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.
New chapter in the shareholder restructuring of Naturgy. The Luxembourg-based fund CVC has completed this Tuesday the exit from the gas company’s capital and will put its 13.8% stake in the company up for sale. The operation, which has been communicated to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) through a statement this afternoon, will be carried out through an accelerated placement.
In Catalonia, 49.1% of foreign workers with higher education are overqualified, which means more than 142,000 people working below their educational level. This is shown in the study Bones pràctiques en integració laboral de les persones migrades, presented this Tuesday by the CTESC. Among those who arrive in the country having completed post-compulsory studies, this percentage is 38.5%.
The Andic family has shown strong support this Tuesday for the decision of the eldest son of the family, Jonathan Andic, to temporarily leave the vice presidency of the textile empire Mango to focus on defending himself against the homicide charge against him. The case investigates the death of the group’s founder, Isak Andic, in a fall during a walk with his son in Montserrat in December 2024.
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the draft Organic Law for the proper use and governance of artificial intelligence (AI), which adapts Spanish legislation to the European Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AI Act), in force since August 2024, and which regulates the rules that AI tools must comply with in Spain and contemplates fines that can reach up to 35 million euros or 7% of the annual turnover of the sanctioned party.
The Council of Ministers has approved a royal decree that reforms access to flexible retirement with three significant changes that will be applied within three months. This type of retirement allows for combining the pension with a certain degree of work activity, and it is one of the incentives used by the Ministry of Inclusion and Social Security to extend the working life of employees. Incentives that are now increased.
The average pension of retirees under the general scheme amounts to 1,731.70 euros in May, according to data published this Tuesday by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migrations. Since the beginning of the year, with the adjustment for inflation, the figure has remained above the threshold of 1,700 euros. The figure is much higher than that of workers from the self-employed scheme, who have an average of 1,060 euros per month.