The pre-bodas and post-boda boom arrives

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If you have had a wedding recently, you have most likely experienced it in your own meats: marriages are no longer a single day. Or every time they are less. Today is usual that the key moment of ‘yes I want’ is preceded and followed by a series of faustos that include commitment parties, farewells, prebodas and post -bodies, a succession of celebrations that increase the invoice and lead some to talk about ‘Endless Wedding’ either Weddings “Marathon”. The ‘great day’ is increasingly great and less day. A fact: 32%. A few months ago the specialized portal weddings.net did a curious exercise. As part of your Sectorial Report of 2025, in which it describes services, prices and trends related to the world of weddings, inquired how they now last on the celebrations. And his conclusion was surprising. Only 32% It lasts one day. The usual thing is that several days last. To be more precise, the 38% Of the couples celebrate two -day weddings, 28% prolong the event for three days and 2% even spend the four days. It is difficult to assess how that trend has evolved in recent years, but it helps to take a look at the Wedding.net report of 2019. There the platform indicated that it had not yet arrived in Spain “the international trend of weddings that last several days”, and sentenced: “It will take, it requires a cultural change.” Why are weddings lengthened? Good question. Complicated answer. And it is complicated because it does not enter a single factor at stake, but a sum of them. One (fundamental) is the growing visibility we have of the weddings of other countries through networks. And that includes both celebrations of anonymous and Celebritiesincluded Paris Hilton either Jeff Bezosevents marked by luxury and that continued for several days. Another reason (much simpler) is that weddings change because we do it. Every time we get married later (If in 1976 the Middle Ages was 25.8 years today exceed 38) and it is not strange that the bride and groom have spent part of their lives outside their native cities, on another tip of Spain or even abroad. That implies that friends include friends who can arrive from hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Extending weddings is a way to enrich your experience and, above all, reinforce contact. A pre -wedding for example serves that guests who don’t know each other can break the ice before the big day. Two words: ‘Destination Weddings’. The expansion of weddings coincides with another upward phenomenon, ‘Destination Weddings’ (fate weddings), links that are at the same time a tourist getaway. The bride and groom choose to marry the city where they live, in another municipality, community or even abroad, moving the ceremony (and guests) to iconic places such as the Greek islands, the Italian coast, Las Vegas or Ibiza. The objective is to enrich the experience, which is in turn promoting a business with respective growth. A few months ago Future Market Insights consultant published A study which estimates that the market of ‘fate wedding’ will reach this year globally the 36.8 billion dollars, considerably above the 23,000 million which projected in 2022, but still far from the 68,200 million that provides for them to be reached in just a decade. According to its calculations, the business will evolve with an annual compound growth rate (CAGR) from 6.4% to 2035. Of prebodas and post -bodies. In that ‘expansion’ of the celebrations there are two fundamental words, increasingly present in the celebrations: the Prebodas and postbods. The big day is still the same, that of ‘Yes I want’, but it is common for the eve of the bride and groom want to organize a first celebration so that guests can know each other and feel more relaxed the next day. Especially the youngest. That leads them to organize (increasingly) prebodas. “We do it because we feel like gathering our friends, especially those who come from outside, to catch up and thank them for the effort to come,” Comment to Eldiario.es Martín, a 30 -year -old man who will marry in a few months in Mallorca. “I also think it is positive because the wedding day you have to greet a lot of people, and so you take away that part,” Reflect. He is not the only one who thinks like that. In 2021 Aldara and Pablo, a couple who had married that same summer, related to The country How when planning the celebration they realized something: taking into account the number of guests, they would have three minutes to be with each one. Nothing else. Its solution was to expand the wedding, extending it to 48 hours: the first day they organized a ceremony “in its own way.” The second consisted of a “groove”, in his words, with a party in the pool that followed his time through the City Council, where they gave the formal ‘yes’. That the party does not stop. Prebodas triumph. And also the post -bodies, celebrations that follow the big day. I know confirmed a few years ago to S fashion A firm that is dedicated precisely to organize links: “A pre -wedding party has been almost mandatory if there are many guests from outside, but what we are noticing is an increase in post -basket celebrations. Brunch To fire the guests, for example, they are increasingly popular. ” There is nothing written about the post -bodies, but the usual comment From the sector, they consist of a pecking or a family reunion, closer, less formal than the day of the ceremony, and that they do not organize too late. The other figure: 24,618 euros. The celebrations change … and upload their cost. The last wedding yearbook shows something else: weddings continue to take care in our country. According to your calculationsthe average bill of marrying in Spain has risen from 21,056 euros in 2022 to 23,750 in 2023 and 24,618 in 2024. That is, in a couple of … Read more

The Warner platform either has enough to ban shared accounts and increases prices

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There is no platform that is not hugging the Price climb as a way of falling the crisis of audiovisual content in general and of the platforms in particular. HBO Max is one of those who are having a more changing trajectory with Mutations in the name And the approach, and is one of the last to raise their prices, after Netflix or Disney+ did it almost a year ago in both cases. How is the thing. A few months ago, with the name change, HBO Max has already announced new prices that affected new customers. These new rates affect ancient subscribers. From of the October 23, 2025the prices will increase, leaving like this: Basic plan with ads: 6.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 3.49) Standard plan: 10.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 5.49 euros) Premium plan with 4K content: 15.99 euros per month (50% discount if apply, 7.99 euros) Annual Plan: 109 euros a year. Why do they do it? This decision, according to the communication that HBO Max has sent to his subscribers, is made because “we are increasing the price in the light of the acquisition costs, creation of content and product development, to allow us to continue investing in the quality content and in the product experience that we strive to offer our customers.” At the same time, they also warn that the conditions of use have been updated, including aspects of content visualization and accessibility functionalities, reasons why they can make changes in the service and other issues. Luxury series. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros, declared a few days ago, In an interview with The Hollywood Reporterthat the price of HBO Max is below its real cost. And although the platform does not compete with others such as Netflix or Disney+ in terms of the amount of content, it can boast of being one of the most budget invests in its series. For example, ‘The Dragon House‘It costs 200 million dollars per season. And the future series of ‘Harry Potter‘promises a visual luxury at the height of the films. All this was wielded by Zaslav to justify new increases. Direct and indirect increases. Although the bad press that this type of decisions carries causes the platforms to be relatively restrained with the increases of their prices, the truth is that in recent years they have significantly increased the ways of having income. The main two have been the advertising inclusion before and during the programs, with different rates depending on whether or not the ads are eliminated, and the prohibition that accounts are shared Beyond the subscriber’s home, a flying that Netflix has already given and that other platforms have only implemented in a warm way. In Xataka | Video games have fired their number of users, and come from an unsuspected place: television series

A company is creating 3,000 a week

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This new podcast creation company has reached a conclusion that from the business point of view has no fissures: investing money in a sophisticated and that works without stopping generating content instead of signing podcasting personalities, much more expensive and slow. INTECTION POINT AIhowever, also puts on the table the most immediate dilemma facing the creation of content for the Internet: quality or quantity? Who they are. The Startup Inception Point AI is led by the former WonderyDective (a traditional podcasta platform) Jeanine Wright, and is betting on a Massive audio content generation strategy using 84 Autonomous AI systems (including models such as Plexity, Claude and Gemini) to produce and climb podcasts at high speed and low cost. The premise is to avoid the high spending of signing famous as presenters and, instead, create “talents” one hundred percent artificial. The numbers. Each episode costs Inception Point AI approximately 1 dollar, and integrates programmatic advertising. With only 20 listeners per episode, there are already benefits, without counting general expenses. Under the podcast network QUETE PLEASE PODAST NETWORK has launched 5,000 programs with more than 3,000 weekly episodes, and since September 2023 the network has reached 10 million downloads. Each episode has been producing for a team of about eight people, since it occurs with the idea until it is ready to be released. The programs, of very different formats, are presented by half a hundred characters generated by AI, with names such as Claire Delish (gastronomy), Nigel Thistledown (nature and gardening) or Oly Bennet (alternative sports) .. INTECTION POINT has already begun to produce short videos and establish profiles in social networks for them, with the intention that someone can become influencer digital. Slop content. INTECTION POINT AI seeks to position itself as a complementary, non -substitute option, but nevertheless, its low cost and the idea that everything is automated has once again put the issue of the theme of the issue of the table Slop content or junk content: Material produced through generative tools, prioritizing speed and quantity on value, novelty or precision, and is characterized both by its banality and the ease with which it expands on the web. The phenomenon arose in 2022 Together with the deployment of large generative models (LLMS and the graphic), and has been consolidated despite controversies such as the integration of systems such as Gemini in Google. But is this content “garbage”? Although we cannot qualify exactly Slop What does Inception Point do, its content fits with many aspects in the definition: as explained in The Conversationhe Slop It is a material ocean that overflows the user’s ability to filter the relevant and erodes the general quality of information on the network. Here we have absence of originality (From the moment there are no humans creating, but machines that regurgitate existing content), embrace a standardized aesthetic (as demonstrated by the chilling images of the broadcasters), volume and speed are valued above precision and algorithmic exploitation is favored, that is, it is material designed to capture attention and be monetized. Field paid for the Slop. Podcasts are spaces where the content created by AI can bloom without barriers. There are data that talk about access to podcasts mainly through smartphonesespecially during activities such as driving or exercising, with 38% of listeners listening while driving; And that 23% listen to podcvuts more than ten hours a week, which points to possible listening while other activities are done. Therefore, a light content, which does not require total attention, can find here where to expand, since unlike YouTube and social networks, it does not need full attention to be enjoyed. Header | Cory Vincent in Unspash In Xataka | I have asked the AI ​​any bullshit and now I am writing a news about her

Finish the work of the machines

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The scene took place several weeksbut Ukrainian soldiers keep remembering her because they can’t believe what they saw. A drone had sighted two Russian soldiers trapped in a shelter, who went out at the entrance of the hiding place and wrote a message in blue cirilic letters in an improvised white poster while he was crowded frantically towards the machine: “We surrendered,” he said. What followed was a scene where The drone directed them to the Ukrainian forces. Because drones do practically everything that the soldiers did before. General panorama and accelerated advance. The drone war in Ukraine has gone from being an emerging tactical factor to become The defining element From the conflict: what began as tests and specific operations has evolved until reforming the way in which the line is maintained and the rear is protected. The concrete and symptomatic example We described at the beginningWhen an air recognition detected the entrenched Russian soldiers, a land vehicle loaded with explosives that forced the surrender was launched and, for the first time, the offensive action culminated No direct human contact (soldiers that are paid by robots), a milestone that symbolizes the speed and depth of technological and doctrinal change in the Ukrainian theater. Innovations and expansion of the “lethal zone”. The little ones (but Very economical) Aerial ammunition (FPV Kamikazes) and land robots have extended the so -called “lethal zone” much further From classic rifle or mortar distances: today soldiers and columns can effectively attacked six, nine and even tens of kilometers of the contact line. That widening has transformed geometry Of the fight: the advanced mechanized lose operational mobility, the great formations become rare because of their vulnerability, and the dominant tactic are light and scattered units that minimize losses. The human consequence It’s brutal: populations of cities near the front collapse, logistics routes They become insecure and many routine missions (supply, evacuation) become dependent on unmanned platforms. Logistics robots and more. The UGVS proliferation (unmanned land vehicles) and cargo drones has turned logistics into a Army within the Army: from A 2K targan That evacuates a soldier even swarms that distribute ammunition, the objective is to preserve human lives replacing maximum risk tasks. Many brigades finance and buy these systems with civil donationsIn fact, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense plans mass shipments of tens of thousands of robots. At the same time, offensive capabilities of terrestrial robots (assaults, withdrawal of enemy material, mining/remote demining) have experienced A qualitative leapallowing operations that previously demanded specialized human teams and that today are executed in large part by machines. The role of elite units. Here appear the specialized regiments in unmanned systems that have become a strategic place: they are a priority objective of Russian attacks, but also the factors that maintain or break local fronts. His commanders They describe operations that destroy the enemy “view” (pilots and control capabilities), the “sting” (attacker drones) and logistics (deposits, workshops), a comprehensive strategy that seeks to suffocate Russia’s operational capacity for back as well as containing it in the front. Production, scale and career. We have counted before. War has shown that the advantage is not only tactical but also industrial: It is estimated that Ukraine and Russia, before 2025, produced huge amounts of FPV. The scale required to support a sustained offensive rhythm is astronomical (hundreds of thousands of units per month, according to some responsible). The Kremlin has ordered a great industrial ramp-up. And Ukraine It also seeks to multiply Its manufacturing and appeals to civil-military industrialization to achieve parity. This mass competition makes drone a new strategic wear vector: who produces more and maintains resilient supply chains will reach decisive advantages over time. Disruptive technologies. Two technological advances have marked a before and after. First, drones Tethered by fiber optic: They are wired, they are immune To radio interference And they can only be neutralized by direct fire, which makes them lethal and psychologically devastating infantry. Second, The integration of AI For guided and semi -autonomas that allow a drone to close the mission even losing the link with the operator. This raises precision and reduces the dependence of human control in saturated electronic warfare environments. In addition, chains of repeaters and transmitters are tested that extend the control radius up to 40 kilometerschanging the operational border of air systems. Limits and human dependence. Even with the technological revolution, there are Clear limits: The weather, the hardness of the land and the electronic warfare continue to favor classical systems such as artillery and human work in certain missions. For example, artillery is still irreplaceable in adverse conditions. In addition, remote operators They are not exempt Danger: when detected, they become priority targets and suffer counterattacks with conventional and unconventional weapons. War continues to need human capital (technicians, analysts, gunners), although their profile and exhibition change. Moral and strategic impact. No doubt, the displacement of lethal tasks to machines It raises dilemmas Moral and practical: the capture of prisoners induced by robots, the theft of weapons by UGVs, the automation of the clearance of mines, all reconfigures unwritten rules of combat and forces new doctrines, legal procedures and systems of responsibility. Strategically, the proliferation of drones has contributed to stagnate Russian advances on several fronts and has led to Ukrainian operational successes, but has also encouraged an offensive escalation In other areas (Mass bombing, Shahed launches) that maintain an asymmetric and devastating character. Future perspective. The majority of analysts agrees that if production can climb and the AI ​​is integrated with greater sophistication, the war will not only become more robotic but also more distributed and less predictable: We will see more frequent in -depth attacks, covered launches by nurse platforms, and eventually swarm formations and coordinated tasks between heterogeneous types of UAS and UGV. Nevertheless, They remembered in Insider That experts in the Ukrainian field insist on a practical warning: drones will not replace artillery or adverse time infantry, they are tools that, well used, preserve lives, but … Read more

European cookies notices have been a nightmare. We may finally wake up from her

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It was supposed to “accept cookies” would facilitate life. He is actually doing us lose 575 million hours a year. Cookies consent banners have become a Absolute nightmare For Internet users, but the European Commission (CE) is rethinking its regulations. Let’s cross fingers. What happened. A note sent to a discussion group of the European Commission was sent on September 15. This document, filtered by politician, reveals that the EC is considering how Modify cookies regulations in force so that it is much less annoying and intrusive to users. The browser can take care of it. There are apparently two options on the table. One, including more exceptions that would make cookies consent banners appear only on certain websites and situations. The other, even more interesting, is to ensure that each user could establish universal preferences through the browser to apply automatically every time they visit a website. That would not have to accept or reject them all suddenly, or select which cookies we accept or reject every time we visit a site, but do it transparent and instantaneously. A little history. In 2002 the European Union launched A directive on the privacy of electronic communications. This regulation required user consent for the use of cookies. In 2009 a law called E-Privacy Directive to force websites to achieve user consent before loading those cookies on their devices. The demand It was consolidated in May 2018 with the activation of the General Data Protection Regulations (RGPD) of the European Union. Good intentions turned into nightmare. Although the measure was well intentioned and was aimed at protecting the rights and privacy of Internet users, its implementation has converted it in something unbearable that makes the experience of insufferable web navigation. As Peter Craddock, Keller and Heckman’s lawyer, “too consent basically kills consent.” Or what is the same: The remedy is worse than the disease. Plans. This hell is now one of the key points of a European strategy to simplify the regulation that affects technology. Commission officials want to present an “omnibus” text in December in which many of the current regulations would be relieved. There was a previous attempt. In 2017 There was a proposal For an electronic privacy regulation that theoretically was going to simplify these cookies consent notices. However, the petition was abandoned in February of this year because the proposal was too complex and covered from online advertising to national security. THE GDPR TO RESCUE. A way to partially solve the problem would be Integrate that regulation of cookies within the general regulation of data protection (RGPD or GDPR for its acronym in English). This regulation adopts a more flexible philosophy based on risks, so that cookies banners theoretically apply only to a subset of the websites visiting users. In Xataka | You thought to be navigating in unknown and erasing cookies on your Android mobile. Goal I saw everything you did

Thus it is possible to steal information from companies without anyone knowing

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Notion’s new 3.0 version is updated with quite interesting changesalso introducing the fashionable now, Artificial Intelligence Agents that can execute complex tasks autonomously. However, it also opens the door to a critical vulnerability. And it is that those who come with not very good intentions can take advantage of a simpler technique than it seems to extract and send confidential data to external servers with the help of those same AI agents. The background problem. As they point out from Codeintegritymodern AI agents combine three elements that make them a potential threat: ability to use tools on their own, autonomous planning of actions and access to sensitive corporate information. In this way, when an attacker manages to manipulate the agent’s instructions, he can execute chains of complex actions that can end up dodging traditional security controls of companies. Image: Codeintegrity How the attack works. Through article Published by Codeintegrity, its researchers have shown that the process can end up being very simple. First, the attacker creates an apparently harmless PDF document. However, within the archive hide a text with malicious instructions that deceive the agent of the “important routine task” of the internal system. An invisible trap. The malicious text uses psychological manipulation techniques, presenting itself as a critical task that must be completed to avoid “consequences” in the company, also using technical terminology to seem legitimate and implying that the action is “pre -authorized” by safety. When the user asks the notion agent to summarize the document, he reads the hidden instructions and interprets them as genuine orders of the system. Data leakage. Once activated, the agent seeks confidential information in the user’s notion pages, as the Prompt had sent it, and concatena in a malicious URL previously described. Then use the system web search tool to send a query that contains all that sensitive information to a server controlled by the attacker, where the data is recorded. Scope of the problem. The most worrying thing is that this vulnerability It is not limited to PDF files Uploaded manually. Notion 3.0 integrates connectors with multiple business services such as Github, Gmail or Gira, any of which could be used to inject malicious instructions without the user suspect. Even advanced AI models such as Claude Sonnet 4considered among the safest in the market, have proven to be susceptible to this type of attack. What does it mean for companies. The techniques of ‘Prompt Injection‘They can question the security of any company that manipulates or manages diverse AI agents, since they can execute and plan actions autonomously. Therefore, companies that embrace AI, must also rethink their security protocols and establish new specific controls to tackle these types of problems. Cover image | Zan Lazarevic and generated by AI with Gemini In Xataka | Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care to lose $ 200,000 million in AI. The real risk would not be betting on it, ensures

After reviewing the 50 most likely scenarios, this is what we can expect from Hurricane Gabrielle Camino de Europa

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Hurricane Gabrielle advances through the central Atlantic at 16 kilometers per hour, feeding on warm waters, growing little by little, gaining speed. But none of that is especially important on this side of the ocean. It only matters one thing: that it is turning right in our direction. A changing scenario. Yesterday, the 50 most likely scenarios made it clear that the hurricane He was going to approach “To our region, with high probabilities of suffering an extroatropical transition (transformation on storm) of high intensity.” That is, a meteorologically very complicated event right off the coast of the Peninsula. In fact, like The meteorologist González Alemán pointed outThere were “scenarios where it would not suffer an extroatropical transition, but would approach without losing its tropical cyclone.” We had to pay attention to the Atlantic. Today those scenarios are converging progressively and everything seems to indicate that the worst part will take the Azores. And, with “worse part” I am not being metaphorical. “Some of the possible scenarios carry pressure centers even below 970 HPA”; that is to say, A very deep storm (and wild). The problem is that there are still six days left. And that, indeed, is a lot. To get an idea, according to the National Hurricane Center, it is most likely that Gabrielle loses his hurricane category between 12 and 24 hours before reaching the Portuguese archipelago. We already knew that Spain, like reminds us in Meteovigoit is difficult for him to llgue with the intensity of a hurricane because there are several “shields” that protect us (essentially deep water and polar jet). However, that does not mean that the impact of a storm of this type cannot be very intense. How of “intense”? That will be the question that we have alert for the rest of the week. If we have to listen to the current trend, it does not seem that the Peninsula will receive a direct impact. However, as I said, everything is very open. And in a season like this that is to say a lot. Because, although experts anticipated that the season was going to be relatively active, the truth is that the Atlantic Hurricanes factory has been surprisingly calm. Is there yet time to change this? Without a doubt, but there is less time left. Image | In Xataka | Without hurricanes in sight in the Atlantic: experts warn that it is not convenient to trust the final stretch

There is a new “technological giant” in the US. The surprise is that it is not from the US, but from Switzerland

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ANDThe Swiss National Bank (SNB), a traditionally conservative institution, has ceased to be. In fact, it has silenced one of the most important technological investors in the world. The firm has accumulated a portfolio of actions of such magnitude that its value is equivalent to almost a fifth of the annual economic production of Switzerland. What happened. According to records From the US stock and values ​​commission (SEC) of the month of June, the SNB has 167,000 million dollars in shares of US companies, distributed in more than 2,300 positions. That makes the entity a first -order investor in Silicon Valley. Love for Big Five. More than 42,000 million of that portfolio are invested in just five technological giants: Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Nvidia. SNB has A special focus on Applecompany in which it has invested almost 10,000 million dollars, and in Nvidia, where it has invested more than 11,000 million dollars. A gigantic entity. The Swiss National Bank is not a sovereign fund as such: its main mission is not active investment to make the country’s money grow. However, its asset balance, which amounts to 855,000 million dollars, places it in a league comparable to that of large investment vehicles from countries such as Singapore or Qatar. Experts, yes, They point that SNB is an entity that does not seek to influence these companies, and only uses its portfolio as a management tool for its currency. Banks do not do this. The SNB approach – which is not owned by the national government – is really atypical. The Bank of Japan For example, it makes use of mechanisms such as ETFs for its operation, and usually also buy shares from your own country. In Switzerland there are requests that the SNB manages that portfolio actively (as an investment fund) to make more profitability. Meanwhile, the European Central Bank warns that shares can be overvalued. And our Bank of Spain? The Bank of Spain, on the other hand, buys governments bonds to control inflation and interest rates throughout the eurozone. They all differ in their strategy, and clearly that of the SNB resembles an investment company than a traditional banking entity. SNB positions in US companies. Source: Financial Times with sec data. Switzerland is small to snb. But the Swiss bond market is too small for SNB operations, and that causes the entity to invest the foreign currencies that it acquires (mainly dollars and euros). He does it in bonds and, as we have seen, in abroad actions, a strategy that some analysts They call “Foreign quantitative flexibility” and that has led him to invest in those actions of technology companies in the US. The powerful Swiss Franco. The argument that defends that strategy is that of the Swiss Franco strengthconsidered a global shelter currency. Having a strong currency is fantastic, but it is not good that it is too much Strong because it slows exports and can cause deflation: the extrin products become very cheap for the Swiss and make the Swiss companies very difficult to compete. To counteract all this, SNB does the opposite of what investors do. Sells francs – adding the offer – and buy foreign currencies that he does not want to have stops, so he invests them in companies such as Apple or Nvidia. Passive-agreesive strategy. Although SNB philosophy is basically passive and does not exercise its voting rights in those companies, this entity adjusts its positions. The sec data reveals a great increase in their participation in NVIDIA or the creation of a new position in Berkshire Hathaway, and a reduction of assets in Meta and Netflix in the last two years. That, of course, has its risksbut SNB does not seem to go bad at the moment. In Xataka | All against Nvidia: the strongest Chinese companies in Chips and IA have created a historical alliance

Value sacrifice the historical dividend to create a European champion

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Telefónica is valuing to eliminate or reduce its dividend of 0.30 euros per share, as reported VOICE. The measure would be part of the Strategic plan that Marc Murtra will present on November 4 and that seeks to obtain liquidity to finance acquisitions in Europe. Why is it important. This movement would mean the end of an era for Telefónica and its shareholders. The Teleco has been considered a “dairy cow” for investors seeking dividend profitability, especially those of senior age and traditionalist profile, and conservative funds. Deleting this remuneration would mean betting everything to technological transformation and growth. And the end of a stage for the Matildes. In figures. Telefónica annually allocates about 1.7 billion euros to the payment of dividends. According to Bank UBS, eliminating this game would reduce leverage 0.18 times a year. That is, not distributing dividends would allow Telefónica to reduce the pressure it has for its still high debt to its benefits. The action has revalued 12% since the arrival of Murtra in January, but follows 83% below its historical maximums in 2000, and 80% from the peak prior to the 2008 crisis. The context. The operator needs financial muscle to execute its European consolidation strategy. Murtra wants to create a “European champion” through acquisitions, With Vodafone Spain in the spotlight as he anticipated Expansion. However, these operations require billions that the company does not have years of desireing. Zegona bought Vodafone two years ago for 5,000 million euros and will want to get a benefit to a hypothetical sale to Telefónica. Between the lines. Several investment banks have recommended this measure to Murtra, a sign of consensus in the financial sector about their need. The proposal breaks with decades of tradition in a company where shareholders such as Criteriacaixa and BBVA have historically based their confidence on “the remuneration strategy.” Yes, but. If this measure ends up, it will not be extraordinarily popular, not even internally. Pallete already reduced the dividend from 0.40 to 0.30 euros in 2021 To reduce debt, and maintain it has been an implicit promise. Bank of America considers “complicated” the passage through this prior commitment, although not impossible. The decisive moment. November 4 will be the key date. Murtra must convince the market to sacrifice the dividend will generate a higher future value. Outstanding image | Telefónica In Xataka | 100 years after his birth, Telefónica faces the greatest existential dilemma in its history: what wants to be older

The threat of Russia is no longer drones, they are now combat airplanes violating airspace. And Europe has taken its fighters

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First it was a swarm of Russian drones entering Poland’s airspace. NATO He responded with fire. That first order of Moscow has had its continuation last Friday, when three Russian fighters did the same In Estonia. NATO response was overwhelmed again. However, threat and tension, far from lesseing, has increased a few hours ago About the Baltic Sea. Russian incursion in Estonia. As we said, the recent cross of three fighters MIG-31 Foxhound Russians in Estonia’s airspace All alarms In Eastern Europe and has tested the immediate response capacity of NATO. The intrusion, occurred on The island of Vaindloo In the Gulf of Finland, it was carried out without flight plans, with transponders off and without communication with the Sonian air control services, which makes it an act deliberately provocative. Given this, the new Eastern Sentry operationwith the takeoff of Italian F-35 fighters of the Baltic Air Police Detachment, to which devices were added Swedes Jas 39 flu and Finnish fighters to intercept and monitor intruders. The episode It is not isolated: It continues at the entrance of 19 Russian drones in Poland and Romania the previous week, of which several were demolished by Polish and Dutch forces, and others crashed into Polish territory. These incidents demonstrate a Russian pressure pattern that seeks to test the limits of the alliance. Reactions. The political response was swift. Estonia Foreign Minister He described the incursion of “unprecedented provocation” and demanded rapid measures of political and economic pressure. Prime Minister Estonia communicated directly with NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, who reiterated the solidarity of the organization and the need for reinforce deterrence In the region. In addition, Estonia announced that he will convene for the first time in his 34 years as a member of the United Nations an emergency meeting of the Security Council. European diplomacy, in the voice of Kaja Kallas, He condemned the act As a “dangerous provocation” and stressed that it was already the third violation of community airspace in a few days, promising more support for the defense of the Baltic states. In parallel, voices in Lithuania They suggested that the alliance should be willing to demolish intruder planes, remembering the Turkish 2015 precedentwhen a Russian Su-24 was killed on the border with Syria. A Russian Mig 31 The legal framework. Given the situation, Estonia considers invoke article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which forces allies to joint consultations provided that one of them feels threatened their safety, such as Poland already did After the intrusion of Russian drones. The activation of this mechanism reflects the severity with which the threat is perceived and the need to show cohesion against Moscow. The Eastern Sentry operation, launched days before, initially provides rapid reaction fighters and an anti -aircraft, with the perspective of extending from The Arctic to the Black Sea to cover the entire eastern flank of the alliance against drones, missiles and airplanes. General Alexus Grynkewich, Supreme Commander Allied in Europe, He stressed that this new frame will allow a more flexible and focused defense where it is required. A Russian IL-20m German interception. A few hours ago the tension It has increased. The output of Two German Eurofighter From the Rostock-Laage base to intercept a Russian IL-20M recognition plane on the Baltic Sea, it has placed the region again in the center of the climb between Moscow and NATO. Again, the Russian apparatus flew with the transposeor off, without responding to contact calls, an increasingly common pattern in incursions that are interpreted as acts of deliberate provocation. The incident came just days after the incursion of the three Russian Mig-31 fighters. The strategic pulse of Moscow. For Poland and Baltic states, incidents are not isolated, but part of a sequence of calculated steps of harassment. Just a few days ago and as we count, Warsaw denounced Lat the fall of 19 Russian drones In its territory, and its Foreign Minister described the Kremlin strategy as a series of incremental provocations, always on the edge, but without reaching the open conflict. The discovery of remains of a lure drone in a Polish forest reinforces the sensation constant trial of NATO defenses. Meanwhile, the Kremlin He denies responsibility and accuses the West, in particular to the United Kingdom, to lead an alleged “warmongering field” that prevents progress in the resolution of the war in Ukraine. The fissures of the West. One of the most disturbing elements in this context is the perception that the United States could be reducing its commitment in the defense of the eastern flank. Bloomberg cited Kremlin sources according to which Putin would have concluded, after his summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, that Washington will not significantly reinforce kyiv’s military capacity, which encourages Moscow to intensify its attacks to force Ukrainian capitulation. In parallel, The Guardian told that reports that the White House plans to reduce security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, despite being countries directly exposed to Russian pressure. Trump’s statement, stating that he would defend Europe but without deepening details, adds strategic ambiguity at a time of high voltage. Climbing risk. Baltic and Central European leaders agree that the situation is dangerously approaching A breakdown. The president of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, warned that, although Russia strives to clearly exceed red lines, erratic logic and incompetence at different levels of the Russian system could lead to a real clash, whose responsibility would fall on the Kremlin. From Prague, President Czech Peta Pavel He claimed an answer Firm and united from NATO, remembering that giving in to the aggression would be equivalent to “turning your back on evil.” The shadow of a greater conflict plans on the northeast European: each new air incursion or drone attack increases the probabilities of a calculation error that precipitates a direct confrontation. Ukraine and a way. Under this climate of growing hostility, President Zelensky declaredbefore traveling to the UN, who would be willing to meet with Putin, even with Trump, to explore A political exit. … Read more

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