Economía

The jet fuel crisis caused by the war in the Middle East continues to take its toll on the airline industry. This time, the impact reaches Barcelona airport, which temporarily loses a route to Tangier due to the rising price of fuel. This is the connection that Royal Air Maroc operated until now from El Prat and which transported 83,580 people between January and April, 0.5% of the total passengers, according to Aena data.

Since Friedrich Merz took office as chancellor, it seemed that Germany’s extreme and chronic aversion to debt was softening. First, in 2025, with the historic change in the Constitution relaxing the debt prohibition pushed by the current chancellor before he had even taken office; and later with the announcement of the huge investment of 780 billion euros in defense over five years. However, it now appears that either the transformation is not so radical or it only applies domestically and not in the European Union, where the German “Nein,” so often repeated during the financial crisis, is back.

The Vatican intends to give a high socioeconomic content to the upcoming visit of Leo XIV to Spain, between June 6 and 12. Its representatives in Spain, led by José Cobo, cardinal, archbishop of Madrid and vice president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference,…

It was the year 2017. Donald Trump had recently moved into the White House. Seen through today’s eyes, he was a more moderate Trump than the current one. But even then Edmund Phelps (1933, Illinois), Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006, sensed that the magnate was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

In Spain, there are around 450 startups that are developing in one way or another applications or infrastructure related to artificial intelligence (AI). Multiverse Computing, Cala AI, Openchip, and Biorce are four examples leading the sector.

The United States and China are winning the artificial intelligence game. However, Europe and Spain, in particular, are also playing their role in this great digital revolution.

Josep Sánchez Llibre (Vilassar de Mar, 1949) begins his third term at the head of the employers’ association Foment del Treball focused on reducing taxation, absenteeism, and improving investment in infrastructure. And he does so just as a harsh critique by a group of prestigious economists about the economic development model of Catalonia and, specifically, the type of companies and employment created in recent years has been published. The president of Foment disputes their diagnosis.

The open case against Jonathan Andic for the death of his father, Isak Andic, could have significant financial consequences in the hypothetical event that the eldest son of the deceased businessman is convicted. The main one, the loss of the inheritance received, one third…

The judge of Martorell Raquel Tierno Galván listed in the detention order of Jonathan Andic a “series of clues” that made him a suspect in the death of his father, Isak Andic, on December 14, 2024. Among these circumstantial evidences, the magistrate mentioned the disappearance “under strange circumstances” of the iPhone 14 that the accused was carrying the day his father fell into the void in Montserrat. The phone change took place on March 26, after Jonathan warned via a WhatsApp from his computer to his secretary at Mango that his mobile had been stolen. He requested a new one, an iPhone 16 Pro, which he activated as soon as he landed.

The talks for a merger between Puig and Estée Lauder ended today without an agreement between the two parties, according to a statement sent to the CNMV (National Securities Market Commission) tonight. Puig’s CEO José Manuel Albesa stated in a statement that “we appreciate the fruitful conversations held with The Estée Lauder Companies.”