Heartbreak, weariness, spirituality, loss, or simply the will to wait for the right person. The reasons for consciously choosing celibacy are multiple, and Sharon Stone (Pennsylvania, 1958) has just revealed hers. At 68 years old, the star of Basic Instinct says she has not had sex for a while because she only wants to do so again if she falls in love.
“It is a scam, we do not charge for promoting books,” says Adrián Díaz, founder of Ciervo Blanco, a non-profit association that organizes book clubs. This was his response to my question about the email I received, signed by “Tatiana. Director and Super Organizer. Ciervo Blanco Literary Gathering. Madrid, Spain,” in which she offered her services for 195 euros. “The real Tatiana works with us,” Díaz comments, “but she is not the one who wrote to you, I suppose her name is not Tatiana, she has also used my name and those of other people in the association, she takes them from Meetup and our website, I think she is in India, although of course I don’t know if it is a woman or a man, or several people.”
Spain could see between 800 and 1,500 million euros of pending European funds cut if it fails to validate the lobby royal decree-law in Congress next Wednesday. While diverse positions appear in the business environment, the Government still lacks the necessary votes to pass the vote. Ibex companies, the CEOE, and the unions are trying to sink it, but the groups dedicated to lobbying are betting that Spain will have, after six years of debate, a regulation governing their activity.
Sweden faces a tight general election this Sunday, with polls showing how the right-wing bloc of the conservative Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, is increasingly closing the gap with the center-left opposition, which had been leading for weeks and was pointing to an almost certain victory. This possibility is due to the fact that, according to the latest survey by the market research institute Novus, the Liberal Party – a minor partner of Kristersson – would surpass the 4% threshold necessary to obtain parliamentary representation.
Not all past times were better. In fact, most of the time it was worse than the deceptive memory suggests. It is understandable that older people feel nostalgia for their youth, when – for better or worse – they had their whole lives ahead of them. It is more surprising that young people feel it for an idealized time they have not lived through. But, beyond the ignorance it denotes – and which, given the levels of reading comprehension of our schoolchildren, shows no signs of improving – it is an indicator of the discomfort and bewilderment that the present arouses in part of society.
Twenty-five September 11 later, in the same place, it is a splendid day. Blue sky, ideal temperature. It was also a splendid day that Tuesday in 2001. A detail that seems secondary until it ceases to be.
Juan Roig, in addition to being one of the richest people in this country, has visionary gifts. The income statement of Mercadona, which is going like a rocket, is a good testament to his commercial instinct. But, unlike Coca-Cola, there is no secret in his business: few entrepreneurs (and…
It is 9:00 PM at night in a supermarket in Barcelona or Valencia. A group of thirteen neighbors patiently waits for the supermarket workers to take out the bags containing the leftover food of the day and place them inside some rectangular organic waste containers located at street level. Little by little, some neighbors open the bags and, in an organized manner, rummage through the food they find inside to quickly and efficiently distribute the foods that have been selected and discarded for unknown reasons.
The Waste Law, approved by Congress in 2022, was hailed as a valuable initiative. But its high degree of non-compliance and its insufficient application or regulatory development exasperate citizen organizations. “We can continue to approve laws and adapt on paper to European obligations, but a law that is not developed, not controlled, and not enforced does not reduce a single waste.” This is stated in a manifesto signed by more than 130 social, consumer, environmental, and social economy organizations grouped in the Zero Waste Alliance and the #LeydeResiduosYa platform.
No one can say we weren’t warned. The United Kingdom has just announced that its economy is growing at a much faster rate than expected thanks to the boost from artificial intelligence. The United States as well, even global growth relies on the development of the new…
