Headlines of the Day

According to Aena, the "significant" increase in the activity of the  airport has been a consequence of the decision. The General Deputy of Álava, Ramiro González, has assured the media that the decision has been repeated.

The Basque Government estimates that there will be 540,000 journeys  in the next few days on the roads of the Basque Autonomous Community. 

The measure will be maintained in Special Risk and Surveillance Areas: 12 municipalities in Navarre will continue to be confined by poultry farms and six in the ACV.

Seven people have been taken to hospital this afternoon as a result of a fire in a house in Lodosa. A 77-year-old woman has been evacuated with severe burns by helicopter  to the University Hospital of Navarre. The rest suffer minor injuries from smoke inhalation.

Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen has stressed that special attention needs to be paid to the transport sector and has proposed a decalogue of activities to address the energy crisis.

On the one hand, the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Provincial Council of Álava and the Basque Government have held the event alongside the sculpture 'Isilasunean Oihuka', and on the other hand, the left-wing parties — EH Bildu, Podemos Euskadi, Ezker Anitza-IU, Berdeak and Suma Movement — have organized another tribute.

The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa has organized a series of activities in four localities for the 18th of April so that citizens who are not going to Seville can live the atmosphere of the final.

"We will do what belongs to an organization: we will hold an evaluation meeting with those responsible for the Korrika, as we usually do at any event in which the government is part," explained First Vice-President Ibone Bengoetxea. 

The launch took place from the Vandenberg Space Center in California, USA, at 13:07 GMT in the Basque Country.

Ibone  Bengoetxea , First Vice-President and Counsellor for Culture and Linguistic Policy of the Basque Government, has requested technical analysis of the possibilities oftransferring the Guernica painting to the Basque Country, in an interview with the "Egun on Euskadi" programme.

The union has gone from being the third force to being the first force, with 1732 votes and 20 delegates. "Euspel will not change because he is the first force," added Joseba Saralegi, representative of Euspel. 

A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.

According to Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, he was primarily responsible for the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

The 7,078 Ertzainas with voting rights must elect 60 representatives: 17 in Álava, 23 in Bizkaia and 20 in Gipuzkoa. 

Municipal officials have said that a report prepared by Emakunde  states that the Equality Plan must address this issue "because of the imbalances in participation".

The Socialist spokesman in the Lower House, Patxi López, has accused the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, of making "dirty use" of the victims of ETA. 

The works council held a meeting this morning with representatives of the Labour Inspectorate of the Basque Government in Vitoria-Gasteiz, and during the meeting dozens of workers protested on the doorstep. 

Starting at noon, a front will enter and rain, and maximum temperatures will drop to around 11-14 degrees.