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 Hungary has formally withdrawn the veto it had maintained for the past two years on Kyiv’s request to join the EU, which will allow the opening of the first chapter of negotiations in a key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.
The climax of the trial against David Sánchez at the Badajoz Court is approaching for the alleged crimes of malfeasance and influence peddling. The brother of the Prime Minister will testify this Thursday and will have the opportunity to defend himself against the accusations that he was appointed in the Badajoz Provincial Council in 2017. Also testifying in this fifth session of the trial will be the former president of the Provincial Council and former secretary general of the PSOE of Extremadura, Miguel Ángel Gallardo, accused of having designed a senior management position tailored for David Sánchez.
This Wednesday, June 3, at 7:00 p.m., Casa Cupra Raval hosts a new session of Meetings with Journalists, an opportunity to get to know the current news up close with the professionals of the sector.
Donald Trump has choked on the war he himself started against Iran three months ago. The calculations he made have turned out to be completely wrong and now, like GPS, he is ‘recalculating the route’.
Isak Andic was 71 years old when on December 14, 2024, he died after falling from one of the Montserrat trails, which he was walking alone with his firstborn Jonathan. It was the first time in ten years that father and son went out for a walk together, according to the Mossos d’Esquadra after analyzing all the messages they exchanged in the last ten years and which the deceased kept religiously on his phone. Jonathan Andic, accused of his father’s homicide, told the police that these outings were “usual.” This statement was “denied” in the latest order signed by the judge of Martorell, Raquel Nieto, and to which La Vanguardia has had access.
Starting gun for the new Grifols plant in Lliçà de Vall. The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, laid the first stone of the facilities this Wednesday, which will begin operating in 2030. The Catalan blood derivatives company will add this complex to the one it already has in Parets del Vallés to create a 25-hectare biotechnology hub that will have more than 3,700 employees. Of these jobs, 400 will be newly created.
Seat’s factory in Martorell enters the electric era. The owner of the Seat and Cupra brands started production this Wednesday of the Cupra Raval and Volkswagen ID.Polo models, the first electric vehicles to be manufactured at the Catalan plant, as part of the electrification plan of its German parent company. These compact cars are aimed at the economic segment, with prices around 25,000 euros. The Raval is expected to be a boost for the Spanish company, which has pushed its financial results to the limit due to investment in electrification and tariffs on the Tavascan, an electric vehicle made in China.
Microsoft has presented its new quantum chip, Majorana 2, which is 1,000 times more reliable than its first version, presented in February 2025. The company has announced that the material architecture of this chip multiplies the reliability of its qubits, the minimum unit of information in a quantum computer, by 1,000. The qubits of Majorana 2 have an average lifetime of 20 seconds and peaks reaching one minute compared to the microseconds of conventional quantum chips. After the chip presentation, the company sets its goal to build a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving the initial target timeline.
The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals that of some of the largest countries in the world, according to a report from the United Nations University, which also predicts what water and energy consumption will be. The emissions that warm the atmosphere will double in less than five years, as the use of artificial intelligence grows.
As every year, the Ministry of Health has launched its National Plan for Preventive Actions on the Effects of Excess Temperatures on Health with the main objective of reducing morbidity and mortality associated with heat waves of epidemiological impact. One of the main new features this year is that the plan updates certain temperature thresholds after a thorough review of historical mortality and heat series in Spain, incorporating new methodological criteria.