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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accompanied by the Third Vice President, Sara Aagesen, the President of the Junta of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla, and the main authorities of the area, accompanied this Thursday Maarten Wetselaar, CEO of Moeve, and the rest of the partner companies at the event presenting what can be considered the materialization of green hydrogen in Spain. An event in which the Vice President of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera, also participated remotely.

A consultant joke. One of them comes home and says to their partner: “After several years prescribing to clients how to reduce costs through AI, my job has successfully concluded. They have reduced costs through AI and have fired me.” Without going to these extremes or dark humor, this is the premonition hovering around one of the businesses that for decades has supplied companies with ideas and talent. Consulting firms have gone from being the prescribers of the technological revolution to finding that AI is turning their own business upside down. Major clients have started to tighten the screws and demand a share of the productivity that the new tools provide, capable of getting much more work done in less time. The sector does not talk about crisis, but about reinvention.

Five years of analysis constitute a sufficiently long period of time to identify trends, confirm changes, and observe how a profession evolves. With this purpose, the Advisory Barometer, by Wolters Kluwer, a leading company in the development of software solutions, information, and services for professional firms and companies, reaches its fifth edition with a long-term perspective that has established it as the main observatory of the sector’s reality.

Europe needs more shared infrastructure, more scale, and more strategic vision if it wants to remain a relevant player in the global digital economy. Connectivity, network resilience, and investment capacity in telecommunications are no longer just technical issues: they are part of industrial competitiveness and its autonomy in increasingly critical sectors.

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Mediapro maintains its commitment to Barcelona after opening a new chapter with Sergio Oslé and Carlos Núñez at the helm of the company. Despite leading the business from Madrid, the group’s registered and main office will remain in the Catalan capital. In Barcelona, 1,100 people work, out of a total of 5,000, and the goal is to continue driving the business from the city where it was born more than 30 years ago.

Casa Santiveri has avoided bankruptcy by refinancing its debt with the banks. The historic Catalan company, specialized in dietetic and nutrition products, has managed to judicially approve a restructuring plan for its financial liabilities, which exceed 11 million euros.

The president of Telefónica, Marc Murtra, considers it “extraordinarily dangerous” for Europe to depend on critical technologies developed outside the continent. “It creates extreme fragility,” he has warned. This dependence on other countries becomes evident in cases of cyberattacks or hybrid attacks, such as the one that occurred this week at Leipzig airport in Germany. The top executive of the telecommunications operator made a plea in favor of the defense and rearmament of the region during a colloquium organized by the employers’ association Foment del Treball this Friday.

The large Spanish defense industry has sealed peace after a year and a half of business and even personal disagreements. It is the picture of unity in a period of special importance for the sector. The four companies grouped in the Tess Defence consortium, Indra, Escribano, Santa Bárbara Sistemas (a subsidiary of General Dynamics), and Sapa, certified this Tuesday that the joint venture is operating at full capacity with the aim of increasing industrial capabilities and that it needs a new boost. The business project, responsible for manufacturing the 8×8 Dragón armored vehicle, is about to complete the delivery of the one hundredth vehicle to the Armed Forces. It will do so this month, which will be a milestone that a few months ago seemed distant.

Volkswagen is still immersed in a crisis that requires the deployment of profound measures. The CEO of the VW Group, Oliver Blume, insisted this Tuesday in Wolfsburg, in his first address to the workers since the layoff plans became known, that the German giant is experiencing a moment of weakness, reiterating his message from recent weeks in which he has even spoken of a “critical” situation.