familiares y amigos, algo que explica en parte su enorme peso dentro del calendario de viajes.
Pero cuando septiembre queda atrás, todavía hay margen para una escapada. Octubre se presenta como una alternativa especialmente atractiva para quienes prefieren viajar con más calma y evitar la intensidad de los meses estivales. Hay menos aglomeraciones en muchos destinos, las temperaturas suelen ser más contenidas y agradables y los paisajes comienzan a mostrar una cara diferente, lo que convierte al décimo mes del año en una oportunidad para viajar sin el calor intenso del verano ni el frío propio de los meses posteriores.
Es también un momento interesante para quienes buscan disfrutar de una ciudad, hacer una ruta gastronómica o pasar unos días en contacto con la naturaleza sin encontrarse con la elevada afluencia del periodo estival. A este escenario se suma ahora una oportunidad marcada en rojo en el calendario. A mediados de octubre llega un puente de tres días que permitirá a los trabajadores de toda España disfrutar de un descanso adicional sin necesidad de esperar a las próximas vacaciones.
Puente de tres días para los trabajadores el 12 de octubre
Se trata del 12 de octubre, el Día de la Hispanidad, que en 2026 cae en lunes y permite encadenar la jornada festiva con el sábado y el domingo, una combinación que puede servir para hacer una escapada corta, visitar a familiares o simplemente recuperar fuerzas. Para quienes todavía no hayan viajado después del verano, puede convertirse en una última ocasión para organizar unos días de desconexión antes de que termine el año.
El 12 de octubre se celebra la Fiesta Nacional de España, una festividad establecida como tal por la Ley 18/1987, de 7 de octubre. Su carácter de fiesta nacional y su inclusión en el calendario laboral hacen que sea una jornada festiva de ámbito estatal y no sustituible por las comunidades autónomas.
Además, el artículo 37.2 del Estatuto de los Trabajadores establece que las fiestas laborales tendrán carácter retribuido y no recuperable, con un máximo de catorce al año, dos de ellas de carácter local. La fecha tiene por tanto una doble dimensión, institucional por su significado como Fiesta Nacional y práctica para los trabajadores que pueden disfrutar de una jornada de descanso.
¿Qué festivos autónomicos y nacionales quedan en 2026?
Después del 12 de octubre, el calendario de 2026 todavía reserva varias fechas festivas, aunque su aplicación puede variar según la comunidad autónoma. El 2 de noviembre será festivo en varias comunidades como Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Canarias, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Madrid y Navarra, mientras que el 7 de diciembre será festivo en varias autonomías y el 8 de diciembre, Día de la Inmaculada Concepción, tendrá carácter nacional.
Entre las fiestas autonómicas que quedan desde octubre destaca el 9 de octubre, Día de la Comunidad Valenciana, mientras que en diciembre se mantiene el 26 de diciembre, San Esteban, como festivo autonómico en Baleares y Cataluña, con la particularidad de que en Arán se sustituyó por el 17 de junio. Por último, y como bien es sabido, el calendario concluye con la festividad nacional del 25 de diciembre.
The European Parliament’s debate on Monday, October 5th, comes at an awkward moment for Brussels. After years of confrontation with Viktor Orbán, the European Commission now believes Hungary has done enough to justify releasing €4.2 billion in cohesion funding and restoring full access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe.
The question before MEPs is therefore deceptively simple: have the conditions really been met, or has Brussels simply found a convenient political moment to declare victory?
The answer matters well beyond Hungary. The original dispute was not some abstract quarrel over Brussels etiquette. In 2022, the EU suspended €6.3 billion in Hungarian cohesion funding after identifying deficiencies in public procurement, conflicts of interest, corruption controls and the effectiveness of prosecutorial action. The conditionality mechanism was deliberately designed to make access to EU taxpayers’ money dependent upon safeguards for the rule of law and the protection of the EU budget.
That principle is important. If membership of the EU means anything, it cannot mean that governments receive billions regardless of whether public money is properly administered.
But Hungary has changed politically. Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule ended with Péter Magyar’s decisive election victory in April. Magyar campaigned partly on repairing Hungary’s relationship with Brussels and unlocking the billions frozen during the Orbán years. His government subsequently notified the Commission that it had implemented the required reforms.
The Commission has now accepted that argument — albeit partially. Its September 23rd proposal says Hungary has addressed the rule-of-law breaches affecting the EU budget, citing improvements in public procurement, the anti-corruption framework, prevention of conflicts of interest and prosecutorial effectiveness. If the Council approves the proposal, €4.2 billion in cohesion commitments will be reinstated and Hungarian students and researchers will regain full access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe.
That is a substantial political prize for Magyar, and a substantial test for the EU.
The danger for Brussels is obvious. Having spent years insisting that European money must not subsidise corruption or institutional capture, the Commission cannot now appear to have changed the rules simply because a more congenial government has arrived in Budapest.
There is, however, an equally serious danger on the other side. If Hungary has genuinely implemented the reforms demanded by Brussels, continuing to withhold money would make the conditionality mechanism look less like a defence of European values and more like a political punishment system. That would be profoundly damaging. Rules that apply only to governments Brussels likes are not rules at all.
This is why Monday’s debate matters – and the €4.2 billion is only part of the story.
The Commission has made clear that other Hungarian funds remain blocked. Around €3.5 billion is affected by a separate mechanism, including approximately €2.7 billion linked to horizontal conditions concerning the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, including academic freedom, LGBTI rights and asylum.
Meanwhile, Hungary is still seeking access to roughly €10 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The new Hungarian recovery plan includes measures on anti-corruption, public procurement, transparency, judicial independence and stakeholder participation, with payments tied to the achievement of specific milestones.
So this is not a clean victory for either side.
For Magyar, the release of €4.2 billion demonstrates that his strategy of accommodation with Brussels is delivering tangible results. For the Commission, it provides an opportunity to demonstrate that conditionality can work: reforms are made, the Commission verifies them, and money is released.
But the real test will come afterwards. Brussels must monitor whether the reforms survive political pressure. Anti-corruption bodies must remain genuinely independent. Public procurement must be transparent. Prosecutorial safeguards must work in practice rather than merely on paper. And the judiciary must be capable of challenging the government when necessary.
That is where the European Parliament should concentrate its fire. The temptation will be to turn Monday’s debate into another referendum on Viktor Orbán. That would be yesterday’s argument. Orbán has gone. The more important question is whether Hungary’s new government has actually dismantled the machinery that generated the dispute.
There is a wider lesson here for the European Union.
Conditionality can only work if Brussels is prepared both to withhold money when standards are breached and to release it when standards are met. Anything else undermines the credibility of the entire system.
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