“Where’s the queue?” asked a desperate father accompanied by his daughters in Girona’s Devesa park this morning. He was running around like a headless chicken trying to guess the end of an endless line. His sight couldn’t reach any further, and the distress on his face was more than palpable.
The impact of the DANA of October 29 is not only measured in mud, but in an unprecedented economic paralysis. According to reports from the Valencia Chamber of Commerce and the Generalitat, the catastrophe affected more than 54.000 companies and jeopardized the livelihood of more than 190.000 workers affected by ERTEs, reduced working hours, and layoffs. With nearly 10.000 local shops and businesses devastated, the reconstruction of the ground zero requires a specialized workforce that the current market cannot cover.
An armed teenager opened fire at a high school in Thailand on Friday morning, causing the death of three teachers and three students before committing suicide. Fifteen other people were injured as a result of the shooting, which started at ten in the morning and lasted for several minutes at the Debsirin Institute in Nonthaburi, a municipality adjacent to Bangkok, on the other side of the Chao Phraya River.
There is no two without three. And, on this occasion, there is no three without thirty. On Tuesday night, some French tourists staying at the El Pins campsite in Malgrat de Mar called 112 to explain that they had found on the beach, returned from the sea, a bundle with several packages inside, which could contain drugs. And so it was. Specifically, thirty one-kilogram packages of cocaine with the same identity seal as the last ones found adrift on the Catalan coast: a small card with the image of Jesus Christ, the Bible, and a phrase in memory of a missing friend.
It took more than two decades to see Eric Clapton again in Barcelona, an eternity for his fans who last night, once again at the Palau Sant Jordi, enjoyed an evening that many no longer expected. Good blues and solos from a legendary guitar that, judging by the quality of what was heard, could well have started with the “as we said yesterday” that El último de la Fila used a few days ago, in their own return from the world of the living. “It seems we’re here for the same thing,” greeted a woman old enough to be a grandmother at the entrance of Sant Jordi to an acquaintance, who responded firmly: “to see the master.”
Good news in the labor market is terrible for investors. This was confirmed this Friday on Wall Street where the three indices suffered severe drops, led especially by the Nasdaq (down 4%) due to a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks once the good job creation results were announced.
In the calm waters of the fishing harbor of Hafnarfjördur, on the southwest coast of Iceland, the blue of the sky and the white of the clouds are reflected, creating a beautiful postcard-like effect. From here, boats set sail to fish for cod, haddock, and other species in the prized Icelandic fishing grounds, which from August of last year to this July provided a combined catch of one million tons of fish.
The president of the Generalitat Valenciana met this Sunday with some teachers at the pilgrimage of San Pascual Bailón in Monforte del Cid, in Alicante, and there he spoke with them about the situation of public education. In the video he shared on the social network “X” Pérez Llorca is seen talking with a group of teachers, dressed in the green t-shirt that characterizes the teachers these days of indefinite strike. And in the message preceding the video, he insists on the idea of dialogue: “Talking and working. That is the best way to solve the situation of education in the Valencian Community. Always willing to dialogue, because only by talking, listening, and working together can we move forward.”
In the early hours of September 1st, the fatal stabbing of Carles Vilajosana shocked the city of Manresa. The improvement in police statistics over the past few months was shattered because of this tragic event. Marc Aloy (ERC), the mayor of the capital of Bages, does not agree with the image projected in these last two weeks of Manresa as an unsafe city, although he does not at all hide the seriousness of a problem whose solution requires the involvement of other institutions.
Europe faces a structural challenge in its bet on hyperconnectivity. The expansion of next-generation networks, the need to strengthen the resilience of infrastructures, and the investment pressure required by technological deployment place the telecommunications sector at the center of the economic debate. In this scenario, digital infrastructure ceases to be a support element to become a strategic lever for competitiveness, productivity, and technological autonomy.
