The Congress of Deputies gave the green light last Tuesday to the royal decree that establishes an extra financing of 6.2 billion euros this year and 2027 to the dependency system managed by the autonomous communities. But what does this increase in funding mean for dependents, their families, and workers?
Barcelona has a supercomputer that not only processes billions of numbers, simulates the climate, or analyzes DNA sequences. It also puts all its potential at the disposal of artists so they can translate that entire amalgam of data and cold codes into tangible works that can be felt, seen, and heard. But also, and unlike other technological centers, so that artists humanize technology and contribute to science through their work. This is made possible thanks to the Creative Intelligence Lab, a space created by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), where the Marenostrum 5 is located, one of the most powerful computers in the world.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, received very good news from Brussels this Wednesday. Hungary has formally withdrawn the veto it had maintained for the past two years on Kyiv’s request to join the EU, which will allow the opening of the first chapter of negotiations in a key breakthrough that occurred unexpectedly during a routine meeting of ambassadors in the community capital.
Shake-up in the Ukrainian army. President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, this Tuesday and has appointed General Mykhailo Drapatyi, who until now was in charge of leading the Joint Forces, in his place.
In the largest outbreak of Andes hantavirus ever recorded, 23 of the 34 affected people (68%) did not infect anyone. Not a single one of the 82 healthcare professionals who treated the 34 patients became infected, despite most not using protective equipment. Eleven of the 34 patients died.
When the Prime Minister of Hungary, Péter Magyar, took office on May 9, he uttered a phrase about his electoral victory that underpins his current actions and plans for the future. According to Magyar, in the general elections of April 12 – in which he overwhelmingly defeated the previous Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán – “the Hungarians expressed that they want changes, not just a change of government, but of the system.”
Catalonia will not have a parity investment consortium between the State and the Generalitat. The bill presented by Esquerra Republicana with the aim of creating an entity that would allow jointly planning, deciding, and executing investments in state-owned infrastructures in Catalan territory will not become a reality after Congress rejected its consideration with the votes of PP, Vox, Junts, PNV, and UPN. In other words, the proposal worked on jointly by ERC, the Govern, and the Government did not even pass the first filter.
While Mexico prepares to be one of the hosts of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in the state of Sinaloa a much older sport survives: ulama, a pre-Hispanic ball game with more than 3,400 years of history that today fights to stay alive.
A critical Europeanist is defined. The British Martin Wolf (London, 1946) has received the European Construction award given each year by the Cercle d’Economia. His columns in the Financial Times have inspired the debate on the global economy for decades.
La Audiencia Nacional resumes the Kitchen trial, which this week will have only one session, this Monday, in which the former deputy operational director of the Police, Eugenio Pino, and the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo are scheduled to testify about an alleged parapolice operation between 2013 and 2015 to spy on the former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas.