Gerard Escaich Folch

Barcelona

Catalan News Head at Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN)

📝Head and reporter - @catalannews by @agenciaacn Previously: 📺 Assignment Editor & Journalist - @euronews 🎙Journalist - @capitalemporda [email protected]

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Articles

Scraping the clouds: New contender among Barcelona's tallest buildings

1 week ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Barcelona will soon have a new skyline, marking a historic feat as the city's landscape changes forever. The construction of the unfinished Sagrada Família Basilica, by architect Antoni Gaudí, is quickly reaching new heights, with the Tower of Jesus Christ surpassing the 143.5-meter mark in early April. Once fully finished, the temple will be 172.5 meters tall, becoming Barcelona's tallest building.
Story of longest-serving Catalan president's 'fall to hell' arrives in cinemas

1 week ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Anybody following Catalan politics in 2014 was left stunned in July of that year when the former Catalan president, Jordi Pujol, who had held office for 23 years, confessed to having a family fortune in an Andorran bank account. The news came after a report published by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Over a decade later, Catalan actor Josep Maria Pou portrays Pujol in the new movie 'Parenostre', which follows the tribulations of Pujol in the hours before his 545-word written confession.
Story of longest-serving Catalan president's fall 'to hell' arrives in cinemas

1 week ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Anybody following Catalan politics in 2014 was left stunned in July of that year when the former Catalan president, Jordi Pujol, who had held office for 23 years, confessed to having a family fortune in an Andorran bank account. The news came after a report published by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Over a decade later, Catalan actor Josep Maria Pou portrays Pujol in the new movie 'Parenostre', which follows the tribulations of Pujol in the hours before his 545-word written confession.
Swiss writer Joël Dicker's latest novel among most sold books before Sant Jordi

2 weeks ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Catalonia's day of love and books, Sant Jordi, is just a couple of weeks away. At the moment, Catalan author Xavier Bosch, Spanish author Javier Cercas, and Swiss writer Joël Dicker's latest novels are the most sold.
Catalan woman freed from Omani prison embraces 'second chance in life'

3 weeks ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Fátima Ofkir, the Catalan woman released after seven years in prison in Oman, gave her first press conference since being freed in Barcelona on Tuesday morning. She said that she will not "throw away this second chance in life" in front of dozens of journalists. Ofkir, from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, was arrested in 2018, aged 18, and was serving a life sentence for drug trafficking. She landed at Barcelona airport on Sunday morning to the excitement of her family and friends.
Walking a robot dog around Barcelona to 'help society' spreading assistive technology

4 weeks ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

'La patita.' Sit. Good boy! Dozens of passersby on Tuesday morning in Barcelona stopped in front of the Catalan News' headquarters for a few minutes to meet Khlipper. It is not a normal dog, but rather a unique and not-very usual to see down the streets as it is a robot dog. "The idea of the Khlipper project is to make a robot dog that can help people and society," Enric Lucea, owner of the robot dog and promoter of the project, told Catalan News.
Golden Visas 'make life easier,' says real estate agency as interest grows amid scheme's last days

1 month ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

The housing crisis across Spain pushed PM Pedro Sánchez to announce the end of the Golden Visa scheme on April 3, 2024.
Barcelona theater Beckett takes Catalan language play to Slovenia

1 month ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

'Casa Calores' show part of DoSEL European theater scheme promoting plays written in minority languagesThe Barcelona Sala Beckett theater will perform the 'Casa Calores' play in Catalan language in Slovenia on April 1. Playwright Pere Riera's show will be performed in Kranj as part of the Drama of Smaller European Languages (DoSEL), a European theater scheme promoting plays written in minority languages, including Catalan, Slovenian, Maltese, Estonian, and Bulgarian among others.
Startups tackle security, language, and maritime robots at MWC in Barcelona

1 month ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Samsung, Huawei, and Nokia are some of the big names at the 2025 edition of the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona this week. However, WardUS, Bamboleo Talk, and Seabots are also present. 4YFN, the acronym for Four Years From Now, is the area at the MWC exhibition focused on startups. Occupying both sections of Hall 8, almost 900 different companies showcase their products.
Apple co-founder warns of technocrats going into politics in speech in Barcelona

1 month ago | catalannews.com | Gerard Escaich Folch

Steve Wozniak believes "skills required in politics are very different to technology companies"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak warned of major technocrats going into politics during a speech at Barcelona's Talent Arena developers trade fair on Tuesday. "I think that the skills required in politics are very different to those skills needed in technology companies," Wozniak, a 74-year-old American entrepreneur and electrical engineer, said to hundreds of attendees at the fair.