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so you can transport it to avoid sanctions

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Pets take up more and more space in our daily lives and, for many people, that also includes traveling by car. Taking the dog on an excursion, to a family member’s house or simply to the vet is part of the routine of thousands of drivers. The problem arises when this seemingly innocent gesture becomes a risk on the road and, furthermore, a possible traffic violation. In Mexico City, transporting an uncontrolled dog inside the vehicle can not only compromise driving safety, it can also be expensive. Why do we talk about fines. If in recent days there has been talk of fines for traveling with dogs in the car, it is not so much because a new rule has appeared, but because the amount in pesos changes over time. Many violations are calculated based on the Unit of Measurement and Update (UMA)an economic reference that is reviewed every year by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). For 2026, the daily UMA was set at 117.31 pesos and began to be applied on February 1. This adjustment automatically updates the cost of sanctions that were already provided for in the capital’s regulations. What the rules say about traveling with pets. The reference is in the article 38 of the Mexico City Traffic Regulations. This section regulates various behaviors that can interfere with driving, including the way animals are transported inside the vehicle. The text establishes that the person behind the wheel must not “hold, carry or place people or animals between their arms and legs.” According to the regulation, this situation can limit the driver’s movements and obstruct part of the visibility towards the road, two factors that increase the risk while driving. The fine and administrative penalty. The regulation also establishes the consequences for anyone who engages in this behavior. The penalty is calculated in a range of 10 to 20 times the current UMA, which with the value of 2026 is equivalent to approximately between 1,173 and 2,346 pesos. In addition to the payment, the violation implies three points less on the driver’s license. And, in the sections applicable to this case, the regulation also includes a point for vehicle registration, an additional penalty that should be taken into account. How to take the dog in the car without exposing yourself to a violation. The aforementioned official text does not prohibit traveling with pets, but it does require that they do not interfere with driving, so the objective is to prevent the animal from moving freely inside the vehicle. In Motorpasión México they explain A common option is to place it in the back seat with a breastplate or harness attached to the car. The idea is simple: keep the dog in a stable position and reduce the possibility of it ending up moving towards the handler’s area. The carrier alternative for traveling with pets. In addition to using a harness in the back seat, another recommended option is to use a pet carrier. Experts cited by UNAM Global point out These systems must be rigid, have good ventilation and have the appropriate size so that the animal can move with some comfort within its space. When the dog is used to this type of transport, the carrier can be an effective solution to keep it in a delimited area inside the car. In the end, the key is not whether or not the dog can travel in the car, but how it does so. As we can see, the Mexico City Traffic Regulations establish limits when their presence can interfere with driving. Following these recommendations helps to comply with this standard and reduces risks during the journey. Images | Blaire Harmon | Sandra Gabriel In Xataka | After 16 years, Mexico has managed to get a millionaire to pay his taxes. And they are going to use them to help young people

US sanctions are collapsing China’s factories. It’s bad news for the rest of the world

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The US has intensified in recent years its tariff policy against China. Under the shield of “national security reasons,” the Trump administration has attempted to isolate China from essential components to create cutting-edge technology. The play didn’t go too welland China is at its best moment of national production. So much so that the capacity of its factories is reaching the limit. There are those who warned. Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel, warned at the beginning of February in his statements. He pointed out that the US blockade is only achieving the opposite effect, driving giants like Huawei to develop silently and accelerating the race for China to obtain the capacity to make three nanometer chips. SMIC confirmed it. He SMIC report corresponding to the fourth quarter of 2025 is a perfect summary of China’s efforts to one day end up leading the semiconductor race. China doesn’t just want to make chips for mobile phones: it wants to dominate the semiconductors that support AI, cars, telecommunications, industry, energy and defense: because whoever controls these chips controls technological power. The key data. That SMIC’s profits have grown by 39% in the last year is quite revealing, but that the capacity of its factories has risen to 93.5% is even more so. In other words, the Chinese company is practically at the limit of its production capacity, having to satisfy the demanding demands of both the government and local companies. How does this affect me?. Among the key sectors that China wants to lead is AI. And this one needs many, many chips. So much so that SMIC has warned that the demand for them is being so enormous that the rest of the consumer electronics orders are being compromised. This ends up translating into delays in supply, price increases and something that we have been warning about for months: basic components such as RAM, SSD memories and so on. They are going to be more expensive than ever. Without help from anyone. China, without access to ASML’s most advanced machines, is achieving alternative routes for your manufacturing processes. Although some of its manufacturers are still in collaboration with giants like TSMC (case of Xiaomi with “its” XRing 01 chip, manufactured by TSCM in 3nm), the plan is to be completely self-sufficient. Something that they will end up achieving, sooner or later. In Xataka |

The DGT sold us a “reasonable period without sanctions” for the V-16 beacons. The fines are already coming

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Unwritten agreements have a problem: nothing is written. It seems silly but it is more than obvious. When there is talk of a “reasonable period” or “being flexible” but nothing is signed, the truth is that there are reasons to be suspicious. Because nothing and no one prevents breaking that supposed agreement with which all parties agree. Or if not, tell those who have been fined for not having the V-16 beacons. They are already fining. This is what they assure from Pyramid Consulting. This consultancy, specialized in appealing traffic fines, already indicates that its offices have received a penalty because a driver did not have the V-16 light to signal a dangerous situation. The penalty is 80 euros, as we already had in Xatakaand it reads that the reason for the sanction is “not having the corresponding V-16 regulatory sign installed on the vehicle.” The penalty was imposed on January 6, Three Kings’ Day, and the gift will be a financial penalty of 40 euros if the driver accepts prompt payment. “A reasonable period”. Penalizing a driver on January 6, 2026 for not having a V-16 beacon raises blisters among drivers. And Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Minister of the Interior, and Pere Navarro, director of the DGT, were faced with a pool full of contradictions and decided to jump into it headlong. In December 2025, faced with the prospect that drivers were not going to have the V-16 beacon on time, the DGT already announced that there would be no extensions in the application of the measure because, in their words, there would be no point in delaying it to the summer of 2026 since the situation would be exactly the same. Of course, they indicated that they had considered delaying it. However, that same month of December, the director of the DGT himself indicated that agents “will be flexible” so fines were not expected, at least, in the first days. They talked about “consolidating this issue” without having to deal with a barrage of fines. On January 8, Grande-Marlaska defended that the beacon was not tax collection, that “information would take precedence over the sanction” and that fines would not be imposed. a “reasonable” period of time. By then, Pyramid Consulting’s client had already been sanctioned. They think they are right. From the consultancy they assure that they are going to appeal the fine. The reasons they allege are that articles 9 and 103 of the Spanish Constitution specify that the Administration must guarantee the legal security of citizens. And they point out that the Administration’s actions must comply with and be: Foreseeable Transparent Consistent Adjusted to good faith They assure that Grande-Marlaska’s statements, in which it was suggested that the agents would not sanction “in a reasonable period of time,” invalidates the sanction and generates legal uncertainty for the citizen since a safeguard message is sent that in the end has not been fulfilled. The contradictions. The problem here is that those responsible for the Ministry of the Interior and the DGT sent messages that contradicted what is stated in the law. Both assured that there would be no fine for not having the beacon and not using it but, at the same time, they neither offered a specific time period nor was any type of order approved in which this was reflected. This left it up to the agents how to act. And if they considered that a car was not correctly signaling its position, there were sufficient reasons to sanction it, according to the approved regulations. And although the DGT’s public message was in the direction of not fining, the agents themselves have recognized that they have no order to act in this way. Photo | DGT and Pyramid Consulting In Xataka | The V-16 beacon has many problems: the manufacturer turning off its servers and leaving you offline is not one of them

Russia had managed to manufacture drones and missiles despite the sanctions. So selling Zara clothes was a matter of time

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In recent months, a strange wave of western products has begun to reappear in places where, on paper, it is already they shouldn’t exist. Between geopolitical changes, forced business exits and an increasingly opaque market, certain brands have unexpectedly become visible again, fueling rumors, theories about how they are getting there and who is really pulling the strings of their distribution towards Moscow. Now a giant from Spain has (re)appeared: Inditex. A market that does not close completely. After announcing the end of operations in Russia a few days after the invasion of Ukraine, Inditex left behind its second largest market and sold its business in the country. However, more than two years latergarments with official labels from brands such as Zara, Bershka, Oysho, Stradivarius or Massimo Dutti have once again appeared on the shelves of the Russian channel Tvoenow renamed Tvoe n Ko, which boasts a “constantly updated” selection on social networks and presents the collections as almost clandestine finds. The pieces, which match models from previous seasons and carry prices in euros, are now sold in at least 19 stores Russian companies without there being (according to the official version offered) any contractual relationship between the Spanish company and the local distributor. In fact, they occur two months after the executive director of Inditex, Óscar García Maceiras, will declare to the Financial Times that the conditions “were not met” for his return to Russia. The engineering of the Russian gray market. I was counting a few hours ago the FT that the mechanism that allows the reappearance of these garments is based on the system of “parallel imports” established by Moscow to circumvent the massive departures of Western brands. In this scheme operates Disco Club LLCa Russian company that has recorded 18 statements in accordance, citing Inditex as supplier and presenting itself as its “authorized representative”, despite the fact that Inditex flatly denies having granted such permission. The garments come partly from inventories originally destined for various EU countries and partly from Chinese factories, according to labels and documents customs, in a circuit that takes advantage of legal loopholes and the Kremlin’s lack of inhibition to give formal coverage to a trade that would previously have been considered smuggling. The denial. For its part, Tvoe assures that it does not have direct agreements with Inditex and hides behind confidentiality agreements so as not to detail its suppliers, while Disco Club insist in which he only performed a “punctual technical service.” Burkhard Binder, the businessman linked to the founding of the company and based in Dubai, is disassociating himself from current operations. Inditex, known for its tight control of inventory, distribution and franchises, completely reject any link: he claims not to have authorized Disco Club or any Russian entity to act on his behalf and avoids commenting on how his products arrive in the country since he withdrew. Matter of time. we have been counting: the ability of the Russian economy to adapt in the midst of war has shown that international restrictions, no matter how strict, always find cracks. A country that has rebuilt chains complex supply chains to produce drones, precision ammunition or long-range missiles, despite technological embargoes and industrial vetoes, would not have difficulties reopening the door to much more “simpler” products, such as Western fashion clothing. In that context, the reappearance of garments of Zara in Russian stores is not so much surprising as confirming a trend: Moscow has perfected an ecosystem of parallel imports capable of circumventing almost any blockade, from military components even t-shirts and dresses from past seasons, turning the impossible into routine and the forbidden into a merely logistical problem. Russia, a laboratory of consumption in times of sanctions. The appearance of Zara products in Russia despite the exit from the company illustrates the magnitude of the gray market that Moscow has made official since 2022: an ecosystem that allows consumers to access Western brands through private intermediaries and indirect routes, without participation of the original companies. In this context, the reappearance of the Spanish firm in the Russian commercial landscape is not due to a business return, but rather to a state-run mechanism. commercial evasion that turns its garments into parallel import merchandise. If you like, the phenomenon also reveals the extent to which Russia has rebuilt its global consumption through third countries and front companies, and how even the strictest groups in controlling its supply chain cannot prevent its products from reappearing in a market from which they tried to leave definitely. Image | Pexels In Xataka | Ukraine has opened the Russian ballistic missile that has devastated its cities. Your surprise is a condemnation: your main supplier is untouchable In Xataka | Zara has been selling clothes for years. Now he aspires to sell something more difficult: prestige

China has shielded its space station against embargoes and sanctions. The key is how it has built it

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When Yang Liwei became The first Chinese astronaut in 2003The United States and Russia – bypassing the advances of the former Soviet Union – already accumulated decades of experience and more than fifty manned missions. In just over twenty years, that gap has been reduced by leaps and bounds. Of a modest debut, China has become humans to space, Mars And finally, To raise your own space station. A project that points to self -sufficiency with its own technology In Beijing they do not hesitate to show off technological independence. Yang Hong, chief engineer of the space station system, summed it up in June this year: “The central technologies of the Chinese Space Station have intellectual property totally independentand all its components are of national manufacture. ” The statement is ambitious: an orbital laboratory raised without resorting to foreign licenses, with all its critical systems designed and produced in China. To understand how China has come to raise its own space station, it is convenient to go back to 2011. That year, the US Congress approved the call Wolf amendment, a provision that prevents NASA and some federal offices use funds to cooperate bilaterally with Chinese entities in spatial matters, except express authorization from Congress and Certification of the FBI. This includes the exchange of technology, data or training, and in practice has blocked any Chinese access route to the International Space Station through NASA. The measure was officially justified for security reasons and concerns about sensitive technology transfer. Analysts like Makena Youngfrom the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), argue that the exclusion imposed by the Wolf amendment “has encouraged China to Accelerate your space programscreating a serious competitor for American leadership in this key scanner of exploration ” Everything indicates that this led Beijing to reinforce its long-term plans and redefine its strategy: move towards a manned program with greater independence, with Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2 as test laboratories before the current station. Now, is there inheritance of previous designs? Yes, and it is not a secret. But one thing is the historical lineage and another, the current dependence. The key is in critical blocks, presumably energy, attitude control, life support, navigationcommunications, computation and software. If those links are under national control, the self -sufficiency narrative gains strength, which means that there are no weak points that a rival country can take advantage of. In operations, there have been no public signs of external dependence: crew rotations and the resupplies have been fulfilled. But there enters the nuance: outside the official story, there are no independent verifications, so it is convenient to avoid absolute, despite the solid signals of autonomy. If we see this from a broader perspective we can discover that the US vetoes They have promoted the development of more advanced national chipsimprovements in manufacturing nodes, An impulse in electric mobility. External barriers have not stopped Beijing: they have been, rather, A strategic catalyst. Images | CMS In Xataka | The state of the ISS is so alarming that the United States and Russia have sat at the table for the first time in eight years In Xataka | It was not an extraterrestrial ship, but not a giant kite. We were totally wrong about 3i/Atlas

Nvidia cannot sell her most powerful chips to China for sanctions. So you have found a plan B: Risc-V

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Nvidia has announced that Its CUDA platform will be compatible with RISC-V processors. He has done so during the Risc-V Summit in China and the chosen place is not accidental: this announcement clearly points to the Chinese market. For the first time, the technology that allows applications to communicate with the NVIDIA GPUs will be extended beyond ARM and X86, towards an open source architecture. Why is it important. CUDA It is the software that operates the Nvidia’s ecosystem. Without a CUDA, the GPU would lose much of their parallel calculation apacities. That Nvidia opens this technology to RISC-V It means that processors based on this open architecture can now serve as the main CPU in NVIDIA GPU systems. The background. The announcement, in addition to making in China, comes while China is accelerating its efforts to reduce its dependence of western processors. Nvidia can’t sell your most powerful models GB200 and GB300 to China for US sanctions, so in this way finds a way to maintain relevant Cuda in the Chinese market. Between the lines. There is a lot of geopolitical strategy in this decision: NVIDIA has been integrating RISC-V nuclei for years into its own GPU for low-level control tasks. Now it makes the jump to support RISC-V as the main processor. And that responds to a reality: if China is going to develop its own processors using open architectures, Nvidia wants to be there from the beginning. In detail. The configuration shown by NVIDIA shows a heterogeneous system: The GPU handles parallel loads. The RISC-V processor executes the CUDA controllers and the application logic. And a DPU manages network tasks. This architecture allows you to orchestrate GPU computations completely within the CUDA environment, something impossible so far with RISC-V. Deepen. Historically, Nvidia has behaved Cuda to each important architecture: X86, ARM, PowerPC and even Sparc de Sun. The company understands that it must be present from the first day on any platform that can take off in the business sector. With a value already exceeding 4 billion dollarsNvidia can afford to bet on all promising architectures. And now the movement positions RISC-V as a viable alternative for future designs of AI processors and high performance computing. If the stars align, other manufacturers could follow the example of Nvidia. And that would accelerate the adoption of RISC-V in data centers beyond China. Outstanding image | Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | On his way to the authentic quantum supremacy, China has set an objective: a “real” quantum computer before 2030

China sanctions are opening the door for Huawei to define the new global standards

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For Nvidia losing the Chinese market would be “a huge loss.” We do not say it; Jensen Huang assures itthe general director of this American company. The future of this company in China is objectively uncertain. US sanctions They do not stop hardeningand little by little they are cutting the range of products that Nvidia can deliver to their Chinese customers despite the attempts of the latter To get out of prohibitions. There is a lot of money at stake. During the last fiscal year, which expired on January 26, 2025, China represented approximately 13% of NVIDIA’s total income with a figure of about 17,000 million dollars. In practice, the country led by Xi Jinping is the third best client of this company only behind the US and Taiwan. However, there is only money at stake; On the table there is also the possibility that Huawei manages to define global standards to the detriment of Nvidia technologies. CUDA domain is in danger “We are at a turning point. The United States must decide whether it will continue leading the development and global implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) or if it is going to go back and retreat (…) America cannot lead to slow down. If we go back others will occupy the space. And the global ecosystem of the AI ​​will fragment technologically, economically and ideologically, has declared Jensen Huang before US legislators. For Nvidia it is a problem not being able to sell its GPUs to its Chinese clients, but it is an even greater problem that CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) end up losing your current domain In the AI ​​industry. And this technology has an essential role in the Nvidia business. Most artificial intelligence projects that are currently being developed are implemented on CUDA. Underestimating Huawei’s ability to correct Cann’s deficiencies would be a serious mistake This technology brings together the compiler and development tools used by programmers to develop their software for NVIDIA GPUs, and replace it with another option in the projects that are already underway it is a problem. Huawei, who aspires to an important portion From this market in China, it has Cann (Compute Architecture for Neural Networks), which is its alternative to CUDA, but for the moment the latter dominates the market. Cann has received criticism because, apparently, it is to use it, and also because its performance is unstable, documentation is insufficient and has reliability problems. However, underestimate Huawei’s ability When correcting these shortcomings it would be a serious mistake. In fact, this Chinese company has admitted the existence of these problems And he has confirmed that he is working to solve them. However, not only Huawei threatens Nvidia’s leadership position. Cann is not the only country’s asset governed by Xi Jinping. Moore Threads It is one of the Chinese companies that are dedicated to the production of hardware for which companies aligned with the interests of the US and its allies cannot sell software or advanced equipment. Although it is very young (it was founded in 2020) it has something very important in its favor: its founder is Zhang Jianzhong, former general manager of the Nvidia subsidiary in China, so it is evident that he knows well what he has in hand. Moore Threads has developed several GPU for AI applications that, on paper, rival some of the advanced solutions that have placed in the Nvidia, AMD or Huawei market. However, this company has something else: a software package with which it pursues Finally break the domain of CUDA. He calls it MUSEis compatible with the range of MTT cards and incorporates a compiler, execution libraries, specialized libraries and code purification tools. On paper its most attractive capacity for China is that it allows to reuse the code written in CUDA, transferring it so that it can be executed on the cards for Moore Threads. Image | Nvidia | Huawei More information | Tom’s hardware In Xataka | AI is the best thing that is happening to nuclear fusion. It is already accelerating the construction of Iter

It has a plan to escape once again the US sanctions

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China is very important for Nvidia. Since he arrived at this market in mid -2024 his chip for artificial intelligence (AI) H20 Their sales have grown no less than 50% quarter to quarter. For the company led by Jensen Huang This reception is a real successespecially if we keep in mind that this GPU is a trimmed review of its most powerful chips that seeks to satisfy the limitations imposed by the US Department of Commerce. Whatever the time of Nvidia bonanza in China seems to have concluded. As we explained in the middle of last April, this last American agency It has imposed restrictions To the export to China of the H20 GPU, and this in practice means that this chip presumably will not reach Chinese clients in Nvidia. This company soon react announcing that this prohibition will cause a hole in its accounts of 5.5 billion dollars due to the commitments linked to the H20 GPU that the reserves of this chip had already acquired that it will finally not be satisfied. Nvidia prepares new AI chips for China, according to The Information As expected, Nvidia will not easily lose the Chinese market. And it is that two media usually well informed as they are The Information and Reuters They have collected that their engineers are working on new GPUs for expressly adapted to the country’s market led by Xi Jinping. Nvidia has not officially confirmed it, but presumably these chips will be trimmed reviews of their most advanced solutions. This is the same strategy that Nvidia turned to when the GPU was ready H800, A800 Or H20, and although it worked, it didn’t do it for a long time. The US government seems to be determined to prevent research institutions and Chinese companies They access hardware for American originso the Department of Commerce Restrictions do not stop hardening that the GPUs must meet that US companies can sell in China. The US government seems to be determined to prevent research institutions and Chinese companies from accessing hardware for American origin At this juncture it is reasonable that we ask ourselves if Chinese clients in Nvidia, among which are Alibaba, Bytedance or Tencent, among others, they are interested in continuing to buy chips for less and less capable. In addition, Huawei is strengthening its position in China to take advantage of the hole that Nvidia is leaving in the market because of US sanctions. And is that just a few hours after the entry into force of the new regulation of the Department of Commerce He presented his chip for the ascend 920a solution that is clearly destined to occupy in the Chinese market The gaps that the H20 GPU is going to leave of Nvidia. This proposal will enter large -scale production during the second half of 2025 using 6 NM integration technology that have presumably developed elbow with Huawei elbow and SMIC. However, this is not the only asset that Huawei has to increase its market share both in China and beyond its country of origin. And this company is preparing to start the testing and validation phase of a new GPU for AI: the Ascend 910D chip. Unlike the GPU Ascend 920 that, as we have seen, presumably aspires to compete with the NVIDIA H20 chip, the GPU Ascend 910D seeks to overcome the performance of the chip NVIDIA H100. If this movement is confirmed, already priori this information is reliable, it will be evident that Huawei will have chosen to fight in all hardware market segments for AI In which Nvidia is present. Until now this Chinese company wanted to get its hardware dominate the inference processes in AIand not the training of the models, but this strategy in which moderation prevails seems to have come to an end. Image | Nvidia More information | The Information | Reuters In Xataka | The US gives Huawei a great opportunity: to get its new chip for AI with the Nvidia market in China

Should the same fine pay the same poor as a rich? Spain is already serious that the DGT puts progressive sanctions

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An increase of up to 500%. That is what has been able to add in the Congress of Deputies with their proposal of law to implement the concept of progressivity to traffic sanctions. A measure that already applies in other countries and aims to match the balance. This is what we know. A Law Proposition. First of all, it is important to know What is a law proposition. This formula allows any parliamentary group to present a letter in which the modification of a law or the creation of an existing one is. Once presented, the government has 30 days to answer whether or not it is processed. If processed, the deadline for presenting possible amendments to the text is opened. In case of moving forward is when the final approval of the text is discussed in the Congress of Deputies. Here is the time to approve this proposition, which decays or that different modifications are included. The proposal to add. Therefore, the proposal to add is, for the moment, in the first step before traffic violations are forward. However, it is still important because it opens the debate to the approval of progressive fines in our country. As you can read in the text presented at the Congress of Deputies, the idea is that the one who has the most pay in case of committing an infraction. “It cannot be that for some a fine ruins the month and for others it is a calderilla,” said Enrique Santiago, spokesman to add, in words collected by The country. What is it? As we say, in which he pays more who has the most. But, to what extent. That is what would have to be defined and add its proposal: A 30% increase in the cost of the sanction “in response to the severity and transcendence of the fact, the background of the offender and his status as a repeat offender, the potential danger created for himself and for the other users of the road and the criterion of proportionality” A 150% increase for sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income is between 70,000 and 85,000 euros. A 300 % increase between sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income between 85,000 and 100,000 euros. A 500 % increase for sanctioned offenders whose annual gross income greater than 100,000 euros. In addition to increases in the payment of sanctions, the proposal also includes reductions for serious and very serious infractions: 30% reduction for those who prove income up to 1.5 times the SMI 15% reduction for those who prove income between 1.5 and 2.5 times the SMI What do we pay? At the moment, the DGT contemplates three scenarios to punish the infractions According to the Traffic Law: Mild infractions: up to 100 euros of sanction. Serious infractions: sanction of 200 euros. Very serious infractions: sanction of 500 euros as a general rule. Reiteration in alcohol or drug use is punished with 1,000 euros. Driving a car with detectors or radar inhibitors is punished with 3,000 euros. Current punishments for speeding How much would we pay? If we apply the proposal to add to the current sanctions, it must be taken into account that all speeding is a serious offense, although a penalty of 100 euros is contemplated for the milder cases. That is, to exceed the maximum permitted speed would entail the payment of the following fines: People who enter less than 1.5 times the SMI: 70 euros. People entering between 1.5 and 2.5 times the SMI: 85 euros. People who exceed 2.5 times the SMI and up to 70,000 euros: they could pay up to 130 euros “in response to the severity and transcendence of the fact, the background of the offender and their status as a repeat offender, the potential danger created for himself and for the other users of the road and the criteria of proportionality.” People who enter between 70,000 and 85,000 euros: 250 euros. People entering between 85,000 and 100,000 euros: 400 euros. People who enter more than 100,000 euros: 600 euros. In response to more serious speed, which is punished with 600 euros, we could talk about sanctions of up to 3,600 euros at the upper end. For fines for drug use, it would amount to 6,000 euros. And for the use of inhibitors and radar detectors they would be 18,000 euros. Does this apply in any country? Yes, different European Union countries have this way of acting in traffic but not all apply in the same way. The most obvious and known case is that of Finland, pioneers who apply this method since 1929 according to Pyramid Consultingspecialized in resorting traffic sanctions. Finland is also famous because in the early 2000s, a Nokia manager was sanctioned with a Fine of 116,000 euros for exceeding the maximum limit allowed at 25 km/h. It is not the only Finnish case, Anders Wiklöf, Finnish millionaire owner of Wiklöf Holding (A group of more than 20 companies that invest in all types of sectors), complained that only three fines 300,000 euros had cost him. And Finland is not the only country where this criterion is applied. In Sweden and in Switzerland he also pays the most and in Denmark, reductions of up to 50% are contemplated when paying fines so not everything is bad news, they collect in Cubic centimeters. And does it work? There are doubts that increasing what is paid for traffic infractions has a real effect on traffic accidents. Some studies They claim that applying progressive fines can reduce road deaths by 5% and 2% serious injuries. However, a meta -analysis It did correlate an increase in the payment of the sanctions between 50 and 100% of the cost of them with a 15% reduction in infractions. Despite this, it was not confirmed that there was a clear correlation between this reduction and a decrease in the number of accidents, dead on the road or injured. Photo | Jorge Fraganillo In Xataka | We already know … Read more

Even with the sanctions it is cheaper

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In recent days, President Donald Trump has sent a proposal High to Vladimir Putin. In addition, the G7 He has urged To Russia to accept the stop to the fire or, otherwise, you will have to face new sanctions. However, one of the strongest assets of the Kremlin is not having problems thanks to the black market. The hidden market. The last report of the IEA has pointed out That the combined production of Russia’s crude oil, Venezuela and Iran has increased in March, compared to the previous months. As advanced in their social networks Energy expert Javier Blas: “Despite all rumors about new sanctions, the black oil market is thriving.” Despite the sanctions. The three countries mentioned continue to export raw, taking advantage of lagoons in the regulation and lack of political will to curb the flow of illicit oil, such as explains Javier Blas in his column. Also, like It is mentioned in the IEA reportexports from both Russia and Iran have not experienced significant interruptions, since both countries meet the demand of China and India. For its part, Venezuela has had to face more challenges for the revocation of the Chevron license, which the He has forced to depend more on intermediaries to export their crude, especially China. The increasingly lower price. The price of oil He is facing A “perfect storm”, in which an unexpected country, Kazakhstan, has been placed in the center of the energy market. Although this country was not known for being a great producer such as Russia, Iran or Venezuela, its growing influence on OPEC+ and its overproduction strategy are affecting the global oil supply. For its part, Russia, Iran and Venezuela produce Together 16 million barrels per day, that is, 15% of the world market of crude oil with lower prices affecting the traditional market. But how do they? The black oil market has adopted different methods to avoid sanctions. Oil trees without sanctions and transfers on the high seas, better known as “Ghost ships“, They have become common routes to continue exporting the crude of the mentioned countries. This strategy, although expensive and risky, remains attractive due to the high profit margin. Intermediaries play a crucial role, then Through triangulation With countries that do not apply sanctions, such as China and India, they continue to buy and transport the crude sanctioned without fear of immediate repercussions. Europe without action for action. Meanwhile, the EU faces a complicated situation. On the one hand, as we commented above, it cannot act against the black market. On the other hand, like Bloomberg has advancedan agreement between the Kremlin and the US on Ukraine could resume the flows of the Russian gas pipelines to Europe. This statement adds another layer of uncertainty to the situation, since a few days ago the debate between Russia and the United States about The reopening of nordstream 2. The global impact. As Russia, Iran and Venezuela maintain exports of the black market and Kazakhstan and the United States continue to overcome, prices will continue to be pressed down. To all this, we must add a lack of agreement in the high on the fire in the Ukraine War, so the uncertainty in the energy markets will continue. The combination of these dynamics could continue to disrupt the global market balance, leaving the energy situation even more vulnerable. Image | Unspash Xataka | Europe has sent 18,000 million euros to Ukraine for war. The problem is that it has spent more on Russian oil and gas

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