The shock of energy prices due to the Iranian conflict is beginning to claim its first victims. A report from Caixabank Research warns that the manufacturing industry risks weakening its growth, even sinking into stagnation. The intensity of energy consumption as well as dependence on foreign trade cause this sector to be the most sensitive to the international situation.
Jonathan Andic’s defense will file the appeal against the detention order for an alleged homicide crime, which Magistrate Raquel Nieto signed exactly one week ago for the death of Isak Andic, before Thursday. Lawyer Cristóbal Martell started working on the document today and has until Thursday to submit it to court number 5 of Martorell, but addressed to the Barcelona Court, responsible for resolving it.
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…
