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China promised them very happy with day 996. Until they realized that it was shot in the foot

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You enter to work at 9 in the morning and leave at 9 at night. So Monday to Saturday, with a single rest day. 72 hours per week. It may seem crazy, but it is known as Day 996 They have followed many Chinese companies in the technological sector for years. The Chinese government ended up taking letters in the matter Upon realizing that the endless days were not only bad for workers, they were also bad for the country. Culture 996. A few years ago, working 12 hours a day was common in Chinese technological. Richard Liu, founder of JD.com He described these “blessing” and Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba, said that “if you don’t work from nine in the morning at nine o’clock at night when you are young, when are you going to do it?”. The term 996 was coined in 2019 following a protest against this work model to which they baptized 996-Icua word game that referred to that day would take workers to the ICU. This movement unleashed a wave of criticism at the national level and it is believed that it was the seed that The Government prohibited it. The change. In 2021, with the marathon days at the point of view of the government, there were many companies that turned back and brought back the weekend of two days. There were also companies like Tencent that cut the daily work hours from 10 to 6 in the afternoon, from 996 to 1065. Why this change? Fed up workers. Day 996 has been gasoline for the growth of the Chinese technological sector and its end responds to several reasons. The most obvious is that the workers were fed up in these exploitation conditions in which there were even cases of deaths due to exhaustion. The government said in its ruling that “workers are entitled to rest and take a vacation”, but we must not forget that it is the same government known for go against unions and imprison activists. National consumption. Inhuman working hours were a shot in the foot for the Government’s development objectives. In 2021, Xi Jinping promoted the idea of the “Common prosperity”an initiative that intended to grow the economy both outside and within its borders. However, promoting internal consumption was not compatible with 12 -hour working days. Technological workers charged more than in other sectors, but if they spent all their awake weather inside the office, they had no chance to spend it. Birth. Birth problems in China come from afar, but before the problem was that There were too muchnow it is Just the opposite And schedule 996 did not play in his favor. They counted in This articlethat in Chinese companies there is an entrenched idea that they call “ascend or out.” This is the belief that if a worker does not rise to a high position before having children, he runs the risk of replacing him with someone younger. In addition, men who have children and work with these schedules cannot take care of them or home, which in many cases expels women in the labor market. This makes many workers delay the time of having children, some even completely renounce. All happy? Ending 996 benefits workers, but also plays in favor of these objectives. The labor market expands because there is no age roof so low, birth rate and domestic consumption rises. All perfect, or almost. The end of 996 has not left many workers for free, when Bytedance announced that its employees would not work on weekends, He did it together with a 20%salary cut. In addition, for many workers the nightmare is not over. Last year, the head of Baidu media published a series of videos in which he denounced that he was forced to be available 24 hours a day. Culture 996 is still rooted above all in citiesmaking many young people choose to go to smaller nuclei where life is calmer. Image | Amparo Babyloni, Xataka In Xataka | Deepseek marked a turning point in the AI race. Now another Chinese company wants to imitate its success: Kimi K2 is born

If Europe is beating solar energy records this summer, why has the price of light shot?

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Summer is a paradox season for the energy sector. On the one hand, renewables are reaching historical figures. June marked the month of greater production of solar energy ever registered in the European Union: Friolera of 45 twh22% more than the previous year. On the other, many Europeans saw how their light of the light doubled or even tripled. The question is inevitable: if we swim in solar energy, why do we pay more for electricity? The demand is triggered. The heat waves that run Europe They have put the thermometers around 40 ºC in numerous points in Spain, France and Germany. With air conditioning systems, working at maximum power, the electrical demand has shot. According to him Last Ember reportdaily demand grew by 14% in Spain, 9% in France and 6% in Germany during the month of June. A greater electrical demand, alone, already presses the prices of upward light. But the heat brought with it a second problem, this time on the offer side. Thermal plants are suffocated. The same heat that drives the demand for air conditioning puts traditional energy plants, especially nuclear. These facilities need huge amounts of river water to refrigerate their reactors. When the water temperature rises too much, its refrigeration capacity decreases, forcing to reduce production and, in extreme cases, to stop it completely. France It has been the most affected country. Its fleet of nuclear centrals, one of the pillars of the European interconnected network, is suffering capacity reductions in almost all its facilities. But it is not an exclusively nuclear problem. In Poland, the cooling of coal centrals is being a constant concern, and in Italy, the overheating of the network cables was the most likely cause of the blackout of July 1. At the time of maximum need, a crucial part of the generation of traditional energy is not available. Missing storage for the solar. The saving of this crisis is photovoltaic solar energy. In Germany, the Solar came to generate 50 GW peaks, covering between 33% and 39% of the entire electricity of the country. With a marginal cost close to zero, solar panels are doing exactly what is expected of them: maintain the stability of the network during the day with abundant and cheap energy, despite their Performance problems under extreme heat. The night is another song. At sunset, solar production falls to zero, but the refrigeration demand remains high. When the high temperatures persist until well into the night, Insufficient storage capacity (either in batteries or With pumping hydroelectric) forces to resort to gas and other fossil sources to cover the hole, shooting prices. The damn “Spred”. This temporal mismatch caused by the abundance of variable energy and the lack of resources to store it is what causes madness in prices. A daily price differential (the “spred”) of up to € 400/MWh in Germany and € 470/MWh in Poland. This night peak, and not the average price, is what triggers the final bill and makes the light through the clouds when more cheap energy is producing. The lesson is clear: the challenge is not only to generate cheap renewable energy, but manage it. More storage is needed to buy energy at low prices at noon and sell it at high prices in the afternoon. But also More European interconnections. The heat wave did not affect all of Europe with the same intensity and the same day. The biggest June peaks arrived in Madrid on Domingo, Paris on Tuesday and Berlin on Wednesday. The reinforcement of the interconnections will allow to distribute the cheap energy more and better. Image | Agrisolar Clearinghouse (CC) In Xataka | Spain and Portugal are tired of promises: they ask France to leave the electric alley

Whenever there has been war in the Middle East the price of oil has shot. Now something different is happening

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A truce between Iran and Israel announced by President Donald Trump had an immediate impact on energy markets. According to Financial TimesBrent’s crude oil fell up to 5.6 % on the morning of Tuesday, June 24 – having $ 67.50 per barrel – after the news of the high to fire. However, market volatility has not ceased during the day. Prices have partially rebound after Israel accused Iran of raping the truce and threatened with a “blunt response.” At the end of the day, According to Oilprice dataBrent’s price remains around 67 dollars. This sway reflects how the oil market is still extremely sensitive to geopolitical holders. Hadn’t they shot each other? Less than two months ago, A perfect sinking storm The price of oil below $ 60, for tariffs, refinery closure and overproduction. With the outbreak of the conflict between Iran and Israel, oil prices They had shot. As He explained Bloomberg, the military offensive revived one of the greatest fears of the oil market: an interruption of the supply from Iran, the third largest producer in the region. However, that climb lasted little, exceeding the breeze price of $ 80 per barrel only for a few hours. Operators did not detect concrete damage to critical infrastructures or interruptions in crude oil flow, which quickly cooled expectations. A persistent threat. Despite the initial containment, the Ormuz Strait remains the great friction point. For this narrow one – just 9 kilometers at its closest point – circulates around 20 % of the world crude. Iran has repeatedly threatened to close it if the scale scale, which would activate one of the worst scenarios for global markets. The tension has generated concrete reactions. Several Chinese oil ships They have received instructions to avoid the area. This gesture suggests that, although there is still no open conflict, navigation risks are real and affect logistic decisions of key actors such as China. There is a superlative difference. Despite tensions, prices have not climbed as in past crises. This is due to several structural factors such as high production and sufficient reserves. Thanks to the rise of Shale Oil in the US and the increase in production in Canada, Guyana and Brazil, the global market has a wide mattress. Even if Iranian exports were stopped – about 2 million barrels per day – OPEC+ could supply the void without great shocks, According to Bloomberg. On the other hand, in the same medium, they have stressed that even China, the largest oil consumer in the last decades, shows signs of having reached a roof in its demand, added to its own national production. A fragile balance. The immediate future of the oil market will depend on three major factors. The first, and more critical, is the Ormuz Strait: if Iran decides to close – or threats credible with doing it – this strategic route, prices could be shot. Second, there is the response from the United States and Israel. If the truce is officially broken or military reprisals intensify, a new cycle of uncertainty and volatility in markets would open. Finally, China’s position, the main Iranian crude buyer. Any decision of Beijing – is a tactical withdrawal, greater caution in transport or diplomatic pressure – could alter the current balance. For now, operators seem to assume that the situation will remain contained, without a real interruption of the supply. But with the atmosphere so loaded, a single spark could return to oil to the center of the hurricane. Image | Pexels Xataka | Geography has given Iran its best weapon against the US: a red button to shoot the world oil price

The price of banana has shot and has taken many by surprise

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The banana is one of the favorite fruits of the Spaniards if we pay attention to Consumption data. This can explain the concern about the pricing climbing of the Planteanera fruit. Explaining the situation. A concern that recently led the association that encompasses the Canary Islands banana producers to explain why inflationary pressure. He did Through your account of Twitter (X) and in response to a user who He highlighted The fact that bananas of Costa Rican origin are remarkably cheaper than the island banana. In his response, banana from the Canary Islands spoke of “A very complicated situation”Heiress of the passage through the Canarian archipelago of The Dorothea Borrasca. This storm affected the Canary Islands in mid -December 2024, causing damages of different types of producers. The winds of the storm started banana trees and had a direct impact on production, but the storm and their storms also indirectly affected, for example with interruptions in the electrical system. Supply and demand. The result: lower production and with it a rise in prices. “It is not usual, but a reality that is affecting us all, from those who cultivate to those who buy the banana,” indicate In their social networks. The offer has fallen what in principle should lead to higher and lower sales prices. The problem is that the demand for this appreciated fruit is relatively inelastic, which implies that a shockIn the offer it has a greater effect on the prices than on sales: people are willing to pay more for the product. To this we must add another factor, that of exports. According to explained in The newspaper Paco Déniz, former deputy in the Parliament of the Canary Islands by Podemos, the large part of the Canarian production is exported (including the one exported to the Peninsula). 131%. Before the arrival of Dorothea the perspective was another: the expected production was around 450 million tons, a greater figure of the productive thresholds marked by the European Union but lower than the figure achieved in the previous harvest, of 467 million tons. All this, we pointed out, has implied an important escalation in banana prices, especially striking in the fruit of Canarian origin. According to data From the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, between January 27 and the beginning of June, the average price of bananas as a whole has grown by 131%, that is, it is now more than double than in January. A most volatile market. A few months ago we talked about a very different situation. Before the arrival of Borrasca, the problem was in the fact that banana prices did not allow a profitable product. “From January 2023 to October 2024, only in three months of the 22 the banana has had a price that we could call profitable,” We pointed then. In Xataka | Scientifically solving one of the great dilemmas of banana: if it is good to eat it daily or not Image | Cesar Gonzalez

Its productivity shot 40%

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Japan is a country known for its demanding work culture and its endless working days. Loyalty to the company and the commitment to the results led employees to put at risk your life With extreme trends. However, the division of Microsoft in Japan decided to break those rigid schemes and Implement a summer With the work week four days for its entire template. The experiment exceeded all expectations on productivity and labor well -being. Microsoft challenges Japanese work culture Despite Japan’s reputation for his “culture of presentism” and the custom of working long hours, Microsoft dared to launch A pioneer initiative In 2019. In August of that year, the company gave its 2,300 employees five consecutive free Fridays, maintaining the full salary and without demanding time compensation. According to the companyThe objective was to “experiment how they can achieve the same results with 20% less work time,” said Takuya Hirano, then president and executive director of Microsoft Japan. The measure adopted by Microsoft was especially innovative because it advanced To the global trend to explore work models more flexiblelong before the pandemic accelerated the debate on the Working Day and Teleworking. The experimentknown as “Work-Life Choice Challenge 2019 Summer”, sought to improve productivity and creativity by changing the way time was used in the company. In other words, he sought to optimize his processes by eliminating those more unproductive tasks of the day. An unexpected leap in productivity and efficiency The big surprise came when reviewing the data collected during the test: productivity, measured in this case by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% with respect to the same period of the previous year. The key to this increase was in the OPTIMIZATION OF WORK TIMEespecially in which employees dedicated to meetings. During the experiment, a New standard for meetingssetting them by default in 30 minutes, instead of 60 minutes as usual. This cut was a 46% increase in short meetings. In addition, many of them were performed in remote format instead of face -to -face, which further expedited processes. The company itself acknowledged that “the time of its meetings and the number of participants in Japan were well above the global average”, so that cut was decisive for the success of the test. According to the 4 Day Work Week organization, which has supervised most pilot tests carried out in the world, including that of Valencia“The substantial increase in productivity observed in the study underlines the effectiveness of a condensed work schedule to optimize employee performance.” Cost reduction for the company The experiment not only Productivity improved of Microsoft, but also registered a savings in your operational costs of the company’s offices. During the trial period, paper printing was reduced by 58.7% and energy consumption fell 23.1% compared to the same month in three previous years. One of the keys to this success was the intensive use of digital platforms such as Microsoft Teamsthat the company had launched in 2017, and that allowed to centralize communication and meetings in a single virtual space. Microsoft took the opportunity to demonstrate to its corporate clients that efficiency goes through adopting alternative digital tools and models. “Microsoft has been a pioneer in Asia in its intention to offer alternative work models that attract talent to their ranks and also to retain it,” They stood out In its official statement. In Xataka | Three Spanish companies tell us how it has gone after implementing a job utopia: the four -day week In Xataka | The myth says that Germans work more than the Spaniards. The data tell a different thing Image | Flickr (Qso4you.com)

The US opted to veto the advanced chips of AI in China. The shot has come absolutely for the cylinder head

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In September 2022 the United States intensified its commercial war with China with a singular measure: prohibited export of advanced chips from AI to the Asian giant. That decision was aimed at protecting the innovation capacity of the United States and incidentally Zancadilla to China. Or try, because the truth is that the play has been a real pifia. Nvidia is suffering the consequences. The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, gave a talk in Computex in which critical strongly that measure and all that followed it. “Four years ago, Nvidia had 95% market share in China. Today is only 50%. The rest is Chinese technology. They have a lot of local technology they would use if they did not have Nvidia.” The veto has caused the opposite effect. Huang continued to say that those measures They have caused just the opposite that was intended. Instead of leaving China back in the field of technological innovation, they have awakened it. “Export controls have provided them with the spirit (to innovate), and government support has accelerated its development. Our competition is intense in China. “ The H20 chip has been a ruin for Nvidia. The last of the examples of this disaster we have In the H20 chipa “trimmed” and less capable version of its most advanced chips that was developed precisely for the Chinese market. Although During all 2024 Nvidia was allowed to export that chip to China, in April the US government prohibited these sales. That caused some losses of 5.5 billion dollars In Nvidia, a hard blow from which they now try to recover with A new version that Not even It will be based on Hopper architecture. USA should back. For Huang, the strategy is the wrong one: “If the US wants to stay ahead, we need to maximize and accelerate the diffusion (of our technology), not limit it.” The Government prepares the review of the “AI DIFFUSION RULE” issued by Biden in January 2025. This regulation further restricted exports to China of Hardware and AI software. CUDA, also threatened. The hardware is no longer the problem, but there is an important one with CUDA, the NVIDIA ecosystem that is absolute reference for solutions of IA software solutions. Huawei has an alternative called Cann, but there are several Western companies that also want to get rid of the domain of CUDA. Among them are Intel, Openai and of course, AMD, that in fact It has technically higher chips to those of Nvidia but that actually behave worse for having lower software. But China goes to yours. The striking thing about all this is that the US strategy has caused a spectacular effect in China, where the development of “very socialist” models It is now overwhelming – Deepseek R1 is the clear example. But they are also making surprising chips Like Huawei’s Ascend 910ccomparable to the almost mythical Nvidia H100. The thing does not end there: they are already preparing the deployment of The new ascend 910dwhich is supposed to even go further. Image | Nvidia | Dominic Kurniawan In Xataka | There is a great threat to the US if you send thousands of advanced chips from AI to the Middle East. That end in China

The key ingredient of the Torrijas has shot in price. That does not mean that they will be more expensive

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God squeezes, but does not drown. Not at least if we talk about Torrijas. Although the ovoflation threatened to shoot record levels The cost of one of the typical Sweet cheaper That just a year ago. About 20%. And the reason is simple: perhaps the dozen eggs has more expensive in recent months, but other ingredients, such as Olive oil And sugar, have softened their price. After all, Torrijas are more than a sweet tasty: they are also a curious (and interesting) indicator of how the purchase basket evolves. Don’t say torrijas, say economics. It occurs sometimes that a dish ends up becoming an economic and social thermometer. An example is The “pizzometro”an informal indicator that according to some experts is activated just before global crises. Another clear case is THE BIC MAC INDEXa way of measuring inflation with hamburgers. And a third example is the Waffle House indexwhich allows US authorities to calculate the scope of storms with gofres. In Spain we have The Torrijas. Its combination of bread, milk, sugar, oil and eggs makes them a curious indicator of how IPC evolves. So He claims Sara Herrero, director of Business & Talent by EAE Business School, for whom the sweet is a “good thermometer of the basic basket basket of the basic products of Spanish families.” The problem is that in full ovoflationthis Holy Week that indicator has looked at each other with a special concern. Why’s that? Because Torrijas recipe includes eggs. And these have been expensive exponentially over the last months. In March the OCU calculated that in alone A few weeks The price of the dozen medium eggs had increased about 25%. And the Updated data Facua show that since then they have not been cheaper in most linear. Moreover, the tables prepared by the Toledo Lonja either Bellpuig They reflect that in some cases the price of the eggs has increased, which is in tune with the data collected by the INE itself. His last IPC confirms that in the last month the eggs took care 7.2%well above the general index. Prohibitive Torrijas? That is what some have feared in recent weeks: that in view of the escalation in the price of eggs, with the effect of avian flu and the ovoflation From the United States as a backdrop, tortals fired their price this Holy Week. There are even those who until recently warned that we would meet the “most expensive” sweets. It does not seem to be like that. And not because the eggs are going to be reduced in the short term. The key is other ingredients of the toast that today come out much cheaper than a year ago, which has damping the ovoflation. This concludes A study From EAE Business School, which after analyzing the latest segregated IPC data calculates that preparing Torrijas will come out 19% cheaper that in 2024. IPC Annual variation (March) Ipc variation so far this year (March) Bread 1.8 0.2 Whole milk 3.2 23 Eggs 11.4 8.6 Olive oil -37.9 -19.9 Sugar -15.6 -1,9 Electricity 12.8 5.7 Natural Gas and Gas City 8.4 4 Sugar and oil, rescue. According to EAEthe key to the cheaper is in olive oil and sugar, ingredients that are also used in Easter sweet. The first has seen how its price was reduced by 32%. The second, 15%. Taking into account that today these resources are cheaper, the agency estimates that, in general, the recipe will cost almost 20% less than in 2024. Some calculations go further and suggest the dessert will come out this year 27% cheaper. EAE calculations were made with the Segregated data of the IPC of the month of February. If analyzed those of Marchthe percentage can vary. The reason: the year-on-year IPC last month was more favorable if we talk about olive oil (-37.9%) and sugar (-15.6%), but much worse when we examine the cost of eggs. His interannual rise was that month of the 11.4% compared to 3.8% in February. And the rest of the ingredients? Torrijas are not made solely with eggs, olive oil and sugar. But we analyze The rest of the ingredients We see that its variation with respect to 2024 is not so marked. The PAN recorded in March an interannual CPI of 1.8%, below the general index of 2.3%. The milk did exceed that value slightly, scoring 3.2%, but the increase is minimal compared to that of eggs. What became more expensive is energy. The EAE study concludes that in 2025 the Torrijas will break in any case the tendency to become more expensive that they had been dragging over the last years, which does not mean that in general today they leave much more expensive than four years ago. The agency calculates in particular that the increase was about 53%. Images | Moritz Barcelona (Flickr) and TNARIK INNAEL (Flickr) In Xataka | The price of eggs has shot and having an own chicken coop seems attractive. But there are fines of up to 3,000 euros

The price of beef has shot. And that threatens to turn hamburgers into the new seafood

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“A sirloin or hamburger will become luxury products, retail and restaurants “. The phrase It is from Alejandro Hermo, CEO of Goiko, and gives a clear idea of ​​how the restoration has attended for months to the Encrying of beef in Spain. The deep mismatch between supply and demand has made the price of the genre rise. Quite. And in a short time. They show them CPI data and confirm it in the sector itself, where some manager assures that since January 2024 the cost of meat has shot more than 65%. “We are in a perfect storm,” warns. What happened? That beef has become considerably increasing over the last months. The sector warns it and it is confirmed The INE, The OCU or the Ministry of Agriculture, which in its Sector reportsupdated every week, it brings a clear photo of the prices with which the wholesalers operate. According to His last balancelast week the year (young veal) was paid in Spain at € 686/100 kg, 1.3% more than seven days before and 28.3% more than a year ago. And it is not an isolated case. In the case of cows with the denomination of origin, the price increase with respect to 2024 is 28.4%, of 23% if we talk about girlfriends and 24.4% in the case of the ZR category of eight to twelve months. Is there more data? Yes. In February the IPC of beef recorded an interannual rise higher than 10%considerably above the general data or that of food as a whole, which It did not reach 2%. From the sector they are even more categorical. A few days ago Alejandro Hermo published An analysis On that same issue in LinkedIn in which he ensures that over “the last months” the costs have shot 30%, and “almost (have) duplicated in just over two years.” “Inflation in beef has not stopped and has even gone worse,” It coincided In mid -March Jorge Castelló, director of Carpisa Foods, in an interview with Electomista. “Since January 2024, today the meat has increased its price between 65 and 70%. And in what we have been taking 25%. We have a galloping inflation.” There is who warns that the situation will get worse when the prices paid by wholesalers in March are transferred to the super. And what is the reason? As usually happens in these cases, the trend is not explained by a single factor, but by The sum of several. Hermo points a few, but the main one is the mismatch between supply and demand. The first, Explainit is “very limited” after the sacrifice of cattle several years ago for the rise in costs and the low price of milk, while the second is marked by a increase in consumption in homes and demand from abroad. How to solve it? The problem is that adjusting the supply and demand to correct the imbalances in the market will not be a simple task. Not fast. “Raising cows has a cycle of two to four years”, remember. Of backdrop is the effect of drought on the farms and the blow that the Blue tongue and the Epizotic hemorrhagic disease (EHE). Its shadow is felt double both for its impact in Spain and by the one suffered in the European livestock cabin, which complicates to bring cattle on the other side of the Pyrenees. Have we lost win? “The origin is in the shortage of supply. There are no animals available because the field is empty and this situation will take long to recover,” Castelló warned When asked for the reasons for inflation. “The sacrificed animals have not been replaced and many resources would have to be invested to repopulate the field for high prices. To this shortage, in addition, an increasingly high demand is added in the beef market.” The Eurostat cattle census, collected by The countrygives an idea of ​​to what extent the Spanish cabin and other neighboring countries have been reduced. Between 2022 and 2024, years marked by the health crisis, the drought, the increase in the feed and the shortage of pastures, Spain went from 6.45 million heads of cattle to 6.17 million, 4.4% less. In France, with a much higher census, the fall was 3.3%, in Germany of 4.9%, in Ireland of 3.7%and in Poland 4%. What can we expect? Hermo remember That “less and fewer people want to devote to livestock”, a trend that relates to the hardness of the sector, but also with “administrative obstacles” imposed by administrations. The result, he warns, is that the restoration faces a “perfect storm” that will force him to raise his prices “pure survival.” “A sirloin or hamburger will become a luxury product, retail and restaurant.” In his opinion, a national plan is urgent to “foster livestock”, adopt measures to prevent other countries from outside Europe to carry out “subsidized exports’” or, in case the previous measures do not work, “open the hand” so that the sector can import from countries with greater offer. “Animals will always be, but they will be increasing Add Castelló. Images | Kin Li (UNSPLASH) and Department of agriculture In Xataka | The countries that consume more and less meat in the world, illustrated in a detailed map

The price of eggs has shot and having an own chicken coop seems attractive. But there are fines of up to 3,000 euros

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2025 is the year of Trump’s return to the White House, that of the negotiations on Ukraine, the Rearm of Europe, The tariffs and the distancing from Brussels and Washington. And against all prognosis 2025 it is also being the year of the Egg crisis. Literally. Good The US knowsplunged into a deep “ovoflation”but also Spainwhere in a short time the eggs have increased more than 20%. Thus, many households, especially in the rural, can think of mount To self -abuse. It is not new or that has been done before in Spain. Of course, since 2024 more than chickens, grain and desire to have a domestic chicken coop is needed. If we want to save a fine, it is also necessary to fulfill certain procedures. Issue of laws (and fines). That we lead all our lives seeing homemade pens in the villages, mounted on farms or courtyards with a few laying chickens, it does not mean that there is no law that regulates them. In July 2021 it was approved A Royal Decree which establishes certain “basic standards” to “order” poultry farms. And although it does not focus exclusively on “self -consumption” farms, it includes certain guidelines that its owners must respect. If you have a chicken coop or even a small homemade corral you should know the decree. Especially because, although The text It is 2021, part of its rules on safety, hygiene and equipment did not begin to apply until relatively recently: on January 1, 2024, when the moratorium enjoyed by the farms that already existed. And what does the decree say? One of the most relevant points for domestic farms is the one collected in article 16.5, which Specifies: “The holders of self -consumption farms will be obliged to carry out prior communication so that they are included in the General Registry of Livestock Explodes.” The “self -consumption” nuance is important because The law also define clearly what requirements they must meet to be: not exceed a maximum number of birds or selling anything they produce. Neither young nor meat nor eggs. In case they would go to the category of “reduced exploitation”. The requirement for home pens is less strict than the one applied to the rest of the farms, which before registering is required an authorization that accredits that they meet all the norms; But that does not mean that chickens for self -supply can do whatever they want. They must register. And among other issues are obliged to identify a reference veterinarian. Question of eggs euros. Laws usually carry sanctions for those who break them. AND The 2021 decree About poultry farms is no exception. In the norm, no sanctions are specified in euros, but the corpus of laws to which the authorities will resort to an infraction does refer. In the case at hand, that of not registering a corral, the reference is the Animal Health Law of 2003in which it is identified as a mild infraction not to communicate to the authorities the births or entries of animals of an exploitation. And how much does that mean? A good pinch. The sanction can go from 600 to 3,000 euros, everything depends on the circumstances of each case and aggravating as recidivism. The law also allows infractions to settle with a simple “warning”, although exceptionally. “It will only be imposed if there was no intent and in the last two years the person in charge would not have been sanctioned (…) for the commission of any other violation of the planned,” Clarify. But … Is it a new standard? Not quite. In fact it has been feeling its effect in different regions of Spain for a few months. A year ago for example The voice of Galicia explained that the new requirement had left “an avalanche” of applications in the offices of the Department of Rural Environment, where they already accounted for 40,700 self -consumption chickens. The high ones do not respond only to the fear of fines. Without the process, Corrales owners were already They couldn’t buy New offspring for its farms. In other regions the norm had a scope much more limited. The eggs, under the focus. That the Royal Decree of 2021 is news is now explained for a simple reason: the eggs have become considerably more expensive in recent weeks. In a scenario marked by the increase in demand and the costs and ghost of the avian flu that hits the United States, the Ministry of Agriculture calculates that its price at origin has risen 30% In just one year. So far from 2025 the increases have been, depending on the type of product, between 11 and 18%, with increases especially pronounced in the last month. The OCU estimates that “a dozen medium eggs now costs 25% more than a month ago.” Specifically, it calculates that the price of M Eggs M have risen 25.2% if they are compared to the data of April 2024. It also agrees that the rise has been more marked the last two weeks. Looking for the causes. OCU is not limited only to Identify ups Price, which move between 25% of the M Eggs and 15.4% year -on -year of the L. have also investigated the causes of that increase, a sum of “several factors” among which includes the rise in prices at origin, the US crisis by avian flu, an increase in production controls and “collective psychosis.” “The videos, information in networks … of individuals talking about the price increase and comparing what the eggs cost the eggs creates an environment in which we all expect that ‘crisis’”, Reason the organization of consumers, which warns about the possible “speculation.” With that backdrop in the US there are even those who have opted for rent chickens and self -abuse. In Spain, having its own domestic corral is not such a strange option, especially in the rural, but that: to avoid scares (and fines) it is convenient to know the law and … Read more

Chance or not, Tesla has collapsed in the stock market at the same time that its great rival has shot: byd

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Like a rocker. Like the communicating vessels that claim to be Barça and Madrid. As, the most Chinese, concept of Ying and Yang. Or as the most Spanish, said of “the two sides of the same currency.” Byd and Tesla seem to be in completely opposite points. Just when one seems to have Detwered And it does not stop presenting new solutions for its vehicles the other seems to be completely stagnant in the launch of new proposals. When one has taken off the other one in a clear setback. We do not know what will last but what is clear is that, at the moment, photography for Byd and Tesla cannot be more different. Two completely different scenarios It is enough to review the last six months of Byd and Tesla to verify that the situation cannot be more different for both companies. From Tesla’s point of view, if we look back half a year we find that the company was about to enter a roller emission mountain. In October 2024 Tesla presented what he aspired to be a blow on the table. Your promise: a robotaxi without pedals or steering wheel which should be sold from 2026 for 30,000 euros. Although doubts emerged at first given Cruise and Waymo’s performance In the autonomous driving market and the mountain of money burned along the way, Donald Trump’s choice shortly after An unexpected impulse To the company. Despite contraintuitive, choosing a president who seemed contrary to the electric car was A good way to keep Tesla at the top… from the United States. Because The actions shot But the data has ended up clicking the bubble. First with the confirmation that Tesla He could not sell more cars in 2024 than the previous year. Second because 2025 has started horrificly For Elon Musk’s company. And, third, because the falls are more pronounced in the countries that buy the most electric, such as China and Germany. To all of the above you have to add a reputational crisis of the company as a consequence of Elon Musk’s political decisions. The real impact is not very clear in their drop in stock market but that social networks have been filled with people denying the company or attacked vehicles and concessionaires Because of the decisions of his CEO they do not seem to help at all. If we look Stock performance Six months, the company seems to have been stagnant above the border of the 200 dollars/action. Its value remains very high and a setback of less than 4% does not seem too much but the growth and subsequent adjustment have been so accused that they do not invite to be optimistic either. On the contrary, the performance of byd Six months seen is very different. His actions have grown 55% and in the last year they have shot above 80%. And in recent months the wind blows in favor of the Chinese company. It ended 2024 with the aim of reaching Tesla as the company that sold the most electric cars. He did not get it for little But the smile was not frozen for a long time. The company managed to place itself as The fifth manufacturer who sold more cars In all 2024. a figure in which only plug and electrical hybrid vehicles are contemplated or, as they are called in China, new energy. Unlike others rivals like Saic Or the Geely group, all byd cars take advantage of electricity so they have it more complicated in markets such as Spanish where cheaper and pure combustion cars triumph. However, the prospects for 2025 invite you to be optimistic. The company has sold almost double in the first two months of the year as in the same period of 2023. It is determined to find soil for new factories. In America I intended Install in Mexico But he will have to deal with the restrictions of his own country. In Europe they are already clear that This same year They will decide where they will raise their third floor on our continent (If we count the Turkish as the second of its expansionist plans in Europe). And in China they do not stop launching products to each more striking. If the Chinese electric car market were the Barcelona Club football we could say that they are month than a car. To continue attracting customers, for example, a platform for launch and record you driving. Beyond this curiosity, the real announcement was the confirmation that they will give away their Eye of God In all its vehicles. This is a missile in Tesla’s flotation line. Elon Musk’s company intends that its functions of driving or Autonomous driving (in the future) Be a more source of income. Byd they argue that they are a purchase value in itself and prefers to give them them thinking that the business can be make profitable with other services To enjoy when your eye of God is active. To the latter you have to add your new platform. The Super E-Platform is already ready to ride in its two larger cars and price. The incentive in this case will be his very quick loading times. Next to this platform, the company presented new recharge stations. The combination of both products should be able to load electric cars with peaks up to 1,000 kW. That is, the power that had so far been thought to recharge electric trucks. With such a charge power, Byd says that 400 kilometers of autonomy can be recharged in five minutes. The recharge time would be matching the time we spent pouring gasoline. This last announcement has served the company to receive a tremendous push in the stock market. In what we have been, their shares have risen almost 13% and strengthens the sustained growth of the last year until its historical maximum. It remains to be seen if Tesla manages to recover and get out of the stumbling block in which … Read more

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