“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.
“We are very calm,” assures Carlota Pi, co-founder and CEO of Holaluz. With her captivating smile, the businesswoman staunchly defends the company’s innocence regarding the Government’s disqualification file. Although the content is confidential, industry sources say it has been opened due to possible non-payments by Holaluz to energy distributors (Iberdrola, Endesa, Naturgy), who demand energy retailers to pay “tolls” for using their networks.
It has been a year and two months since the electric system operator, Red Eléctrica (REE), decided to implement what it has called a “reinforced operation” to cover the risk of a repeat of the blackout on April 28, 2025.
The European Union aims to be a smoke-free generation by 2040. To achieve this, Ursula von der Leyen’s government considers that taxes play a key role. They rely on a study that estimates a 40% impact of cigarette taxes on reducing tobacco consumption. However, the European Parliament does not yet have a position that allows progress on a tax increase that has not been updated since 2011.
The Generalitat was forced to dismantle the Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) a year ago following yet another scandal in the guardianship of minors and due to million-euro irregularities in management. The case of a 12-year-old girl under guardianship by the…
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office has entered the scene in the case of the former Direcció General d’Atenció a la Infància i l’Adolescència (known as Dgaia, now renamed as Dgppia). According to information obtained by La Vanguardia, this specialized body of the Public Prosecutor’s Office will be the one to determine, in the first instance, whether any breach occurred in the payment of aid to young people formerly under guardianship by the Generalitat.
I was 18 when I first read The Odyssey along with The Iliad. I remember perfectly how much I enjoyed this journey full of traps and a sense of survival. What I felt with the ultimate trolling of the Cyclops: Nobody; the party of pig-men with the witch Circe that reminded me…
Deceiving more than 60,000 people by promising them paradise would seem impossible if we had not seen it in Ceuta. Tens of thousands of young people believed what the networks said and decided to seek that better life that Morocco does not give them. First conclusion of the avalanche of…
