Until a few years ago, it was very common for Menorcan families to take the plane or boat to go to Palma or Barcelona to buy clothes. The large chains and franchises had not yet landed on the island and it was more economical to travel to buy clothes on the Peninsula or on the neighboring island than to buy them directly from small shops in Menorca.

The racism and the national priority criterion of Vox have played a trick on the Consell de Mallorca, which has approved the second package of social measures to mitigate the effects of the war in Iran. The requirement to prove five years of continuous residence in Mallorca demanded by the far-right has generated a paradox: if you are from Minorca, Ibiza, or Formentera and have been living in Mallorca for less than five years, you are not entitled to receive any aid from the island institution, no matter how vulnerable your situation; on the other hand, if you are an immigrant who has exceeded five years of residence, you can receive it. In summary: the criterion imposed by Vox will exclude people whom the far-right considers 'nationals' and will help others against whom Vox rails daily in the institutions of the Islands. The question at this point is: had Vox calculated the impact of this demand?

Tica Font (Vall d’Uixó, 1956) is the president and researcher at the Delàs Centre for Peace Studies. A graduate in Physics from the University of València, she has been the director of the Catalan International Institute for Peace and president of the Catalan Federation of NGOs for Peace. She is an expert in defense economics, arms trade, defense budgets, and the military industry. Font is one of the expert voices at the II Peace Conference organized by the Mallorca per la Pau platform and makes it clear that wars are a pretext for doing business.

The Consell de Mallorca will finally require a minimum of five years of legal residence to be eligible for social aid included in the package intended to alleviate the economic effects derived from the war in Iran. Initially, the island institution had planned to set this requirement at three years.

The Mallorca per la Pau platform has organized the second edition of the Peace Conference, which will take place on April 24 and 25, with "a program open to the public and focused on the culture of peace, dialogue, and collective reflection," the entity reported in a statement. "In a geopolitical context marked by war, militarization, and the escalation of international conflicts – with figures like Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as examples of an increasingly polarized global scenario, marked by the normalization of conflict as a political tool – these conferences aim to reaffirm the need to clearly advocate for peace, disarmament, and the defense of life," the note adds.

Women have played a key role in the history of antimilitarism. When men were obliged to go to war, mothers, wives, and sisters did not hesitate to mobilize to save their loved ones from certain death. It was during the Modern Age (15th-18th centuries) that the armies of European states became permanent and increasingly large. At that time, the Hispanic monarchy, following what was done in the rest of the continent, had three ways of supplying its troops: with mercenaries (professionals who fought in exchange for pay), with forced levies (generally from marginalized people, prisoners, and vagrants), and with the quintas.

Prices in the Balearic Islands have risen by 3.6% in March compared to the same month last year due to the war in the Middle East and the increase in fuel costs, according to data from the INE published this Tuesday.

The Consell de Mallorca approved this Thursday in plenary session the first phase of the Mallorca Protege plan, which foresees allocating 12.6 million euros from reserves to cover part of the aid to mitigate the effects of the war in Iran and the Middle East. The measure was approved with the 20 favorable votes of PP, Vox, and El PI, while PSIB and MÉS per Mallorca, with 13 representatives, abstained.

When Israel and the US began the Iran war, last February 28, the whole world shuddered, but in Mallorca the shiver had a particular tone: “Will this affect the tourist season?”, was the question that the businessmen of the tourist sector and their servants, also known as elected rulers, were anxiously asking themselves. And many ordinary citizens, pure and simple taxpayers, were asking themselves the same question, because they have internalized an ancestral fear similar to that of the small Gallic village in the Asterix comics. Indeed, if those warriors of the Gallic forests lived in fear that one day the sky would not fall on their heads, many Majorcans today anxiously think about the possibility that one day tourists will stop coming. They have assimilated the idea that tourism is their source of sustenance (“tourism feeds us,” they repeat, like a responsorial psalm) and that dedicating themselves to economic activities other than tourism is equivalent to a return to a life of scarcity and deprivation. (Due to age, most have not experienced scarcity or deprivation, but within the repertoire of prejudices they have incorporated, it also includes intense aporophobia).Since then, the Iran war has continued its course, becoming more uncertain and alarming each day, and yet, tourists have come. With Easter, the tourist season properly begins: this year we can say, therefore, that the season runs from March 31 to October 31. That's seven full months, in contrast to the three months that the traditional summer season lasted (which was limited to the two strict months during which people usually took vacations, July and August, with the addition of the second fortnight of June to open and the first of September to close). Now it lasts more than double, and the long-standing objective is to make the tourist season last twelve months. Indeed, before we learned to say ‘de-seasonalization’’ without stumbling, reality has made it clear that it was a mirage: we will not manage to distribute tourists better across the different seasons of the year, in order to avoid overcrowding, but rather we will have overcrowding all year round. De-seasonalization was another self-deception (in this case, of progressive origin) on par with ‘cultural tourism’: by promoting this, we have not obtained tourists who come to participate in our reading clubs and buy season tickets for the Principal Theatre and the Manacor Auditorium, but rather tourists who visit prefabricated exhibitions, susceptible of being set up and visited in interchangeable destinations: be it Malaga (the model to be followed by our current rulers) or Palma, for buyers of the holiday package for lovers of cultural and gastronomic experiences.When Iran began to fire its long-range missiles, a local media outlet published a report trying to warn that these rockets have enough power for one of them to fall on Mallorca. And much worse, it could fall in the middle of the tourist season. There is a not very subtle (but well-rooted form of self-hatred), which consists of believing that we are too small to be affected by what happens in the world, or that our lamentable condition as a mature tourist destination makes us sweet and harmless. Neither is true: Mallorca, although a significant number of Majorcans find it hard to believe, is part of this convulsive, violent and unpredictable world that appears in the news. It is not only part of it, but it is a strategic point in the middle of the Mediterranean. And its tourist season is too.

The reduction of VAT from 21% to 10% on electricity and fuel announced a week ago by President Pedro Sánchez to compensate 20 million households and three million businesses in Spain with 5,000 million euros has not satisfied a large part of the economic agents in the Islands. Apart from the uncertain effect that international tension will have this season on tourist activity, the war conflict in the Middle East has hit freight transport, construction, agriculture, the self-employed, and other strategic sectors of the Balearic Islands hard.

The government will approve a decree-law before Easter with tax cuts and direct aid to sectors affected by price increases resulting from the war in Iran, including deductions for variable-rate mortgages. These measures will complement thesocial safety net announced by the Spanish government last FridayThese measures include VAT reductions on fuel and an extension of rental contracts. The government wants to implement them with the approval of all parties, and for this reason, the First Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance, Antoni Costa, has convened them this Wednesday.

The package of measures approved by the Spanish government to address the effects of the Iran-Contra conflict will have an impact of over 70 million euros on the Balearic Islands. This was confirmed on Monday in Palma by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Rosario Sánchez, after meeting with social and economic stakeholders. According to her, the set of measures—valued at 5 billion euros and comprising some eighty initiatives—will primarily benefit the Islands through tax reductions on electricity and subsidies of 20 cents per liter of fuel for industries such as transportation. Furthermore, the extension of the electricity and heating subsidies, as well as the extension of rental contracts for up to two years, are expected to benefit approximately 24,000 homes in the archipelago. The Government Delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has urged the regional government to approve additional measures to protect families and businesses "as soon as possible." He also called for the support of the People's Party (PP) and Vox in Congress to validate the anti-crisis decrees, which include both tax breaks and a temporary freeze on rents.

The Balearic agricultural sector has conveyed its concern to the Government regarding the rise in fuel prices due to the Iran-Contra conflict. According to an internal calculation, product prices will increase in approximately one month if they do not receive aid, representatives of the farmers informed the Vice President of the Government, Antoni Costa, this Wednesday. This was explained by Jerónima Bonafé, representative of the Balearic Agri-food Cooperatives, after the meeting, as reported by Europa Press. Bonafé emphasized that fuel prices have increased by more than 60% in less than a month, and also explained that the Government has committed to providing aid to the sector to mitigate the price increases. However, the Government wants to wait to coordinate these measures with the initiatives that the Spanish Executive will announce on Friday after the Council of Ministers meeting.

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Mojtaba Khamenei, son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and identified as new head of the Islamic Republic of IranHe reportedly owns a luxury resort in Camp de Mar, Mallorca. This is according to an investigation by Bloomberg, quoted by the newspaper The CountryThe report suggests the property in question is the Steigenberger Hotel & Resort Camp de Mar, and that the assets of Iran's new Supreme Leader extend across several European countries. According to this investigation, Khamenei amassed a fortune of hundreds of millions of euros through a network of investments and real estate holdings managed by intermediaries. These assets reportedly include a golf resort in Mallorca, a hotel in the Austrian Alps, and numerous properties in London.