Artigas

Some 85% of the technical wording in the bill already has been agreed on, Carme Artigas, AI and digitalization minister for Spain, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said at a press briefing Tuesday in Brussels.

“The message that a prestigious university like this sends is that contracts between parties do not have to be fulfilled,” Artigas wrote.

Basket Zaragoza’s general manager, Jose Artigas, wrote in an email to The Times that the 7-foot-3 Mara remained under contract with the team, intimating that he should not be allowed to play elsewhere.

Artigas also said Mara has had an agent since he was 15 years old and that the agent advised Mara and his family before they signed their contract with Basket Zaragoza.

Jose Artigas said the team is seeking 560,000 Euros — roughly $608,000 in U.S. currency — as an exit fee after Zaragoza failed to show up for a scheduled medical examination with the team.