San Sebastian

Representatives of the Solidarity Dinners Platform (KAS) and the Donostia City Council, including Mayor Jon Insausti, have been meeting for almost two hours. Ixiar Gonzalez of KAS has explained that until the alternative  is in place, the mayor has been asked to allow solidarity street dinners, but the answer has been no. "

Eleven years after Oskorri's farewell, Natxo de Felipe returns to the stage with a new album: "Abandonados". The songs that remained unpublished with the mythical band have been recovered in this project, which he will present live on August 20 at the Arantzazu Shrine as part of the programming of the San Sebastian Musical Fortnight.

In two words, a summary of what will be news of the Present today.

The Street Solidarity Dinners (KAS) platform, which organizes supportive dinners for people on the street in Donostia-San Sebastián, on Wednesday denounced the "criminalizing attitude" of the City Council, whose mayor, Jon Insausti (PNV), has banned this activity on the grounds that it creates "problems of coexistence" and "increases crime."

With regard to the controversy aroused by the ban on supportive dinners, the mayor of San Sebastián, Jon Insausti, explained on Wednesday that this initiative needs an administrative response that must be aimed at promoting the social and employment integration of people and stressed that the surrounding municipalities will also take these measures sooner or later.

Mayor Jon Insausti said the main goal is for those visiting the city "to help finance public services, infrastructure, urban spaces, security and other activities to maintain a balance between visits and the quality of life of donostiarras."

The new feature films of these filmmakers will compete for the Golden Shell of the San Sebastian Festival alongside the latest works by Nicole Garcia, Maha Harada, Hans Petter Moland and Benjamin Naishtat.

Street Solidarity Dinners in San Sebastian have denounced that more than 300 people will be left without an alternative to dinner.

Basque farmers have concentrated this Friday in front of the delegation of the Basque Government in Donostia-San Sebastián to denounce the situation in the meat sector. They have also criticised the lack of will of the Basque Government and the Food, Rural Development, Agriculture and Fisheries Adviser, Amaia Barredo, to "support and maintain the Basque model of meat production that has existed so far".

In a clash between supporters of the Spanish team, the Ertzaintza had to intervene, and four people were injured in that exchange. 

The Alavés group En Tol Sarmiento opened the 61st edition of the San Sebastian Jazz Festival last night with live images of the concert on a facade of the Kursaal.

Inés Moreno and Lurdes Auzmendi, sister and partner of Eduardo Moreno Bergaretxe, 'Pertur', member of the political-military ETA en 50 years after his disappearance, have claimed his memory and called for the truth to be revealed to clarify the pending case.

This Wednesday the free and multitudinary concerts will begin at the Keler Space, where the well-known Alavese band will perform at 11.30 p.m., preceded by the music of the American artist LP. In the coming days, Danielle Nicole, Kokoshca, Emma-Jean Thackray, Nøgen and HOFE, among others, will take the stage of the Zurriola.

The Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats today made official its candidacies for the capitals for the municipal elections to be held in May next year at an event in Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa held an institutional event on Friday in the gardens of the Palace of Aiete, the headquarters of the House of Human Rights.

The Ertzaintza has also initiated proceedings against four other minors for alleged insults to the victim.

The final between Spain and Argentina will be held on Sunday at 9 p.m. in New York.

Eight fishermen and a women grill who have done a great deal of sacrificing work since they were young have today been mercifully honoured in San Sebastian. 310 people who have worked at sea in Gipuzkoa have already retired and distributed their prizes on behalf of all of them.