Tobías Martínez has been appointed president of Openchip, one of the most promising companies in the microchip industry in Barcelona. Market sources confirm that the former Cellnex executive will take over from Carles Kinder.
Pope Leo XIV is already in Spain, after landing in Madrid past 10 AM, for his seven-day official visit which will include the Spanish capital, Barcelona (where he will visit the Sagrada Familia and bless the Jesus Tower) and the Canary Islands.
With a firm, calm step and now free —which is no small thing—, Luis Bárcenas arrived this morning at the Audiencia Nacional ready to undergo an interrogation in which he would explain what documents were stolen from him through the so-called Operation Kitchen, allegedly orchestrated by the Ministry of Interior during Mariano Rajoy’s time. However, the former treasurer of the Popular Party, with no outstanding issues with justice, delved into an area that the judge who instructed the case did not want to enter: “this operation was initiated by the party leaders”.
The PP of Catalonia will hold its congress on June 27 with the aim of relaunching the project eight years after the last conclave. Alejandro Fernández (Tarragona, 1976) is running for re-election as president, having overcome tensions with Alberto Núñez Feijóo, with the intention of strengthening the party and growing as an alternative.
Mortgagors with loans indexed to the Euribor who have their review with the July data will notice an increase in their installments. The indicator will close with the highest monthly average since September 2024, as the provisional data, with one day left to conclude the month, stands at 2.85%, three-quarters of a percentage point higher than a year ago. The figure is also slightly higher than that of June.
Junts inflicted a double defeat of enormous political significance on the Government in Congress this Tuesday by joining its votes with those of PP and Vox to overturn, with only a few minutes’ separation, two of the most sensitive initiatives of the legislature. These were the housing decree promoted by Sumar and the investment consortium agreed between ERC and the PSC to strengthen the Generalitat’s participation in state investments in Catalonia. The setback hits the coalition hard on the eve of the Andalusian campaign, with polls already very adverse for the left against Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla’s PP, which aims to revalidate its absolute majority.
Few Catalan industrial companies can boast of having been born in the Eixample of Barcelona. And even fewer of having gone through three different centuries. Damm is one of them. Like most family businesses, it keeps the name of its founder. In 1876, the Alsatian master brewer August Kuentzmann and Joseph Damm, who had emigrated to Barcelona fleeing the Franco-Prussian war, rented a building on Viladomat street. It was a brewery that would end up becoming the seed of a food and hospitality company that today invoices 2.025 billion euros, earns 175 million, and has 16 factories of beers, waters, soft drinks, and other beverages. With a presence in 130 countries, it is one of the best-known Catalan multinationals. Today, as the company celebrates its 150 years of life, the Carceller family is its main shareholder.
The second time is expected to be the charm. The Ministry of Finance is set to approve this Friday the reform of the regional financing model after 17 years of debates and fruitless discussions. More than three decades during which public services have been strained and therefore need additional resources. To alleviate this deficit, the proposal that the central Government will put to a vote includes an additional 21 billion for the system. However, the Executive has only managed so far to gain the support of Catalonia and the Canary Islands, co-governed by the PP. The rest of the autonomous communities, all those with PP presidents and two socialists, Castilla-La Mancha and Asturias, have indicated that they will reject it. The Community of Madrid will not be at tomorrow’s meeting of the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, having announced today that it will not attend and has called on other governments of the same political color to boycott it.
Day of mystery, silences, hopes, and speculations this Tuesday in Moscow. It all began when the specialized website Flightradar24 reported the landing of a U.S. military plane at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. Since the arrival of Donald Trump’s mediators to resume the stalled search for solutions to the war in Ukraine has been expected for weeks, speculations did not take long. But a few hours later, American media CBS and Axios claimed that none other than the head of U.S. espionage, the CIA director John Ratcliffe, had flown to the Russian capital to attend meetings with Russian authorities in Moscow. Neither the United States nor Russia have officially confirmed this trip.
For just 41 thousandths of a second, a breath, Àlex Márquez maintains dominance in his territory. The Cervera rider won the Sprint of the GP of Catalunya over Pedro Acosta in an intense duel that was decided on the last lap, after 12 laps of battle between the Catalan and the Murcian.