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A town in Toledo has tired of the squatters. So you are offering a new service to your neighbors to put them

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Escalona is A town of Castilla-La Mancha that does not usually monopolize holders beyond the regional press. For a while, however, it is usual to find news that relate it to the illegal occupation of houses. And not because there is a serious problem (which It has been). No. The reason is that City Council has undertaken A real crusade Against the Okupas, which has led him to activate a Municipal Planopen a special office, upload homes and, now, offer a Free service to the neighbors to expedite the evictions during The first 48 hours. At the moment it seems that it is not doing badly: the City Council presumes that illegal occupations have fallen more than 60%. Escalona at war. In Escalonaa municipality in the province of Toledo de 3,800 neighborsthey have declared him The war to the illegal occupation of housing. And with forcefulness. Both in fact that in 2023 (just one year after activating its ‘antiokupa plan’) the Consistory calculated that the problem had already been reduced 75% In the municipality and the number of crimes, 70%had also collapsed. Since then the Consistory has not stopped and recently insisted in the legal facilities which offers to evict homes. “There are no excuses”. The Escalona Crusade is not new. In fact, at least March 2021 can be traced, when the mayor Álvaro Gutiérrez(PSOE) sent A letter to the neighbors presenting the municipal plan against the illegal housing occupation. Your goal? Facing what, in the councilor’s opinion, is the “most difficult” challenge that faces the municipality: the squatters. “We cannot and do not want to look the other way. There are no excuses for illegal occupation,” starts. “Everyone has the right to housing, yes; but they must access it through legal instruments and social policies without harming the rights of others.” And what do you think? The plan It soon in entering into force and basically rests on three legs. The main one is the creation of a “illegal anti-exploits” municipal office, an department dedicated to offering free legal advice to the housing owners of the town, regardless of whether or not they are registered there. Its objective: to expedite the procedures and that the owners of affected houses act rapidly during the First 48 hours of occupation, which can speed considerably The eviction. With that purpose, the City Council of Escalona has created a “at risk” housing census and promotes the signing of agreements with both individuals and banks that have empty houses in the municipality. Thanks to them, the owners delegate their legal representation in the Consistory so that it can immediately denounce an illegal occupation in court. The objective is the same: shorten times and take advantage of the first 48 hours of the occupation to, In the words of the Consistorylook for the “express eviction.” Disused house, house upholstered. The second leg of the ‘Antiokupas Plan’ consists of an ordinance that forces to upholler or install special doors and windows in those homes that remain permanently empty. The measure, Gutiérrez clarified In his letter, he addresses mainly to the financial entities that have empty houses and without tenants in portfolio. “If they do not proceed in the stipulated time, the appropriate judicial file will begin so that the City Council can be carried out with the relevant judicial authorization,” The mayor warnsthat also warns of fines and sanctions for those who do not comply. And is it done? That seems. The City Council estimates that only in March 2022, with the newly activated antiokupa plan, the doors and windows of 40 homes distributed by neighborhoods and urbanizations of the town. And his intention was to continue doing it, blocking another 10 short -term buildings. In his Balance of 2023 He already spoke of more than fifty houses with the windows and doors closed to lime and song to keep the squatters away, a work that at least in some cases is done with local resources. Tightening via taxes. To prevent empty homes in the hands of banks, the ‘Antiokupa Plan’ also contemplates the creation of a tax designed for financial entities with buildings at risk. Its logic is very simple: if the owner (bank, vulture fund, etc.) refuses to install enclosures or upholster the house and neither does it allocate to social rental faces a special rate. “The first leg is to discourage the policy of fallen arms by financial entities to this serious problem with economic incentives,” The letter points out. In informing the building of buildings, the City Council in fact recalls that this is its last option. “We must remember that 100% of these homes come from financial entities, investment funds or vulture funds and that have been urged to rent to vulnerable families. The upholstered is the last resort to avoid its use for illicit purposes,” They claim from the Toledo municipality. City Hall … And something else. The third leg of the Plan relies on organizations and entities that go beyond the Consistory itself, such as the Civil Guard, the use of private security to “reinforce special operations against crime” in high season or expand the local police body with new places. And they are not the only resources of the City Council. Your plan He talks about agreements with “supply entities” to “expedite the supply cuts of illegal hooks of occupied homes.” Notarial powers. In May the local government made it easier for the owners of houses occupied to resort to justice by informing of a new municipal service, a free mediation so that any affected owner can benefit from the last legal news and empty your home in 48 hours. “The City Council offers all the owners of occupied homes assume the judicial and notarial costs if the notarial power is granted to submit the demand in the courts and thus expedite the eviction,” Inform The Consistory. “This new measure joins the plan against illegal occupations thanks to which, according to the information of the Civil Guard, … Read more

Spain goes with such delay in floating wind that its neighbors are being advanced: Morocco and Portugal

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The industry begins to get impatient. It has been almost a year since it was approved Royal Decree 962/2024designed to give the exit gun to the marine wind in Spain. However, the ministerial order that must regulate the first auction has not yet seen the light, and there is also no official calendar with the next steps. In a sector that advances to the rhythm of the wind, the lack of movement begins to weigh. Short. The Wind Business Association (AEE) and the Marine Wind Forum have joined forces to launch a overwhelming message to the government: either, investments will end in other countries. In a joint statementthey have claimed the immediate publication of the bases of the auction and a schedule that gives medium and long term visibility. While Spain is still waiting, Portugal, France or Morocco advance with defined models and concrete projects. A more complex problem. According to AEElack of advances could cost Spain to create more than 7,500 jobs in coastal areas and stop contributing more than 2,000 million euros per year to GDP. In addition, the opportunity to lead a key technology such as floating wind –in which Spain has been a pioneer with world reference prototypes– It could evaporate if a minimum local market is not established. Spain has toilet industrial capabilities, appropriate port infrastructure, demonstrated technological experience – as the first floating prototype developer of the world – and Suitable areas identified in the planning plans of the maritime space (poem). But all that, without a local market that guarantees volume and continuity, is at risk. It has been stretching. In February of this year, the Minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, announced that the Government would launch the first marine wind auction in 2025 and that an order would be published with the bases, According to the newspaper five days. Also The goal was reaffirmed to reach the 3 GW capacity installed in 2030, as established by the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC). But, today, the order has not gone to public consultation. And that is the first stone to launch any auction. From the sector, they denounce that there are no objective reasons that justify the delay and fear that the promises of auctions “in 2025” become another lost year. A wind leak. The main stumbling block is the lack of firm signs and a detailed roadmap. This has caused various companies –As AEE has warned– They are starting to divert their investments to other countries that offer greater certainty and speed. On the other hand, in neighboring countries the situation is being very different. For example, Portugal is about to define Your auction model. France has awarded Already a great project in the Mediterranean and prepares five more parks in the Vizcaya Gulf. Morocco, meanwhile, has presented A 1,000 MW project on the Atlantic coast for 2029. Meanwhile, Spain is still not a single marine kilowatt in commercial operation. Of the 278 MW of floating wind installed worldwide, according to data from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) June 2025, none is in Spain, although the country has been key in the construction of 100%exported components. In addition, the wind sector also claims that IDAE (Institute for Diversification and Saving Energy) be unlocked to modernize key infrastructure such as the ports of A Coruña, Castellón or Tarragona. Without those logistics nodes ready, the value chain weakens. The look in the Canary Islands. It has profiled as the ideal territory to launch this first pilot auction. The archipelago has a constant winda consolidated logistics chain, political and social consensus, and a high electricity generation cost that could be drastically reduced with marine wind. For AEECanary Islands is the “logical spearhead” to start the commercial development of this technology. Forecasts. The sector expects the Ministry to publish as soon as possible the public consultation for the Ministerial Order and define a clear calendar of upcoming auctions. Meanwhile, the global context does not expect. According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the offshore market grew by 10% in 2024, reaching 83.2 GW installed. Spain is still in time to occupy a prominent place in the European leadership of the floating marine wind. But the opportunity window narrows. The ads are not enough: concrete decisions, clear regulation and political will are needed. Otherwise, the country runs the risk of seeing how others assume that strategic role. And with this, lose not only investment and employment, but a key opportunity to reindustrialize the economy and advance the energy transition. Image | Unspash Xataka | In Peru, a company has had an idea to take wind energy directly to your home: turbines as a lay way

Elon Musk turned an abandoned US factory into the most powerful supercomputer in the world. Nobody thought of the neighbors

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It would be said that Elon Musk has created A perfect circle Around what until recently it was an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Memphis. There has installed Colossusthe most monstrous supercomputer on the planet to boost AI to new limits and that it defines the future of cars (of Tesla). In order for the combo, it is complete to the richest type in the world, everything is in turn fed by the megabaterías of Tesla. A Win Win For Musk’s framework, although with a problem: the neighbors. A colossus … toxic. The story brought it This week the CNN. In the summer of 2024 Musk transformed an old abandoned factory in southwest Memphis into what he himself proclaimed as “the most powerful supercomputer on the planet.” The project, promoted by its artificial intelligence company XAIpromised to turn the city into a New Technological Mecca (The so -called “Delta Digital”) with Quality jobs and dozens of millions in taxes. However, for Botxtown residents, a mostly black and impoverished community that has lived with decades with Industrial pollutionXai’s arrival has meant a déjà vu environmental: A new source of pollution settled without clear permits, with an apparent contempt for public health. A computer that consumes. To feed “Colossus”, XAI installed 35 gas turbines capable of generating Up to 420 megawattsreleasing toxic gases Nitrogen oxidesultrafine and formaldehyde particles. The problem? Who did Without licenses of air required, welcomed to a legal exemption for temporary machinery, which according to experts does not correspond to it. The area already houses 17 polluting facilities, and various studies indicate that the risk of cancer in the area quadrupple acceptable levels For the EPA. Memphis also has the higher rates of children’s hospitalizations by asthma in all Tennessee. Realities. While the mayor of Memphis, Paul Young, celebrated the transformative potential of the project and anticipated more technological investment, local leaders such as state representative Justin Pearson They have denounced have been excluded from the process. The lack of transparency adds to an obvious regulatory collapse: an installation with the power of an electric plant operating without permits in the middle of a residential neighborhood. To this we must add the most recent thermal snapshots (image below) that indicate that at least 33 of the turbines They were operational in April. Following the controversy, XAI finally requested permission for 15 of them and withdrew 12, but, as CNN counteddamage to trust is made. Promises Project defenders say that “leading standards in emissions” will be achieved, but residents see the employer repeat: Employment promises well paid that do not specify (because the reality is that the data centers use very few), while the environmental load falls on those who have less resources to defend themselves. Plus: The story of Botxtown It is not new. Already in 2021, its inhabitants achieved stop a pipeline that would cross their lands, and in 2023 they closed A sterilization plant that emitted ethylene oxide. For them, therefore, XAI is simply the last chapter of a long struggle for the right … to breathe. Innovation or regression. It is the last of the legs to be treated with the controversy. XAI installation reflects a broader national dilemma than We have counted before on the rise of artificial intelligence and its real cost. Amid the enthusiasm for turning the United States into the “Global Capital of AI” (according to New EPA Guidelines Under the government of Donald Trump), the expansion of data centers Devoradors of energy advances without a serious evaluation of its environmental implicationsespecially in vulnerable communities. The unconditional support of the Executive to Musk, one of Trump’s closest advisors, coincided with the Weakening of environmental policiesthe elimination of ecological justice programs and a rhetoric that prioritizes economic efficiency over human health. The first “stone.” The contradiction seems clear: IA is promoted as the future, but it is fed with fossil technologies of the past, generating private benefits while the risks and damage are socialized. “If innovation chains you to fossil fuels, that’s not progress,” Keshaun Pearson remembereddirector of Memphis Community Against Pollution. Thus, residents fear that what happens in Memphis is just a general essay of what could soon be replicated in similar neighborhoods throughout the country. A tireless struggle. He counted An NBC report That in Botxtown, indignation coexists with fatigue. Many, such as Sarah Gladney (respiratory and resident patient to a few km from the installation), feel they live in a perpetual battle. The possibility of a second meginstalization of XAI, already projected in the city, only increases the sensation of siege. “It seems that we are always at war,” He underlined. A paradox, since while local officials speak of economic transformation, neighbors simply speak of survival. In the background, the collision between the promises of peak technology and the old reality of systemic pollution raises an uncomfortable question: Who pays the price of this digital revolution? In the southwest Memphis, the answer seems sadly clear. 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What neighbors and tourists do not live in the same buildings

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In Spain, for a long time, talking about housing is doing it upward prices and a pressure increasing For the pocket of families. Especially in big cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona either Malagawhere drawing is further complicated by The pressure that exercises tourist rent in the market. To tackle that challenge the capital has just endowed with A new tool: A plan that aspires to decentralize tourist floors, favor that they leave residential buildings and prevent commercial lows from being converted into vacation floors. The question is … how will theory go from the facts? What happened? That Madrid has just been equipped with which from now on will be its new roadmap to face one of its greatest challenges: the Tourist and Its impact in the housing market. The municipal plenary approved Wednesday, in a anger session And with the solo votes of the PP, the Plan residesthat marks a series of guidelines on where and how tourist floors can be opened from now on. From the outset, its key idea is very simple: the holiday rental will go on the one hand and the residential use for another, so that both uses do not match in the buildings of the center. Click on the image to go to Tweet. What does the plan propose? To understand it before, you have to keep in mind a key: the plan divides the capital into two. On the one hand is the central almond, The most pressured For the floors for tourists and therefore the one that most affected sees its residential market. And on the other is the outer zone, located outside the historic center. The difference is important because each area is regulated differently. It also simplifies the Special Host Plan Previous, 2019, which works on a map with three “rings”. The changes of greater draft will be given in the first circle, that of the central almond of Madrid. The main one is that the City Council wants that from now on in that area the tourist floors will go on the one hand and those of traditional homes on the other. The plan resides expressly prohibits “dispersed tourist floors in residential buildings”, even on low floors. In short, they will not share building in the center. In the blocks that are not destined for residential use, the thing is different. In those cases, tourist floors “without limitations” will be admitted. Are there more news? Yes. The main one is that tourist apartments must concentrate on blocks that are dedicated exclusively to that purpose (I would not affect to the floors that already exist and have a license), but the plan resides includes more novelties. The previous norm, of 2019, allowed convert low floors In tourist apartments, which has led many center stores dedicating themselves to that use, much more profitable than commercial. The City Council Calculate that only between 2015 and 2024 have been converted into homes and tourist floors 3,306 bass. The new municipal plan wants to end that trend. “With the plan resides, the transformation of commercial premises into tourist floors in the historic center and the transformation of premises into homes into the main tertiary roads is not allowed,” They point From the town hall, which requires that outside the historic center there will also be streets and avenues in which the reconversion of premises will be restricted in apartments for holiday rental. And what about the offer? The idea of ​​the plan is to concentrate the tourist offer in blocks dedicated to that purpose, “decentralize” the activity and take it to areas tertiarywhere the impact on homes is therefore lower. Another of its objectives is to “recover and increase” the supply of residential housing in the city center. For that purpose preside includes some strategies to recover buildings now in disuse. For example, it will allow “private, cataloging and obsolete” giving equipment “to affordable rental housing or Coliving as long as its restoration is guaranteed. The City Council estimates that the measure could benefit 210 buildings distributed throughout the city center. The plan will also allow to pass residential buildings classified and located outside commercial areas to tourist use, but with a small print: “only use can be changed for 15 years, with a direct license linked to the rehabilitation and restoration of the building.” “Subsequently, it will return to residential use”, duck. And beyond the center of Madrid? The main change affects the historic center of Madrid, where the City Council will cease to grant licenses for dispersed tourist floors in residential buildings; But the Plan resides It also includes some novelties that affect the neighborhoods located outside that central almond. The most important is that the municipal permits for tourist rental will be granted only to the floors that meet certain characteristics. “Outside the historic center, the City Council allows the implementation of tourist floors under current conditions in both complete buildings and in dispersed homes that live with residential use,” details the Consistory. “In the latter case, the obligation that these tourist floors have independent access on the first floor and ground floor is included as a novelty.” Does plan reside or speculate? Despite the optimism of the government, not everyone believes that the plan will serve to “order” the supply of tourist rental and reduce the pressure it has been exerting on the housing market for years. On the contrary. The opposition already He has warned of the risk that the new regulations end up having a fairly different effect: that buildings in the center of Madrid that are now residential end up converted into blocks of tourist floors. In fact, more Madrid has even renowned the plan: instead of “resides” he speaks of “expels.” Similar notice gave the PSOE, worried that the new plan further worsen the radiography of tourist rent in Madrid. His fear is that, instead of supporting basically in particular That they buy floors with their savings to lease them to tourists and achieve … Read more

has also caused the anger of neighbors, according to NYT

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A metal fence 4.8 meters high and a door with security camera. That was the spark of a legal dispute that involves a property of West Lake Hills, an exclusive residential area on the outskirts of Austin, Texas. The house is linked to Elon Musk, According to information obtained by The New York Timesalthough it appears in the name of a limited society called Stratford House LLC. A property in the spotlight. The property was acquired in 2022 by this society and since then has been in the center of an urban controversy. According to municipal records, the structures were built without the required permits, contravening the local code. The case was discussed on April 16 in a session of the Zoning and Planning Commission, whose public act includes all the details. The Commission voted against granting the requested exceptions and the matter will now go to the City Council, at a meeting scheduled for June 11, after the applicant asked for a postponement. The before and after, captured by Street View. Google Street View images help visually draw the change. In a capture taken in 2018, the area appears without visible security elements. There is no metal door or closed structures, and in the background you can see a partially exposed building, as well as two vehicles parked on an open platform. View from Street View from an area close to the housing related to Elon Musk: before the reforms (2018) and then (2024) However, in the view corresponding to 2024, the environment has changed substantially. The entrance has been replaced by a metal door, accompanied by at least one visible surveillance chamber. In another capture you can see an imposing wooden door that did not exist in previous records. These transformations would have been carried out without municipal permission. View from Street View from an area close to the housing related to Elon Musk: before the reforms (2018) and then (2024) A story that has changed. All this contrasts with the image that Musk projected in 2021, When he said he lived in a prefabricated house in Boca Chicarented to Spacex, and that the only house of its property was a home for events in the San Francisco area. However, the aforementioned media maintains that the businessman has added at least three mansions in recent yearsamong them this controversial residence. The interior of the prefabricated booth in Boca Chica Beyond an urban issue. The controversy has also revolved around the privacy of the process. According to Correos obtained by the American newspaper, representatives of the alleged owner tried to persuade local authorities to keep the case secret. They argued that, due to their relationship with the Donald Trump government, it should be considered a “federal public official” and that both records and communications with the city were exempt from transparency laws. The city lawyer rejected the petition, protecting himself in the Texas Open Meetings Law. An additional request signed by lawyer Inna Kplun was also dismissed, in which he claimed that the presence of armed security personnel, including federal sheriffs, justified to deal with the matter outside the public scrutiny. The day everything came to light. As Kxan points outDuring the April 16 hearing, the owner’s representatives submitted six exception requests to the Municipal Code, including the five -meter high fence. They recognized that the structures were installed without permission in 2022, when the house was bought. Several neighbors expressed their rejection. The process is still open. But what began as a series of discreet reforms in a property associated with the employer has ended up becoming a public issue, exposed to detail in acts, internal emails and official documents. All in one of the most exclusive areas of Texas, where privacy also has its limits. Images | USAFA | Screen capture Google Street View | Elon Musk In Xataka | The best paid CEO in the US is not in Apple or Tesla. It is a complete stranger of a company that you had not heard

For decades Madrid was a demographic vacuum for Valladolid. Now it is Valladolid who takes away neighbors

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For a simple matter of work, For decades Many Valladolid had no choice but to make their bags and move to Madrid. There are the companies. And good professional perspectives. Today things are different, how they reveal The latest data of the Castellanoleon City Council. The Telework expansion and the Communications improvement He has allowed not a few Pucelanos to return to his city without giving up his jobs in the capital and even turn the demographic tortilla: now it is Valladolid that grows at the expense of Madrid. The data are of course eloquent. What do the figures say? That for years the Castellanoleonese city endured a migratory balance with the clearly negative capital. Many more Pucelanos went to Madrid than Madrid arrived in Valladolid. If it follows The historical series From the municipal census it is proven that this favorable imbalance to Madrid dates back to at least 1997, with years in which the difference was brutal: in 2014, for example, Valladolid scored 736 casualties of Pucelans who made the bags to move to Madrid; The reverse tour (from Valladolid to Madrid) did only 305 people. And is it like that? No. And that is the novelty. We know the change thanks to An analysis of The confidentialwhich has had access to updated data from the Valladolid City Council. They show how between 2022 and 2023 the migratory balance between the cities of Valladolid and Madrid experienced a turning point: if in 2022 the Pucelana city registered 799 casualties of neighbors to Madrid destination in front of 617 high in the opposite direction, in 2023 the photo was the opposite: it computed 765 high and 566 casualties. From the red numbers he went to a positive balance of 199 people with Madrid. The trend was confirmed in 2024 with a new positive migratory balance. The Pucelano City Council scored 796 high from Madrid compared to 504 casualties from neighbors who moved to the state capital. Again a positive balance, of 292 people. In a matter of only two years Valladolid has therefore gone to drag a historical deficit in the exchange of population with Madrid to “win” 491 new registered at the expense of its southern neighbor. That trend has coincided with the general growth of the Valladolid register, which has been gaining population for several years and is now located in 303,843 inhabitants according to The municipal censusthat It does not always coincide with that of the INE. Is there more data? Yes. The general “picture” can be completed with more brushstrokes that help to understand the change. The turn in the migratory flow has also been found in the whole of the Madrid region, not only in its capital. After decades, moving in “Red Numbers” (in demographic terms), in 2023 Valladolid registered higher from new residents from the Madrid community than Low of Pucelanos who had moved to municipalities such as Móstoles, Alcalá de Henares, Leganés, Fuenlabrada, Getafe or Madrid itself. Between 2023 and 2024 in that sense a positive balance of 758 new registered. At the end of 2024 The North of Castile I already pointed the change of tendency citing the statistics of the INE, although in its article it managed data until 2023 and provincial level, not exclusively of the municipality of Valladolid. What did they show? Something similar to what the Pucelano City Council register reflects. In 2023 they arrived at the Valladolid set 1,785 from the Community of Madrid, while they left the province 1,270 person to settle at some point in Madrid. Result: a positive balance of 515 people for Valladolid. It is not bad if one takes into account that the previous year (2022) the province had lost 115 people in favor of the Community of Madrid. And what is the reason? Rather, we should talk about reasons, in the plural. When analyzing the change in trend there are those who speak of The expansion of teleworking After the pandemic or attractiveness of the Valladolid real estate market in front of the Madrid, which makes the purchase of housing much more assumed there than in Madrid. According to Idealista, the square meter costs in Valladolid 1,832 euros while in Madrid it is located in 5,467. Something similar occurs in the rental market: in the Pucelana city, the M2 regrets average to 8.9 euros in front of the 21.4that Madrid charges. But … why this abrupt change? While it is true that COVID-19 marked a before and after in the implementation of teleworking in Spain and that the real estate market He has not stopped tense In recent years, both trends have not explained why the population flow between Valladolid and Madrid has experienced such a sharp change in such a short time. Nor why it has been accentuated in 2023. Hence, when the analysis of the phenomenon adds another determining factor: the improvement of transport between Valladolid and the Community of Madrid. At the end of 2007 The line was released High speed Madrid-Segovia-Valladolid, which made it possible to arrive from Valladolid to Madrid in less than 60 minutes, instead of the more than two hours that it has the same route by car. Since then the service It has improved In medium distance services until, today, A wide grill of frequencies in birds Ave, Avant, MD, Alvia or Avlo capable of going from Valladolid to Chamartín in 54 minutes. The key in recent years has been nevertheless another: the price. What has changed? In 2019, take the train daily to go to Madrid from Valladolid demanded to disburse hundreds of euros Every month. Today the situation is different. Regular users have benefited from Free bonds MD and a 50% discount For recurring travelers of the Avant trains. In January The Council of Ministers agreed to maintain at least until June 30 the direct aid to the transport of travelers for frequent customers of nearby, rodalies and conventional MD, with “free fertilizers”. The Avant offers a 50% reduction … Read more

The millions of tourists receiving Rome are uploading the price of the carbonara. And the neighbors have tired

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In Italy La Carbonara it’s a Gastronomic emblem. Now also a symbol against Tourist massification. Before the perspective that Rome is filled this year of millions of visitors attracted to the 2025 jubilee and that this avalanche triggers (even more) the prices of certain services, such as the menus of the treatments, An association of consumers has proposed to institutions and hoteliers to seal a ‘carbonara pact’ that guarantees that they will apply “fair” rates To the dishes. And they have a figure in mind: 12 euros. A figure: 35 million. Rome is a enormous gigantic tourist destination. Probably one of the largest on the planet. That is no novelty. Your City Council Calculate that last year he received 51.4 million visitors, a historical record that leads local authorities to refer to its city as “the capital of tourism” (capital letters are yours). A new element will be added to that interest in the eternal city: the 2025 jubilee, an appointment that according to the Italian Ministry of Tourism will attract More than 35 million of visitors. And how will it affect prices? That is the question that was asked A few months ago Consumerismo no Profit, an association of consumer -based consumer. In An open letter Its president, Luigi Gabriele, recalls the forecasts of visitors to the jubilee and shows his concern to the perspective that this tide of tourists and pilgrims raises prices in the shops and restaurants of the capital. It is not a minor issue if one takes into account that in March the Year -on -year IPC of non -alcoholic foods and drinks was in Italy of 2.6%. “It is undeniable that the increase in demand for goods and services determined by the jubilee runs the risk of provoking deep changes in current price lists, some of which are already underway, taking companies in the area to maximize their profits in 2025,” says Gabriele in Your letterin which he warns of the damage to the image of Rome and the impact for the pockets of both foreign visitors and residents. Objective: Dishes at “righteous” prices. To avoid the association proposed to late 2024 Address the issue at a round table in which both administrations and consumers and businessmen participated. The objective: set a “controlled” or “fair” price for certain typical dishes that have become an emblem of Italian cuisine. Which is it? Gabriele quotes the pasta to the Amatrician and the Carbonara, which “are among the most consumed by tourists.” For that reason, insiststhey are the ones that run the greatest risk of becoming more expensive in 2025. “Our proposal is to define a ‘fair price’ for those dishes, shared with trade associations, recognizing with a special seal or logo those premises who decide to join the initiative,” raises Consumerism not profit. The idea was well received by the City Council, As needed The repubblicaand resulted in what is now known as ‘Carbonara Pact’a “voluntary agreement” for which certain establishments undertake to charge their clients reasonable rates. But … What is reasonable? That is the key. Consumerism does not go into details or Your letter nor in The section of its website dedicated to the ‘Patto della Carbonara’, but over the last months of the Italian press and Foreign It has repeated a figure: 12 euros, a sum for which carbonara pasta dishes could be found in restaurants in the center at the end of 2024, remember Corriere della will. It is not sought that the price drops. But he wants to avoid being shot. “Overcome 11 or 12 euros is not fair for the client. It loses the identity of what Roman cuisine is, which is the dish itself and what it wants to represent,” Explain to The country The owner of a place in Rome. The reasoning is very simple. The defenders of the measure They estimate That preparing a carbonara paste dish is relatively cheap, so taking into account raw materials could be charged for 6.5 euros. To that amount add other extra costs until reaching 12 euros, a price that in its opinion already includes the “margins”. And has it served? One thing is the theory. Another very different facts. Although consumerismo is He has committed To identify the businesses that have been assigned to the ‘Carbonara Pact’ and invites customers has denounced those who do not respect it, there are those who look at the initiative with skepticism. Marina García, journalist and correspondent in Rome, I recently recognized to The country that the pact has not worked too much. “It serves more to open a tourism debate than to have a real impact,” he adds. There are those who, after probe the city’s businesses, He found himself A few months ago, prices already ranged between 12.5 and 19 euros. Or even who speaks that in just a few years the dish has shot from eight to 16 euros. For now, what the agreement has helped is to influence the effect that massive tourism has on a day -to -day basis (And the pocket) of the population, a debate that has occurred in other parts from Italy (Venice, for example) and whom Spain It is not foreign. 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In Jaén the neighbors are also protesting against renewable projects

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The latest forecasts on renewable energy production They have placed To Spain as a great power in Europe. However, the growth of clean sources is not distributed uniformly, letting a large part of the projects concentrate in rural areas. Now, the voices of the protest do not stop growing. The claim. The massive installation of solar plants in Jaén has reached courts to stop the projects in Lopera, Arjona and Marmolejo. The neighbors and farmers, united on the “Campiña Norte platform against the solar megaplants”, They have denounced The environmental and economic impact of the solar installation. In addition, they have warned that they will cause the felling of more than 100,000 olive trees. A problem for the entire community. The growth of renewables in Andalusia It is drivenamong other factors, due to its weather conditions, making it suitable for The installation of solar panels. It also has various points for Green hydrogen extractionbecoming a favorable place to renewables. Also, the Junta de Andalucía has declared public utility Multiple renewable generation projects, dismissing allegations of those affected and advancing with forced expropriations to facilitate the installation of these infrastructure. Symptom of something greater. This phenomenon is not exclusive to Andalusia, since it is a trend that has traveled the entire peninsula. Starting with the teacher, where various communities They have shown His rejection of the proliferation of wind farms, passing through Galicia, where the Superior Court of Xustiza has intervened on multiple occasions in conflicts related to the installation of wind turbines. In fact, the motto “Renewable yes, but not” It has become the cry of a growing movement in rural areas (groups with more than 152 organizations), which, although it does not oppose the energy transition, does require a balanced and respectful development of the territory. Some produce, others consume. The conflict too shows the gap between the energy producing areas and the large urban nuclei that consume it. On the one hand, the autonomous communities such as Aragon, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha or Castilla y León that They are supporting Most of the renewable electricity generation in Spain. On the other hand, the big cities like Madrid that They consume large quantities of energy and almost do not contribute to the electrical system. This asymmetry reinforces the perception in the rural world that renewable development does not translate into direct progress for its communities, but in a negative externalality imposed by the energy needs of the cities. But and any solution for the field? The big question is whether there are alternatives to advance the energy transition without sacrificing agricultural or protected land. The answer is that yes and it is with the combination of both: The agrovoltaic. In the specific case of Jaén a study has found a solution To distribute the olive grove between panels solar panels, minimizing the impact of photovoltaic shadow on the growth of olive trees. In fact, there are many studies that have shed light on the installation of solar energy in crop fields, and have demonstrated how the shadow can be beneficial for the vegetation, A honey farm, Tomato cultivation And even to wool quality. Image | E. Crespo and Pexels Xataka | Forget the industrial revolution: the fastest energy change in human history is happening now

An Ibiza cliff had become a magnet of tourists. The neighbors have decided to close it unilaterally

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Not long ago the authorities of Fujikawaguchiko, a popular tourist destination located southwest of Tokyo, took A radical decision: tired of seeing how visitors They appealed in one of its most popular viewpoints to get selfies With Mount Fuji in the background, hindering traffic and dirtying the street, they chose to install a large fence that covered the Fuji. Over view, it was a problem. Between Fujikawaguchiko and Ibiza there are about 10,600 km, but the Balearic island has been found in a similar problem: the enormous popularity of its most iconic viewpoint among tourists has led the owners of the land to take action. They have not managed to install an XXL screen to cover the views as in Japan, but They have managed to limit the intense flow of visitors and vehicles. A name: is Vedrà. What Ibiza is A popular destination Among tourists is no novelty. Only last year they visited the whole of the Pitiusas more than 3.6 million of people. Within the island, however, there are specially busy points, such as “The Mirador de Es Vedrà”, a set of Cap Blanc plots and is Savinar, that have become greatly famous for their paradisiacal views. Tourists visit him in mass, attracted by the photos they see in networks or even in promotional videos of the Balearic Islands. And that translates, remember Nou Diariin a chaos of cars, garbage, feces, picnics and even commercial activities ranging from the sale of drinks to DJ performances or even wedding celebration. The problem is that plots have two peculiarities. One, they are protected. Two are private. And its owner are fed up after years of tourist avalanche. And what have they done? Take action. Throughout the last weeks The press regional realizes How the owners of the lots, tired of the avalanche of tourists and their effects, have decided to cut for the healthy. And that translates into blocking access to private lands that were being used as parking with large rocks and veto the passage of visitors to the viewpoint and the Torre des Savinaranother popular destination among visitors. It is not just that they can no longer park in the area. Access to the esplanade is not allowed in which thousands of tourists are looking for the Selfie Dream, no matter if they do it in their private cars or move in a taxi. “The neighbors are a little fed up”. The result is The closure of access to the main parking lot of Cala d´hort with permission from the City Council and Access on foot In S´era Des Mateart, the most crowded viewpoint during the sunsets. “Of course, the neighbors are a little fed up that their property is being used in a way, I would say, a little wild,” Explain to Ibiza Diario Mayor Vicent Roig, who also recognizes that given the “deterioration” of the tower DESAVINAR and other spaces was “necessary to stop the access volume.” “It has become a greater evil “. One of the neighbors was even more overwhelming when telling Nou Diari How the area has reached its current state. “A property asked the City Council to legalize the land as parking, but it has not been granted and closed, while the rest have tired of allowing it,” regrets. “It was about preventing people from parking on the road as a minor evil, but it has become a greater evil because now it appears not only in parking lots, but also on the road.” There is no lack of criticism Nor to the advertising that the viewpoint has been given, not only in networks, where it has starred Some viral videobut on the part of the agents that have been responsible for promoting Ibiza at national and international tourism and international shop windows in the sector. “It should never have become the farm of the photo”, Underline at eldiario.es An owner before remembering that the situation is not new. “We have been denouncing the Consell, City Council, Government and Civil Guard.” And now what? That is the question that remains by driving. What to do with the flow of tourists looking for the Selfie Or the dump photo that have seen thousands of times in networks? Roig admits that in the face of summer he wants to find “a solution”, at least provisional. The idea is to “reduce pressure”, for which hand is working with natural spaces. The challenge is not simple: after “broken” the barrier that prevents the passage of cars towards S´ra des Maraet, the City Council has had to reinforce it. About the table is The possibility to open a regulated and payment parking. The local press too pointsThe idea of ​​setting an area as a “official” viewpoint, near the beach and with services such as bathrooms. “We will try to regulate the flows, which is our mission as a town hall,” Roig progress: “You have to have very clear the limits of how far you can go and we work to distribute these flows.” Images | David Holderbach (Flickr) and Jordi NLL (Flickr) In Xataka | In Ibiza there are those who are leaving their homes in high season to move to caravans. The reason: rent them to tourists

In the war between communities of neighbors and tourist floors there is a key date, on April 3. And favors the first

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With the influx of tourists in Historic maximumsthe residential market Tensioning and the price of housing climbing until Nourish With those of the brick bubble, administrations have launched themselves to regulate tourist floors. In Madrid, Barcelona either Valencia The municipalities have moved file to put limits and in Seville they have even considered ending the illegal offer by closing the tap. Literally. From April 3 who want to devote themselves to holiday rental will have to deal with a new challenge: neighborhood communities. If until now they were the ones that suffered the most tourist floors, they are about to become the opposite: a way to stop their proliferation. What happened? That on April 3 a change of the Horizontal Property Law which will fully affect the relationship between neighbors communities and tour floors. And it will also do so in favor of the former, expanding its margin to stop the proliferation of vacation rentals. Legal change is included in the Organic Law 1/2025a rule published in the BOE earlier this year, but which has a period of three months to enter into force. What does the law say? Basically it establishes that anyone who wants to rent their apartment to tourists must get permission from most of its neighbors. And what is more important, has to have that collective ‘ok’ before leasing the floor. “You must previously obtain the express approval of the community of owners”, Clarify the new standardwhich also specifies that the decision must be made with a broad support of the three fifths of the owners. Wasn’t it so far? The legal change gives more tools to neighbors communities when limiting tourist rentals within their block, but that does not mean that until now they have had their hands tied. On the contrary. He Royal Decree 7/2019which entered into force six years ago, already provided that the communities could “limit or condition” the holiday rentals in the building if the three fifths of the owners agreed so. And can they report? Yes. Now the law goes a step further. It speaks of the need to obtain “previously the express approval” of the community and pronounced on the margin of maneuver that the neighbors have, even about the possibility of denouncing in case they detect a rented floor without their placet. “The president of the community, on his own initiative or of any of the owners or occupants, will require those who carry out the activity, without expressly approved, the immediate cessation of the same, under the warning of initiating the judicial actions,” indicates the law published in January. Does it have retroactive effect? No, the legal change will not have retroactive effect on the apartments that are rented respecting the norms. The text Published in January it is quite clear about it: “That owner of a house that is exercising the activity prior to the entry into force of the law, which has previously been accepted to the tourist sector regulations, may continue to exercise the activity with the conditions and deadlines established in it. “ The new law also echoed another of the powers that communities have and appeared already reflected in The 2019 decree: The whole of the neighbors may apply to the owners of tourist floors a “special quota” or “an increase in the participation of the common expenses of the house”. Of course, that increase should never exceed 20% and the decision must also be endorsed by a lazy majority of the three fifths of the owners. Is it a novelty? It is a novelty the entry into force of the law on April 3, but probably caught by surprise a few owners of flats and communities of neighboring. And not only because the regulations have been published in the BOE January 3. The government had been looking for the way to “empower” the neighbors in the face of the proliferation of vacation rentals and months ago he acknowledged that one of the ideas he had in mind was to give communities a veto power. “What we want is that the authorization of the neighbors be necessary, with a major I advanced In July, Minister Carlos Body in RNE. Images | Stay Grouted (Flickr) and Tomáš Gal (Unspash) In Xataka | In Spain, floors are being rented as tourist accommodations without a license. Now also elderly residences

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