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 High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) is investigating the ERC deputy in the Parliament and former Interior Minister Joan Ignasi Elena and the former ICV coordinator Joan Herrera as necessary accomplices in an alleged crime of administrative misconduct for which the former mayor of Altafulla (Tarragona) and deputy in the Congress for Sumar, Félix Alonso Cantorné, is being investigated in the Supreme Court.
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.
Russia has decided to allow its main financial institutions to arm themselves with anti-aircraft defenses so that they can shoot down Ukrainian drones that attack them. This measure, included in a new law approved by the Duma (Lower House), is one more of those previously taken to try to stop the incursions of unmanned aircraft into Russian territory, which are becoming increasingly frequent.
Israel momentarily looks away from Iran, stuck in an agreement that has not been reached with the United States, and refocuses on its two main nearby fronts: Gaza and Lebanon.
With the Spotify Camp Nou as a backdrop and backed by the 38 trophies she has lifted in her 14 years as a blaugrana, Alexia Putellas said goodbye. “Yesterday I felt a huge emptiness, my heart hurt, and today I am full of love,” said the eternal culé captain, who tried to hold back her emotion.
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.
One more year, Catalan universities have a majority presence within the top ten best Spanish campuses in the ranking carried out annually by the CYD Foundation, which this year reaches its 13th edition. Thus, up to seven centers appear on that list: the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) – which shares second place along with Carlos III of Madrid -, Pompeu Fabra (3rd position), Ramon Llull (5th), Internacional de Catalunya (6th), Universitat de Barcelona (7th), Politècnica de Catalunya (8th) and Rovira i Virgili (10th). Compared to the previous year, two Catalan universities – Internacional de Catalunya and Politècnica – have joined this top ten, raising the total number from 5 to 7.
The unions and the Conselleria d’Educació have also not reached a preliminary agreement today to end the teachers’ strike, after the sixth meeting and ten days of strike, the fourth in all the centers of Catalunya. The Govern has conveyed to the teachers’ representatives that it needs more time to finish evaluating the economic proposal and has asked them to continue working tomorrow.