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The price of chocolate is rising so much that chocolate bars are no longer legally chocolate bars.

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Imagine for a moment that Nocilla, the famous Spanish spread, reduced the chocolate in its recipe so much that they could not use its famous ditty about “milk, cocoa, hazelnuts and sugar” without incurring fraud. Imagine the shock, the controversy, the disbelief. Well, something very similar to that. just happened in the uk and, honestly, it is a warning of the future of chocolate. What has happened? For decades, McVitie’s tried to become in the UK’s quintessential chocolate cookie: “If you like your cookies with lots of chocolate, join our club,” has been their advertising slogan all this time. But that’s over: Pladis, the parent company (one of the country’s largest producers of cookies, sweets and salty snacks), has so limited the chocolate in the recipe for its Club cookies and Penguin bars that, legally, they are no longer chocolate cookies. Now They only have a chocolate ‘flavor’. But why? The explanation is simple: cocoa prices have risen so much (especially, in 2024 and early 2025) and skyrocketing production costs. As we have been warning for months, this pressure was wreaking havoc on the world of chocolate. Manufacturers very quickly realized that they could not transfer all the increases to final prices: demand was going to be savagely reduced. The reduflation and countless other strategies to contain prices. And as both in the United Kingdom and in the European Union, the regulation requires that at least 20% of the product are “cocoa solids”crossing that line requires a change of name. And what does all this imply? Although it may seem strange, the consequences of all this in October 2025 are that although consumption falls due to price, business improves. Although chocolate is 13% more expensive today than at the beginning of the year and almost 19% more than just a year ago; the sector has been able to generate more than 80 million profit than last year. However, the future is uncertain. In a recent report, Produlce (the sector’s employers’ association) recognized that consumption fell last year (according to their calculations, by 8.6%), although spending per person increased by 5.5%. But that is something worrying: because, despite the fact that cocoa is giving some rest, the price is still double what is usual. And everything suggests that will continue to rise in the medium term. Image | Ubcule | Monika Guzikowska In Xataka | A chocolate bar filled with pistachio has become the most desired viral on TikTok: the “Dubai chocolate”

LaLiga IPS blockages are based on a mysterious judicial sentence. Rootedcon is trying to legally cancel it

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The War between LaLiga and Cloudflare The IPS blockages ordered by LaLiga to fight against illegal soccer matches leave thousands of websites, but for a few days there are an effort specifically aimed at trying to end the problem. Rootcon against the sentence in which LaLiga is shield. Those responsible for Rootedcon They organized two weeks ago an initiative to collect data and testimonies of those affected. These are companies or people who have seen how their websites – totally legitimate – have been harmed and have ceased to be temporarily accessible during those IPS blockages. That may also have caused economic losses, but the situation persists without being a solution on the horizon. Legal Arthimañas. That is precisely what Rootedcon is trying to do, which has announced that he has raised: “An incident of nullity in the Commercial Court number 6 of Barcelona, ​​against Judgment No. 310/2024, dated December 18, 2024, achieved through legal arthingswhich is used by the League to force operators to block and restrict Internet access in their fight against “piracy” at the request of the football company. This ruling, and the way in which it is being used, violates fundamental rights and limits free access to information, a right that we consider unnegotiable. “ Request for nullity for the sentence. In Xataka we have contacted those responsible for Rootedcon, who have explained that this process is not a legal lawsuit as such, but a petition so that this sentence on which LaLiga is supported is annulled. This sentence has been difficult to locate, and according to rootedcon it should be annulled by violating fundamental rights. There is damage to third parties. As we already explained, the procedures in which LaLiga is shielded They are debatable at the legal levelespecially because the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures (the IPS blocks) have been executed anyway. Defense of Freedom of Expression. For rooted with this conflict is being used “to justify actions that limit access to content in the network” and that constitutes “an injustice against freedoms of expression and information.” As they explain in their communication, this blockade “is massive and not only affects the assumptions cybercriminals, but economically impacts the activity of many organizations and companies.” There are currently more than 140,000 websites using Cloudflare services. Not everyone has been affected by the cuts, but of course a part of them. Source: Builtwith. About 140,000 affected potentials. An analysis of the IPS blocked in Cloudflare shows how these IPS are being shared at the moment For more than 140,000 websites. Not everyone is inaccessible, of course: it depends on the services that these websites have hired with this company. However, in that list are all kinds of companies: from the media (El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, RTVE) to large companies such as Carrefour, Decathlon, Idealist or Pccomponent) and of course websites of more modest projects that are also losing business opportunities for those blockages. And among them, football team websites. Ironically, lalaiga -instructed locks They are also affecting to the websites of First Division equipment. A systems administrator called Jaume Pons has been tracking these blockages for some time and last weekend he warned how the Girona FC online store It was inaccessibleas had also happened to the Valencia CF website either To Kelmesponsor of the Spanish RCD. The legal battle continues. Blocks too. The situation remains worrying for users and companies that legitimately use Internet services in our country. They have become involuntary victims of a Legal battle between LaLiga and Cloudflare that at the moment does not seem to have a solution. The latter began legal actions against LaLigabut there have been no changes in the way of acting of LaLiga, which continues to order these blockages and affect thousands and thousands of users. Image | Madrid athletic In Xataka | This is how Ech works, the Technological Shield of Cloudflare that has put the operators between the sword and the wall

LaLiga is still determined to block IPS. Not clear that I can do it legally

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The War between LaLiga with Cloudflare It is intensifying, and this last weekend we have seen how websites blockages (legitimate or not) Not only have they been repeated but have gone to more. There is despite doubts about the validity of these measures, and that is where it is good to explain what their legal support is. The context and the problem. LaLiga, in contact with the operators, has implemented measures that affect the services provided by cloudflare to its users. IPS (dynamic, according to LaLiga) are aimed at avoiding the illegal broadcast of football matches, but are affecting thousands of legitimate web sites and services. The reason: in Cloudflare IPS are shared and when one is blocked, all the sites associated with it are blocked. The background. The contents industry protected by intellectual property has been looking for mechanisms for years to protect your business. Among them is the modification of the legislation to for example try to avoid (or minimize) judicial intervention. That happened for example With the Sinde law. Article 138 of the Intellectual Property Law. Javier A. Master (@Javieramastre), by Maestre Abogados, published last Friday an extensive analysis entitled ‘The Affaire Cloudflare‘Explaining in detail the legal situation in this area. How he said, the mechanisms of the Sinde law “were not agile enough”, and for that is the art. 138 of the Intellectual Property Law (LPI), which in essence allows rights holders to request urgent precautionary measures against intermediaries that facilitate infractions, without the need to demonstrate that the intermediary is also offender. LaLiga “demands” the operators. What allow both art. 138 As the 139 of the LPI is that the owner of the rights can directly sue the service providers (the operators) instead of the direct offenders. For Master the situation is as follows: “With this trick, everyone is stored for each other: The plaintiffs: we only ask for the measures. It is the judge who agrees. The judge: one is asking for one, the defendant is paved. I have to grant the request. The operator: I have to pay attention to the judge. “ Violation of freedom of expression. This expert adds that these closures occur without giving those affected the opportunity to defend themselves, “in a flagrant violation of both freedom of expression and information (art. 20 of the Constitution) and of the right to effective judicial protection (art. 24 of the Constitution) “. This process effectively avoids the participation of the parties really affected in the litigation. But it should not be able to apply in this case. These measures are oriented to the urgent precautionary scope, but for example the Provincial Court of Barcelona interpreted in 2018 that these measures can be applied beyond this area. Thus, the sentence said, “it is established, for the first time, the possibility of requesting precautionary measures against intermediaries whose services use a third to violate intellectual property rights, without the requirement that the intermediary is also offender.” And the evidence, what?. In that “doubtful constitutionality,” says Maestre, there is continuously talk about “urgent precautionary measures.” However, the audition was established at least “the need for a finding of the existence of infraction,” that is, proof that this violation of intellectual property is taking place. In the case of Cloudflare, the measures are based on a technical report that has not been contrasted, and the measures apply without those affected being able to defend themselves. Plaintiffs and defendants united in collusion. Maestre points out that demanding (LaLiga) and defendants (operators such as Movistar) act in collusion in the judicial process to achieve the restriction of services without those affected being able to defend themselves. The PREVIOUS CASE JUDGMENTS They are shielding that the supposed offenders had not been “identified or located”, which would make it impossible for their defense to participate. Master makes it clear that in this case “Cloudflare is perfectly identified.” But there is damage to third parties. This expert stands out how the Article 21 of the Civil Procedure Law (LEC). According to this text, the search should be rejected when it involves damage to third parties not demanded in the procedure. Here many affected have not demanded have been –all economically harmed companies and individuals-, but still the measures have been executed anyway. Violated fundamental rights. All this points to a potential violation of several fundamental legal principles, including the Article 24 of the Constitution Spanish that guarantees the right to be heard and defend itself in a judicial process. In addition, Spanish legislation, through articles 270 of the LOPJ and 150 of the LEC, force to notify the judicial resolutions both to the parts of the process and to those who could be affected by them. According to Master, this obligation has been ignored. Images | WIRESTOCK | LaLiga In Xataka | The government wants to end unwanted commercial calls. The question is whether they will stop calling us “by Indeed”

“I am thinking of leaving the US”: the hopelessness of migrants who legally arrived in the country in the face of the restrictions now imposed by Trump

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Image source, Getty images Article information Mario has been 3 months and 14 days without touching his wife. The Venezuelan migrant keeps a thorough record of the time that he has lived away from Sofia, with the same precision with which he manages finance in investment companies or monitors the minutes in their training for triathlons. Mario lives in the United States with a temporary protection status (TPS), while his wife requested the parolea humanitarian permit that the government of former president Joe Biden granted to 530,000 Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Haitians, who arrived in US territory after fleeing crises in their countries, according to figures from the Office of Customs and Border Protection. But this mechanism was suspended by Donald Trump a day after assuming the presidency, as part of a set of measures aimed at curbing irregular migration to the United States. Although Sofia obtained the parole In May of last year, your travel permit is still waiting in Caracas to be issued by the United States authorities. His son, on the other hand, made the request at the same time, received the travel authorization 3 days after having achieved the parole and emigrated in June. “Honestly, I’m thinking of leaving the United States,” Mario said in a WhatsApp call in which Sofia also participated. “I’ve been waiting for my wife to come with him for more than 3 years parole And now they suspend it. I’m fed up. “ Image source, Getty images Photo foot, A group of migrants on the border discovers that the application of migratory quotes, CBP One, no longer works after Donald Trump’s investiture. Legally migrate Migrants outside the United States could manage their procedures through CBP One, an application that the Biden government enabled in January 2023 to assign appointments with immigration authorities. But the platform was deactivated after Trump’s investiture and the records of 940,000 people were eliminated. “Our intention has always been emigrating in the right way, legally,” Sofia said from Caracas. “We follow the norms, we invest our heritage in this process and now we do not know what else we can do.” Image source, Getty images Photo foot, In recent years, thousands of migrants entered irregularly through the southern border of the United States after crossing the Rio Bravo. The couple asked to preserve their true identity, with the hope that this testimony does not harm them if the Trump government enables other mechanisms to allow the entry of the beneficiaries of Parole and the CBP One appointments. So far it is unknown if the decision of the Trump government annuls the cases in progress or if it will only prevent new applications. Nor is it clear what will happen to people who, like Sofia, already had the approved procedure and expect a travel permit. Image source, Getty images Photo foot, The appointments assigned through the CBP One application were eliminated. Of parole to deportations Biden used the parole Humanitarian as an answer to the immigration crisis that unleashed the Russian invasion in Ukraine. In April 2022, he implemented this mechanism to offer Ukrainians the possibility of legally reaching the United States, and staying for 2 years with work permit, with the support of a sponsor registered with the Department of National Security. Months later, in October 2022, the program extended to Venezuelans, which during the last decade added 7.8 million migrants and refugees, and became the greatest exodus in the history of the American continent. In January 2023, the parole The citizens of Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua were extended. However, one of Trump’s most important campaign promises was to stop irregular migration to the United States, which recorded historical indices during the Biden government. As soon as he assumed the reins of the White House, Trump announced that his government will undertake the mass deportation of undocumented, a measure that could affect at least 11 million people living in the country without having a legal immigration status. In addition, he declared “national emergency” on the border with Mexico and the deployment of military forces to guard it, and even repealed the law that prohibited security forces seeking undocumented migrants in churches, schools and hospitals, places that were previously considered ” sensitive “and that should be exempt from migratory raids. Image source, Getty images Photo foot, Migrants and activists protest on the border between Mexico and the US against mass deportations. A third country Mario reviews the family story that led them to the decision to leave for the United States. First, the death of his youngest daughter in Venezuela, due to heart failure that was complicated by the lack of medicines. Then, the decision to emigrate to Colombia to cope with that loss with a new life project. Then, the creation of a company that finally broke due to the confinement of the pandemic. To recover from that failure, Mario decided to accept a job offer in the United States, while Sofia returned to Caracas to reorganize. They sold everything and allocated their savings to the procedures to settle in the United States. “This whole process has cost us about US $ 30,000,” Mario said. “And now it turns out that I can’t see my wife? This is no longer an effort, it is a sacrifice.” In August 2024, the process of Sofia and thousands of applicants was temporarily paralyzed due to a mass fraud investigation in the applications, which further took the couple’s reunion. During these years, Mario and Sofia have built a shared daily life through the WhatsApp chat. And they communicate by video call every time Sofia manages to have a good Internet connection in Caracas. Image source, Getty images Photo foot, Thousands of migrants walked to the northern border of Mexico to try to cross to US territory during the days prior to Trump’s investiture. “We have anger and frustration, it is no longer about wasting time but to lose our marriage,” Mario lamented. “I can’t take it anymore.” The couple rules … Read more

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