Tourism once again represents a strong boost for the Spanish economy, and the spending figures of international tourists prove it. Until June, foreign visitors have left 63.8 billion euros in the country, which is 7% more than in the first half of 2025, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) published this Monday.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has taken a further step in his criticisms of Pedro Sánchez over the entry of 50,000 immigrants from the Maghreb country into Ceuta. In this regard, the leader of the PP has reproached the Prime Minister for not having asked Morocco for explanations about the “premeditated occupation” and “the breach of Spain’s territorial integrity.”
The Ministry of the Interior of Morocco shook off any responsibility on Sunday night for the massive entry of migrants last week in Ceuta through the Tarajal breakwater and attributed the crisis to a combination of factors: both to the mafias that traffic in people and to the misinformation on social networks following a Supreme Court ruling from early July.
Bill Galbraith and George Ciampa could never have imagined that the scene of that hell they experienced in June 1944 would be designated, 82 years later, as a World Heritage site. UNESCO had not even been founded yet.
It seemed impossible, and many still have doubts, that an idea as simple as peace would be part of the upcoming legislative elections in Russia on September 20. But supporters of ending the war in Ukraine will have their chance, even if only to express it secretly at the polls and in the end the more than predictable result does not change. No one doubts that the Kremlin party, United Russia, will win comfortably again, despite its popularity crisis.
A high-profile party marked the end of Vinicius Júnior’s vacation, who is expected in Valdebebas (he landed yesterday at Barajas) with open arms after a disappointing World Cup both personally and collectively. Right now, he is the footballer who attracts all the attention due to a renewal that has been delayed over time amid false promises that “everything was going to be fixed”; although, for the moment, with only 11 months left on his contract and becoming a free agent, he remains in limbo. Arsenal is lurking, and from England, they indicate that the option is increasingly solid. On Saturday, Mikel Arteta was asked after the 1-4 against Girona, and his response added more fuel to the fire. “We are very active, trying to improve and evolve the team. We are not going to stand idly by and we are very ambitious about what we want to achieve, we already see our rivals,” he commented. When directly questioned about the Brazilian, he grimaced half-jokingly and left quickly.
Preseason friendly matches are a misleading projection of the future. Sometimes you stumble upon discoveries like Bojan (in 2007, in that match against Egyptian Al-Ahly), but often you have to surrender to the evidence that many preseason football loves are,…
“I feel Flick’s trust and I want to stay in Barça’s first team,” said Xavi Espart yesterday, a versatile right-back of 19 years who can also play as a defensive midfielder, a position with which, for example, he won the U-19 European Championship with Spain. “Being here is a great opportunity to earn a place in the first team,” agreed Álvaro Cortés, a 21-year-old center-back, beside him.
Now 20 years ago, during a heatwave, dry vegetation due to lack of rain, and a tramontana wind that lasted for two weeks, nearly 2,000 hectares burned in the Empordà in a series of nine fires between August 3 and 7. Most were caused by human activity, as are 90% of the fires recorded in Catalonia. The largest of that 2006 episode, the one that started in Ventalló and burned about a thousand hectares across several municipalities between Alt and Baix Empordà, according to data from the Agents Rurals, was intentional. There were no personal injuries, but there was material damage, and it sparked a debate about improving forest management, restoring the mosaic landscape, and protecting residential areas. These proposals are repeated every time there is a major fire, like the one in early July that burned about 2,200 hectares in the Gavarres massif and has so far become the most significant this summer in Catalonia.
Real estate companies are heading off on vacation this summer satisfied after having definitively closed their accounts for the first half of the year. Overall, the major listed companies on the Continuous Market comfortably exceed 500 million euros in profits. Between January and June 2026, data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) have had greater weight than ever in the figures presented, as companies that use them pay rents to these businesses, with special relevance to the two in the Ibex 35: Merlin Properties and Colonial SFL. In the case of the former, AI plays an essential role in the data centers it owns, while Colonial SFL has seen a notable increase in the weight of companies working in this area for its revenue.