Former Prime Minister José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero will grant an interview to public television this Thursday. It is his first public appearance after his indictment and after having testified before the judge, José Luís Calama, who is investigating him in the National Court.
The CEO of Repsol, Josu Jon Imaz, has accused the market and competition regulator, CNMC, of “not doing its job” when it comes to identifying those responsible for the blackout that Spain suffered on April 28, 2025. “The regulator has chosen to spread confusion and open investigations into all companies for situations that are not even related to what happened with the blackout, and the only thing that has done is create confusion,” he said during the conference with analysts that the executive held this Thursday to present the company’s first-quarter results.
The Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (Airef) has revised upwards the growth forecasts for the Spanish economy for the coming years, from 2027 to 2030. The reason is immigration. Foreign workers are making a significant contribution to the improvement of GDP and will continue to do so in the coming years, assures the regulator.
The Spanish Government has been invited by the company Anthropic, like the rest of the countries of the European Union, to access its artificial intelligence model Claude Mythos, which for the first time will be tested outside the borders of the United States and the United Kingdom. This AI has been considered a very dangerous tool, because in its initial tests it identified hundreds of significant security flaws in all computer and mobile operating systems, which led Anthropic to create in mid-April a closed group of companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon, among others, in the so-called Project Glasswing, which is now being accessed by European countries.
Beyond laws, the declaration of human rights, ordinances, the struggle of entities, and even beyond good intentions and common sense, Barcelona lacked a structural element, an active public policy to fight for the equality of all people. That is why this Monday the first Anti-Racist Plan 2026-2036 was presented in the Saló de Cent of the City Council, a cross-cutting commitment worked on with experts that involves the entire municipal machinery in areas such as housing, education, participation, health, and coexistence.
With thousands of people evacuated and more than 150,000 hectares burned this year in Spain, one of the main questions among those affected is who pays for the damages and what aid they can receive. While the Government prepares the declaration of a severely affected area and new measures to protect workers affected by the fires, compensation depends on a combination of private insurance and public aid.
This is one of those municipal projects that generate a certain sense of déjà vu in anyone who follows urban planning information in Barcelona with some interest. The City Council announced this Thursday the awarding of the Landskrona project in the ideas competition to define the Magòria complex, in Sants-Montjuïc, on the mountain side bank of Gran Via. The works, which include sports facilities, a new garden, and the underground work and cleaning center of Parc i Jardins, should start in January 2028. The fact is that something similar happened in the previous decade, with the expectation of being able to cut the ribbon in 2022.
“I hope the next article I write is in New York, without knowing how a final between Spain and, for example, Argentina ends. Just imagining it seems crazy to me.” That’s how my article ended last week. And here we are, living all this, caught in a story that has something of…
Eduardo Casanova wanted to tell the world that it is perfectly possible to live with HIV and nothing happens, that stigmas only feed hatred. This is what the Spanish actor and director explains in Sidosa, the documentary released last week in some cinemas with which he has decided to “break years of silence.” The film, produced and hosted by Jordi Évole and directed by Lluís Galter and Màrius Sánchez, is conceived as a cathartic journey seasoned with humor, emotion, memory, and cinema, which allows understanding the reality of people with HIV today.