Economía

The package of measures adopted to address the Iran war continues to have an effect on containing prices. In the third month of the conflict, in May, inflation remained at the same level as in April, 3.2%, according to the preliminary data provided by the INE this morning. This containment is due to three factors: the aid package approved by the Government, still in effect; the fact that food prices have not risen, having moderated when they increased in May of last year; and the weight of renewables, which has allowed the containment of electricity prices.

Catalunya extends the age limit from 35 to 40 years to access the public loan program of up to 50,000 euros to finance the purchase of a home among young people. This was announced by the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, at an event in Barcelona this Friday. The change, effective since June 1, shows the difficulty young people have in accessing the real estate market, which forces them to postpone the purchase of their first home more and more. “We want to reach people who have a life project ahead, who have not had time to generate savings,” Illa stated.

The expert hired by the defense in the Andic case, Francisco Marco, from the Método 3 agency, has defended on El Món on Rac1 that the case against Jonathan Andic for the death of Isak Andic is flawed due to the insistence of a Mossos d’Esquadra agent in presenting evidence that Marco considers fabricated. Before Jordi Basté, he provided data that refutes the evidence made public so far: the footprint on the mountain, the manner of the fall, the relationship between Isak Andic and his son, or the loss of the phone in Quito.

On February 20, 2024, ten months before dying after falling on the Camí de les Feixades de Montserrat, Isak Andic stumbled in the lobby of the Mutua Universal Barcelona headquarters, on Tibidabo Avenue. That fall, stopped by the intervention of a second person, who prevented the founder of Mango from hitting the ground face first, was recorded by the entity’s security cameras.

The Donald Trump Administration is promoting the circulation of a new $250 bill featuring the image of the current U.S. president, according to The Washington Post. If so, it would be the first time since the 19th century that a living person appears on an official United States currency after it was prohibited in 1866.

Chargers that cause burns, toys with toxic chemicals for children, or even jewelry harmful to health. The European Commission imposed a fine of 200 million euros on the Chinese giant Temu this Thursday for critical failures in its security system when preventing the sale of illegal items to European consumers that can be potentially dangerous, with the intention that the platform increases its controls while it sweeps across the continent. Temu alone reached an average of 115 million monthly users in the community bloc last year.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to have an impact on the labor market in Barcelona. A study by the Mobile World Capital of Barcelona points out that junior job offers in the digital sector have fallen by 26% in two years, dropping from 1,448 to 1,058 listings between 2023 and 2025.

The requirements of Made in Europe are sky-high. The European Commission wants to shield the community satellite space for European companies and keep foreign competitors away in an attempt to promote the strategic autonomy of the bloc. And this means putting a brake on the giants of this sector such as Elon Musk’s Starlink or Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper: the Commission’s proposal is to reserve at least two-thirds of the European mobile satellite spectrum for European companies.

In difficult times like the current ones, the Economic and Social Council (CES) sends an optimistic message about the situation of the Spanish economy, which it diagnoses as a structural improvement, but warning that this improvement does not sufficiently reach the well-being of the citizens. On the way, there is a broken bridge. “That bridge that existed in the second half of the last century between growth and well-being has broken in many pillars,” said its president, Antón Costas, at the presentation of the Report on the Socioeconomic and Labor Situation of Spain 2025.

Lifetime donations soar to historic highs in Catalonia in a context of crisis in access to the real estate market, as a way to help family members. In 2025 they increased by 22%, with almost 23,000, ten points above the Spanish average. In the first quarter of 2026 this trend continues, with increases of 20% and 6,188 signed. “Today we talk about problems of access to housing, obtaining resources… With parents who have accumulated savings, the option of donation is increasingly present” as a solution, explains Raquel Iglesias, vice dean of the Col·legi Notarial de Catalunya.