Barajas airport has ceased to be a nightlife for homeless people. Since Thursday, Aena prevents the night in T4, one of the points with the highest influx of travelers in Spain. The measure arrives at one of the most tourist boom moments and after the Madrid City Council enable a specific center for these people in the district of Barajas. The final closure at the airport has opened again the institutional disagreement between the Government and the Consistory of Madrid. In the week prior to political holidays, also a new crash of trains between Sol and Moncloa Aventura few days of truce.
To the statements of the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso against Pedro Sánchez’s plans to “privilege” Catalonia and “kidnap” funds to the Community of Madrid, the Consistory of the Capital has added against how to unilaterally manage the departure of the homeless people of the T-4.
The measure of the airport manager has revived the confrontation between the Government and Cibeles after some calm in the controversy due to the management of the situation.
The City Council has announced that it will abandon the weekly technical tables in which this thorny matter was discussed in the face of the “cruel decision” to prevent the night for the homeless. The Consistory urges the airport manager to take responsibility for these people while he accuses him of breaking his obligations.
On May 22, Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida announced the opening of a temporary center to accommodate those who lived in the terminal. Since then, the new center gives assistance service to people who are welcomed in the 130 places they have. The temporal measure provided by the Consistory was part of others that were being studied at the work tables between both institutions. Thursday’s decision broke the board because according to the Consistory, Aena did not communicate anything. The Almeida team has corroborated that from Cibeles they will continue with the assistance to the people received and with other measures regarding security guarantees.
With a forecast of almost 5,000 flights from Thursday until tomorrow by the Santiago Apostle bridge, the airport manager decided to veto the presence of the synthesch the day before the party and get ahead of August, a hot date in Barajas that last year received six million passengers that month.
The movements at the Madrid airport occur in the week in which the capital moves file in its digital advance. The city wants to become the headquarters of the future State Center for Cybersecurity Operations and for this, it has formalized its application through a letter from the Vicealcaldesa, Inma Sanz, to the Minister for Digital Transformation, Óscar López, who also aspires to dethrone Ayuso in the next autonomous elections.
The strategic position of Madrid, its powerful technological ecosystem and a high concentration of critical infrastructure, make the capital the ideal place to house this headquarters, as they recognize in Cibeles. This has been sent to the Pedro Sánchez Executive, adding to the arguments that Madrid already hosts specialized university campus, data centers, corporate headquarters with their own cyber -defense teams and state agencies.
The development in infrastructure and the transformation of Madrid also play in their favor and this week there has been another step in the new design of the city. The Consistory has approved the urbanization project of the surroundings of Santiago Bernabéu, the stadium that monitors the most visits and one of the most important foci of tourism attraction.
The operation, budgeted in 19 million euros that will assume the white club, will affect more than 54,000 square meters and seek to transform the area to turn it into a new pedestrian access axis, with green areas, rearrangement of traffic, expansion of sidewalks and bike lane.
The intervention will be extended along the Paseo de la Castellana, Father Damián and Rafael Salgado, and includes renewal of urban furniture, new lighting and redesign of the circulation.
The City Council defends that the action will give continuity to the regeneration process of the Chamartín district and will allow Bernabéu to integrate better into the urban fabric.
If the pulse has remained in the capital, the political battle has intensified this week between the community and the government. Ayuso accuses Sánchez’s Executive to invade regional and fiscal matters. He denounces an institutional “suffocation strategy” to Madrid Meanwhile, he says, privileges and prebendas are granted to Catalonia.
From Sol they have criticized the “interference” of the government in Madrid university policy, linking decisions such as blocking certain academic agreements with a political will to wear. The fiscal conflict has also resurrected: the community has denounced a delay of more than 1.3 million euros in deliveries on account of the State. An “ideological kidnapping of funds” have described it.
To this is added the tension generated by the statements of the spokesman for Podemos who called the president “murderer” for the management of residences during the pandemic. The purple formation has not retracted and Ayuso has responded hard: it has taken the spokesman for the formation to the courts and has accused to the left of maintaining a permanent campaign of discredit based on falsehoods.
The City Council accumulates one more friction. In this case, with the department of Minister Bustinduy. The Almeida team has described the list of consumer tourist floors as “fudge”. In the last plenary session of the course the delegate of Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, crossed out “fudge, useless and unusable” the relationship of irregular tourist use housing sent to the town hall. According to the delegate, the list includes 1,216 homes that “11 are not in Madrid, 119 are duplicated, 314 have been discharged and 10 had license.” The list sent to the City Council tries to “invent a measure”, the “sectarian law of state housing”, according to Carabante, to say that “the guilt is the adversary.”
The week in which we know that Madrid has been chosen as the best city in Europe and second in the world in nightlife, the Consistory increases the cultural and leisure offer for this summer.
According to a study by the “Time Out” magazine, the capital stands out for its diversity, security and cozy environment. The study reinforces the image of Madrid as an international destination for entertainment. And beyond their bars and discos, more than 20 million visitors attract every year also for their shows, gastronomy, concerts and cultural experiences. Only behind Las Vegas, Madrid can adapt the saying: “What happens in Madrid stays in Madrid.”