The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided, as planned, to keep the cost of money with the deposit interest rate at 2%, for the sixth consecutive time since June 2025. The entity does not consider that the current economic disturbances, with a resurgence of inflation due to the energy crisis following the Iran war, justify at this time implementing a more restrictive monetary policy.
A woman and her two minor children have died this Wednesday by drowning in the reservoir of the Navarrese town of Roncal, a bathing area, in the Esca river.
Tubos Reunidos is now the third investigated company that was rescued in 2021 during the pandemic by the State Society of Industrial Participations (SEPI), as were Plus Ultra and Air Europa. In this case, it has been by order of the judge of the Audiencia Nacional, Santiago Pedraz, who yesterday ordered the search of its headquarters by the central operational unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard.
If confirmed, I will work with the United States Department of the Treasury and the Governments of Andorra and Spain to ensure that actions are carried out in a fair, transparent, and consistent manner.” The author of these words is Benjamin Leon, the new United States ambassador to Spain and Andorra, and the translation of the diplomatic language is that his country is upset with the way the authorities of both countries acted in 2015 to liquidate Banca Privada d’Andorra (BPA) and that in his new post he will investigate what exactly happened.
The court judging the Kitchen case, the alleged parapolice operation to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas between 2013 and 2015, finished yesterday hearing the recordings submitted as evidence in the case and today will begin to listen to the ten accused, including former Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and former Secretary of State for Security Francisco Martínez. The Prosecutor’s Office is requesting 15 years in prison for both.
There was a time when luxury consisted of a five-star spa. Now the new symbol of well-being seems to be a three-degree bathtub. Cold plunging, immersion in cold water, has ceased to be an exclusive practice for elite athletes to jump into wellness centers, social networks, and wellness retreats. But in the face of this viral phenomenon, a question arises: are we facing a practice backed by science or the latest big wellness trend, or is it simply a moment of posturing?
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.
“If there are new irregular behaviors, we will act with the same firmness as we have acted before,” Pedro Sánchez guaranteed this Wednesday from Rome, after the meeting he held with Pope Leo XIV while agents from the Civil Guard’s Central Operative Unit (UCO) returned to the PSOE headquarters to request information about the Leire Díez case.
The same week that the Madrid president Isabel Díaz Ayuso accused the central Government of favoring Catalonia with the proposed financing model, the real data shows that the State invested 2.4 times more in Madrid than in Catalonia last year. The Catalan community received 8.6% of all the investment that the State executed in the country in 2025 and that can be regionalized by autonomous communities, as La Vanguardia revealed yesterday, with official data from the IGAE of the Ministry of Finance.
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