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What began as a patch after the blackout is already the new normality of Spain: more energy through gas

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After the blackout of April 28, which exposed the fragility of the electrical system at times of high renewable penetration, Red Electrica has imposed a new way of operating: A reinforcement system based on greater activation of combined gas cycles. What was born as an emergency measure has become a new normality. Spain returns to gas, not due to lack of renewables, but because – for now – it cannot only trust them. And it will stay for a while … Since the end of April, the system operator maintains a reinforced operating mode to guarantee stability. Such as has confirmed ELECTRICAL TO ELECONOMISTA.es, this measure will remain in force while the technical solutions agreed to avoid new incidents are implemented. The incident report concludes that there was a lack of dynamic control on the network, unexpected disconnections and vulnerabilities in tension regulation. The first changes are already underway: Royal Decree-Law 7/2025 He has started A battery of reforms, from the incentive of storage to the flexibility of access for hybrid facilities. However, the sector coincides: the total implementation will take time. Some urgent measures have a deadline until September, but others – as the reform of adjustment services or changes in the distribution network – will be extended until June 2026. Reinforcement, therefore, is not transitory. Renewable yes, but they are not enough. And this situation occurs in a fairly paradoxical context. Spain is producing more energy than ever: in May the lowest wholesale prices in recent history were recorded –With many hours in negative prices-, thanks to the thrust of wind, solar and hydraulic. So, the question comes back: why does it return to gas? The key is in the foul storage and demand variability. The renewable generation is abundant during the day, but it falls dramatically at dusk, just when consumption remains high by heat waves. No batteries or pumping To store the surplusThe system needs firmness. And that firmness, today, gives it the gas. They have just launched an “antiapages insurance.” The government is aware of the risk. That is why he has formally activated the implementation of capacity markets, a tool that had been studying for years and now accelerates after the blackout. It is a mechanism that remunerates for being available, not only to produce, and that seeks to keep firm technologies operational – like gas or storage – to guarantee the supply even in critical conditions. After the authorization included in Royal Decree-Law 7/2025, the Ministry for Ecological Transition You can give way to the specific resolution that sets two key parameters to activate these mechanisms: the lost load value (Voll), at € 22,879/MWh, and a reliability standard (Lole) of 1.5 hours a year. The objective of the Executive is clear: launch the first auctions before the end of 2025 and ensure that the gas plants that requested their closure (9,000 MW in total) can remain available while a structural solution arrives. And prices rise again. June closed with an important rebound in the wholesale price of electricity, after the historical minimums of April and May. The heat wave, the increase in demand and the greater participation of the combined gas cycles fired the average cost in the market to levels not seen in months. The consumers’ invoice with regulated rate has noticed it: it has been the third consecutive monthly climb, According to the official CNMC simulator data. In addition, in the free market, some marketers are transferring these cost overruns to their customers, even without a contractual clause that allows it. This has motivated A FACUA WARNINGwhich remembers that raising rates unilaterally is illegal if it is not expressly foreseen in the contract. In some cases, surcharges of up to 6 % per year have been notified under the argument of greater technical costs, which could constitute an abusive clause according to consumer defense regulations. Structural challenge. The April blackout uncovered deficiencies that were already there: an excessively centralized system, little storage, few micro -redes and little local reaction capacity to disturbances. The solution does not go through abandonable, but by complementing them. The gas, for now, plays that role. But the challenge is to do so in the future the storage, demand management and a more robust network. That requires difficult time, investment and political decisions. Image | Pexels and Pixabay Xataka | Broady in April, more expensive invoice in May: thus has affected the system reinforcement

The loss of the Broadcom chips factory is a malazo for Spain. Now you have to trust everything to your plan B

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For Spain lose the packaging plant Integrated circuits that Broadcom was going to build on Spanish soil is a real maza. And it is for several reasons of weight. The most obvious is that the presence of a factory of this American company would place the country on the European map of The production of advanced substrates. And, in addition, presumably would generate high qualification jobs, would develop the technological ecosystem of the area in which new investment would finally be installed and attracted. As we explain yesterday, this project finally It will not come to fruition. The leaks ensure that the negotiation held by the Spanish government and the Broadcom directive since July 2023 entered a man -dead point several months ago. There is no doubt that it was a very interesting plan for Spain, but, fortunately, it is not the only project that seeks to develop the local semiconductor industry and increase the relevance of Spanish companies in the global market of integrated circuits. These projects give Spain the opportunity to grow in the chips industry The installation that we can see in the cover photography of this article is the authentic protagonist of one of the most important projects that Spain is developing in the sector that concerns us: INNOFAB. The image building is the Alba synestron, which is housed in the Catalan town of Cerdanyola del Vallès, just 6 km from the center of Barcelona. And his role in the Innofab project will be crucial. An note before moving forward: a syncrotron is an electrons of circular electrons used to analyze atomic level the properties of matter, such as various types of materials, or even proteins. The Spanish institution that is involved in this Plan is the Barcelona Microelectronics Institute belonging to the CSIC (IMB-CNM-CSIC), a center that has a lot of experience in both microelectronics and in advanced techniques for integrated circuit manufacturing. INNOFAB will be a state -of -the -art semiconductor factory which will be housed next to the Alba syrrtron. It will cost approximately 392 million euros and will be financed with funds from the Next Generation Plan of the European Union, as well as with capital contributed by the governments of Spain and the Generalitat. Innofab’s construction works will begin soon with the purpose of the plant starting chips production in 2028 Construction works will begin soon with the purpose of the plant starting chips in 2028. This project is led by the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and will reside very close to the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Its purpose is to develop, as I have mentioned a few lines above, next -generation integrated circuits, but it will not be conventional chips; They will be semiconductors in which advanced materials, such as graphene, will be used to unmark silicon semiconductors whose production It is controlled by Asia and the USA. When the INNOFAB factory is ready, the ALBA particle accelerator will allow to analyze the candidate materials to be used in the production of semiconductors atomic. And also the properties of integrated avant -garde circuits. An important note is that Innofab will not produce chips in large quantities; Your role will be to develop advanced technologies which will then be commercially exploited in other plants. This role in a way justifies that its cost is somewhat less than 400 million euros. In any case, Innofab is not the only project dedicated to the chips that Spain is developing. The Godic plan It seeks to develop the necessary technologies to make possible the large -scale manufacture of polyristaline silicon carbide. This initiative is framed within the belonging of microelectronics and semiconductors (popularly known as the chip) and has a budget of 3.3 million euros to which the State contributes by assuming 68% of the total cost. It sounds good, but there is more than we should not overlook: the reason why this project is so important to Europe and Spain. The Godic plan seeks to develop the necessary technologies to make possible the large -scale manufacture of polyristaline silicon carbide The current situation of tension in geopolitical and geostrategic fields That they support the US and Europe on one side, and China to the other, it is promoting that the old continent is doing everything in its hand to reinforce its supply chain linked to the integrated circuit industry. Its purpose is put an end to its deep dependence of Asian suppliers in general, and of China in particular, so having a manufacturing plant of their own silicon carbide is crucial on the road to this objective. It is for Spain and also for Europe because it currently lacks this resource. The Diosic project began its journey at the end of 2023 and will last 26 months, so presumably the Spanish companies involved in it will conclude the development of innovations that are necessary to carry it forward in early 2026. Or, perhaps, if everything goes like silk, at the end of 2025. Anyway it is important that we do not overlook that beyond consolidating the independence of Spain and Europe Cost of the production of integrated circuits by 30%, and, at the same time, increase their yield by 35%. Before concluding this article, it is worth not overlooking another project that is also very important for Spain: the set -up The new European pilot line that pursues Lead the integration and encapsulation of components and electronic systems. The Spanish institution that is involved in this plan is the CSIC Barcelona Microelectronics Institute (IMB-CNM-CSIC), a center that has a lot of experience in both microelectronics and in advanced techniques for manufacturing integrated circuits. Any initiative that increases the competitiveness of Europe in a strategic industry such as semiconductors must be welcome “We intend to work on two approaches depending on whether the evacuation of high heat densities is required, as in the case of the ASIC, or if what is sought is a homogeneous distribution of temperature, more applicable to … Read more

What is seen at the bottom of the map is an extreme anticyclonic dorsal. And that is what is going to put Spain again to boil

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It is a story that has been repeated from the beginning of summer: an anticyclonic dorsal will dominate the atmosphere on our heads, which in turn implies the return of heat. The return to 40º. The next few days will be, again, of extreme heat. The State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) has warned of temperatures that They can exceed 40º in large areas of the South and that could also reach 42º in specific areas of the Peninsular South. An extreme dorsal again. The person responsible is a dorsal, and a considerable magnitude: 600 DAMMERS (DAM) Geopotential with the center located in North Africa. This means that we have to ascend about six kilometers in the atmosphere before reaching the point where the atmospheric pressure is 500 hectopascal (HPA), when the “normal” value of this altitude would be around 5.5 km. Although the geopotential in most of the peninsular Spain is rather something above the 594 DAM, this involves “record” levels for this time of year in the southwest peninsular quadrant and part of the center, indicated on Twitter The physicist, meteorologist and disseminator JJ German. Stability and sun. The dorsals They imply An anticyclonic context that in turn entails stability and clear skies and high insolation. If we add its ability to drag air from North Africa and its recurrence we will see with a situation like this, a summer that has already served to break numerous records in temperature and other atmospheric variables. Yellow and orange warnings. Temperatures may not reach the levels of previous warm episodes, and the fact that we are already in July (one month on average warmer than June) implies that this geopotential anomaly will not translate into large anomalies. Despite this, mercury will rise enough to Aemet activates various notices associated with extreme temperatures in much of the country between today and Thursday. The orange notices between today and Wednesday will be concentrated in areas of the center and southwest peninsular: Valleles del Tajo, Guadiana and Guadalquivir, especially. On Thursday, extreme heat will also affect the East, with part of the Ebro Valley, La Mancha Albacete and the interior of some Mediterranean provinces under orange warning. High maximums and tropical nights. The agency’s prediction For these days they talk about temperatures that “will exceed 38-40 (Grada) in large areas of the southern half of the Atlantic aspect” tomorrow Wednesday, with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley, being able to exceed 42º. The forecasts for Thursday will be somewhat less extreme, although the 35º will be exceeded in most of the southern half and in the northern plateau. As if this were not enough, the minimums will also remain high: large areas of the south and the Mediterranean basin will see how mercury does not fall from the 20º. Again the Guadalquivir Valley would be the most affected Peninsula area: the minimum could stay here above 25º, that is, we could see the return of the “Equatorial nights” Change of trend. For now, the dorsals have alternated with tormentous episodes driven by vaguadas, danas or other phenomena associated with a low pressures zone. This week the pattern will be repeated with a thermal relief that will arrive on Friday, accompanied, yes, storms that already concern some experts. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF

Jordi Wild has the most controversial podcast in Spain. And precisely that is what waves have rewarded

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Jordi Wild, one of the undisputed stars of the podcastfera in Spanish, has won a wave In recognition of his career. Of course, Wild is not the first successful podcaster, born completely in the Internet sphere, self -produced outside the radio tradition, which wins the prize. But it is the first that has taken as references to iconic Anglo -Saxon names of the environment and has adapted them to its own style and very well, controversies included. Therefore, that waves is more than recognition of unquestionable success: it is also corroboration by the STABLISHMENT of the radio of one of the most peculiar personalities of the environment. Jordi Wild’s meteoric ascent. The YouTuber and Podcasts created its YouTube channel ‘in 2013The Rincón de Giorgio‘, which initially focused on a derivative and usual content by the time: gameplaysreaction and parodies videos. Soon he began to enter other issues, such as current debates and issues related to criminal psychology. In 2020 He started his podcast ‘The Wild Project‘. Although it is a bit complicated to calibrate its reach, On YouTube It approaches the 7 million subscribers, more almost 90,000 in podimo. His possible millions of listeners make him one of the most influential and followed podcasts in Spanish. Joe Rogan’s shadow. Jordi Wild has several times that One of its greatest influences To create and develop The Wild Project is Joe Rogan and his podcast ‘The Joe Rogan Experience‘. It was he who inspired him in the search for a format of long, deep interviews and without censorshipwhere the guest is the protagonist and all kinds of topics are addressed, not necessarily linked to its knowledge area. Other influences that Wild has cited in its programs, notoriously always American, are Howard Stern, David Letterman or Johnny Carson, of which he values his ability to face all kinds of guests. Podcasts in the waves. Since 2016 the podcasts have a presence in the waves, the awards to the media, programs and those responsible that since 1954 delivers the SER. That year The award for the best program, radio or radio online broadcast platform was given to Podium Podcast (hurry owned). Since then, programs such as ‘Xrey’, ‘Weekly deform’, ‘stretching the gum’, ‘Titania’ or ‘La Ruina’ this year have been awarded. But in addition, podcasts began to be specifically rewarded in Podcast Global Wave Wave Awards From 2022, an initiative in collaboration with Spotify to recognize and give visibility to the podcast industry in Spanish. The first delivery gala was held in May 2022 in Malaga. It is in this context that Jordi Wild has received a Special Recognition Prize for his career. Opening of sights. In this way, the waves open the door to a completely Anglo -Saxon style of influence, without equivalents in Spain at the level of success and scope, and that distances themselves from the winners so far, which enter into fields (audioficctions, humor and conversational, sound trials) that have always been present on the radio. The in -depth and uncensored interview style that Wild represents is Pure Podcasta land where There are no time limits and the programs They do not have thematic clippers and of format that does have traditional radio. The bleaching of Giorgio. But Jordi Wild’s program is not devoid of controversy, and has received abundant criticism, especially for the freedom of expression he presumes, and that has earned him criticism of both conservative and progressive sectors. He has been accused of giving voice to characters of controversial ideologies, which has generated debates about whether your whitish space extreme right speeches or spread Fake News under the appearance of open debate. Wild has always defended his decision to invite people of all ideologies and reject any attempt of external censorship or pressure. Some of his guests have given him controversies who have had a deep impact on his image, as was the Presence of former Villarejo Commissioner or the recent presence of A lifeguard Tiktoker which presumed to attract bathers to dangerous areas to get the hero. What waves wants. And this controversial image is the one that waves have rewarded, because it is what is most distant from the traditional radio. The search for the cut that is viralized in networks is what distance to programs such as The Wild Project of traditional radio, and it is what makes this prize especially relevant: the waves give visibility to a typology of podcast that until now had not had official recognition for being especially controversial and controversial. Podcast awards. In general, the prizes of the mainstream (In any field of creation) to their representatives less pigeonholed by traditional formats they usually reach the wrong (that’s why Jordi Wild receives an award for his career: he has been working for years: his style has been working for years). But they are always a sign that something moves within the traditional mass media: we cannot expect them to recognize the avant -garde, but it is still a warning that at least they are looking in the same direction as the public and the creators who carry the lead. 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“An anticyclone arrives in Spain” is usually good news. On this occasion it is an advance of the coming hell: the 40ºC

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The Dana that during the last days has downloaded important rainfall in the north and east of the Peninsula has gone down in history. After the brief thermal relief that this depression brought, meteorologists have their eyes on the situation of the atmosphere for the new week. The 40º appear again. And what indicates the situation of the atmosphere is a new turn towards extreme temperatures: again It is expected that the thermometers exceed in some areas the imaginary barrier of the 40º Celsius. With extreme heat, in addition, the “equatorial nights” could return. Shield against the storms. After the passage of a Dana through the north and east of the Peninsula, the anticyclonic time will become strong over our territory for most of this week. An anticyclone will keep a stormy train at the next few days, diverting them towards higher latitudes. The anticyclonic time will allow heat to accumulate again thanks to a high insolation and new warm air incursions from Africa. Again, heat. The forecasts From the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) they point out that tomorrow, Tuesday 15, temperatures will exceed 35º in the south with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley being able to exceed 40º. On Wednesday 16 the situation will be aggravated, with the thermometers exceeding 38º in much of the southern half and with areas of the Guadalquivir Valley again above 40º. Tropical nights. Aemet also warns that minimal temperatures will also rise during these days, first in the southern half of the Atlantic aspect and from Wednesday in more extensive areas. According to these forecaststhe thermometers will not lower the 20-22 degrees in large areas of the southern peninsular half, and it is expected that during Thursday these minimums do not fall from the 25º in areas of the Guadalquivir. That is, some areas will return to the so -called “equatorial nights.” To the third, the defeated. The situation could be attenuated towards the end of the week. The models indicate that the anticyclone responsible for the heat that awaits us will gradually move to the east. Thus, the third of the storms that will circulate during this week will not be fully blocked by the anticyclone and could affect the north and east of the Peninsula from Friday. In Xataka | The hydrological bonanza could not be eternal: drought is a real threat after an extremely warm, and also dry June Image | ECMWF

If Spain is hooked today to programs like ‘OT’ or ‘Big Brother’ is due to a single man: Toni Cruz

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Toni Cruz’s death last Friday at 78 serves us to radiograph the Current Cathodic Business Status. And above all, it is a reliable evidence that those who were architects of television as we know it are retiring or dying (that is, the one that the first years of the private ones were configured). Although for years it was not in front of the camera, its role has been key in some of the greatest successes of recent years. Great successes. Gestmusic launched, in collaboration with public and private channels, great success programs such as’Operation Triunfo‘,’Big Brother‘ either ‘Martian chronicles‘, being a cross essential part of the design and development of these programs. Little can be added to the founding importance of the three: our primeR talent showour first reality and an unclassifiable but very influential program that reached stratospheric audiences at an impossible schedule. The thing did not end there, and with the passage of time, Gestmusic was generating variants of these primal formats, with successes like ‘Rain of stars’, ‘Your face sounds to me’, ‘You do vouchers’, ‘Do not laugh that it is worse’ or ‘Look who dances!’ Cruz and Mainat ended up selling their part of Gestmusic to Endemol in 2017. The Baron of Bidet. For the general public, Toni Cruz became famous since the end of the sixties and even entered the eighties with the trench, in the company of Josep Maria Mainat and Miquel àngel Pasqual. With them he co -length several successful television programs, such as ‘No Passa Res’ (TV3) and ‘Tariro, Tariro’ (TVE), which led him to a large extent how television worked inside. The next step was clear. Gestmusic arrives. In 1987 the trench published its latest album (‘Marro!’) And created the producer Gestmusic. Its foundation coincided with the arrival of private televisions and the massification of regional and local, and their success catapulted when one of the trio members, Pasqual, left the producer due to health problems and sold its part of Gestmusic to one of the most powerful multinationals in the audiovisual world, the Dutch Endemolcreator of the original ‘Big Brother’ format. Two rode together. In a relatively short period of time, two very relevant proper names have disappeared from the national industry, perhaps those that have best defined the tone and style of mass television of the 21st century. Almost three years ago It was Paolo Vasile, who left his position as CEO of Mediaset. Without it we would not have had a format as influential as’Save me‘, in addition to giving green light to programs produced by Cruz himself, such as’ Big Brother’. Between the two agglutinate (one as creative force, another as necessary administrative work from the most successful channel dome for many years) the mass of headers with the greatest impact in Spain in recent decades. It is no longer just about the success of audience of programs such as ‘Operation Triunfo’ or ‘Big Brother’, but beyond the obvious (these two franchises continue to add editions today), their seal is still very present in current programs of great impact. The legacy. For example, one of the most successful programs today is ‘Your face sounds to me’, which has reached maximum of 25.1% quota: it is the nth variant of the ‘Operation Triunfo’ template (interpretation of pop standards, jury, skill), but with the template of “the contestants are famous”. A template that is lately devouring all competitions and realities… And that Gestmusic also invented with the very thunder and unclassifiable ‘Big Brother’ with Celebrities That was ‘Hotel Glam’. Martian chronicles follow. And not only that: the studied balance of dynamics of order and chaos of ‘Martian chronicles’ continues to be in more harmless formats, such as’El Hormiguero‘(He shares part of his production team with the Sardá program). And, of course, with all kinds of pink information programs, starting with ‘Save Me’, also essential to understand the current television formats. So far, so close. Gestmusic and Vasile gave some of the last chest that the industry has lived, taking into account that many of the current success formats are variations of ‘Big Brother’, ‘Operation Triunfo’. Television has always lived to cannibalize its own hits, so regardless of the issues about its future, what is very clear is that Cruz has been an essential part of understanding television in recent decades, and as we have reached what we have now. Header | RTVE – Gestmusic In Xataka | Thirty years later, there is still an unbeatable television format in Spain: desktop soap operas

that Spain ends like other European countries

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Torre Pacheco is a Murcia town of just over 40,000 inhabitants, a municipality that basically lives from agriculture and in which almost a third of the population is foreign. His name does not usually sneak into the headlines of the international press, but today they talk about him analysts in half Europe. The reason: a wave of unrest directed against immigrants who remembers what has lived in 2000 in The ejido (Andalusia) or those that have been registered in recent years in different parts of Europe, such as Dublin or more recently BallymenaUnited Kingdom. With the exception perhaps of El Ejido so far Spain had dodged that wave. The question seen what happened in Murcia is … Will it remain so? What happened? That Torre Pacheco, a town of 40,000 inhabitants From the region of Mar Menor, in Murcia, it has become national and international news, monopolizing headlines in the means of reach of The Guardian either The Telegraph. The reason? An outbreak of violence against the immigrant population of the municipality after a 68 -year -old neighbor received a brutal beating, an aggression that the authorities are still investigating (there are Two detainees) but that in the street (and networks) was attributed to young Moroccans. Why is it news? That what happened in Torre Pacheco has had an impact beyond the regional press responds to several reasons. The first, the scope of the riots. EFE He spoke This morning of eight detainees, five Spaniards and three Maghreb. The balance of injured Attended by emergency services due to gaps, blows and trauma is even greater. The wave of violence reached such a level that on the weekend the Civil Guard had to reinforce your presence. The trigger. The altercations have also been news for their political context and the role that the networks have played. The spark that jumped the riots was the beating that a 68 -year -old neighbor received on Wednesday while taking a walk. In An interview with The Spanish The victim said that a “Moroccan boy” was shouted at him and gave him “a stake” while other young people recorded him. At the moment the police have arrested Two Maghreb 21 and 22 who, although they did not participate in the aggression, were present. None reside in the town. From the beating the “hunt”. The event led the City Council to organize A manifestation to claim a “crime free” town and unleashed indignation in networks. Outrage and Fake News. Shortly after the case began to circulate A video that supposedly showed the beating, in addition to images in which the faces of the assumptions aggressors were identified. The victim herself He has made clear That the person seen in the video is not him, but that did not prevent the material from circulating through networks with ultras group messages for “hunt” immigrants. “They have come from outside the municipality to provoke because they know we live here,” he said to The country Omar, a 25 -year -old. Is it the first time? No. What happened these days in Torre Pacheco reminds in some ways the incidents that were lived 25 years ago In the ejido (Andalusia), although the balance of arrested and injured there was quite greater. The trigger on that occasion was three murders perpetrated by Moroccans in a matter of two weeks. Latest From them he was committed by an immigrant with paranoid schizophrenia who ended the stabbing of a young woman in a market in Santa María del Águila, which in turn unleashed one wave of violence that left dozens of injured. If this weekend could be seen altercations Between ultras and immigrants in Torre Pacheco, people were seen in the ejido of 2000 armed with bars Iron attacking immigrants and destroying premises. The tumults extended Between February 5 and 7 and forced the government to strengthen The presence of the Civil Guard and National Police, which did not prevent the episode from resorting with Several dozens of injured and damage. “Organized xenophobic groups have set fire to which immigrants are housed, which scared hide from the games of neighbors armed with sticks and chains that run through the streets,” He reported by then ABC. Beyond Spain. What happened in Murcia is news for another reason: it connects with more or less similar episodes registered over the last years in other countries in Europe. The details or scope change, but not the target: immigration. In November 2023 A series of stabbing unleashed a wave of violent protests against foreigners in Dublin and a few weeks ago an alleged violation case resulted in unrest Xenophobes in Northern Ireland. In Sweden and Denmark protests have also been convened during which copies of the Qur’an have burned, Belgium has suffered racist disturbances and in February the AP agency It echoed of migrants who have received an “increase in racist attacks” in Magdeburg after the attack against a local Christmas market. On the social agenda. There are also mass mobilizations of opposite sign, in which xenophobia is denounced. In March without going any further, France welcomed several marches with tens of thousands of participants who rose against hate to foreigners. The phenomenon confirms in any case that racism has an increasing importance in the social and political agenda of Europe, an boom that coincides with The progressive strengthening of the extreme right. What is the context? Cases such as Torre Pacheco, Ejido or Dublin incidents of 2023 are framed in a clear context: The increase of the immigrant population in Europe. In February Euronews revealed which in 2024 resided in the 27 community countries around 44.7 million citizens born outside the EU, which represents almost 10% of the total population. The data reveals a remarkable year -on -year increase, of 2.3 million. The countries with the highest number of people born abroad were, in order, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. At least in 2019 near DL 30% From the population of Torre Pacheco, in which agriculture … Read more

Spain finally runs out of the Broadcom chips factory. This US company has broken with the government

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At the beginning of July 2023 Charlie Kawwas, the president of the Broadcom subsidiary specialized in the manufacture of semiconductors, announced that your company had reached an agreement with the Government of Spain to build An advanced integrated circuit factory on Spanish soil. Its budget touched the 1,000 million dollars (about 850 million euros), and although it never became completed its location for several months a filtration anticipated that this plant would stay in Zaragoza. According to Kawwas, these facilities were going to be specialized in Substrate manufacturing And they would help this American company reinforce its position in the semiconductor production market. For Spain, the construction of this factory was great news because it would place the country on the European map of The production of advanced substrates. And, in addition, presumably would generate high qualification jobs and develop the technological ecosystem of the area in which it finally be installed. Unfortunately this project will not come to fruition. Broadcom has back According to the Europa Press agencyBroadcom will finally not build its factory in Spain. The negotiation that this company maintained and the Spanish government has been broken, apparently. At the moment it has not transcended the reason why this project will not prosper, but according to Europa Press Donald Trump’s return To the White House has been able to exercise as a death sentence in a context in which the commercial relationship between the US and Europe goes through a very complicated moment. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end he did not curdle,” In fact, the arrival of Trump ended another project in which the Spanish government intended to invest 400 million euros to establish a company joint with an American company. Its purpose was also to build a chips manufacturing plant. “That collapsed by Trump. It was a very interesting operation and in the end it did not curdle. Right now there is a feeling that US companies are very restricted when investing in Europe, ” has declared One of the sources of Europa Press. It makes sense. The administration led by Trump pursues reinforce your local semiconductor industryso it is perfectly credible to be zancadilleando the plans of US companies that plan to invest outside the US. On the other hand, the construction of a avant -garde semiconductor manufacturing plant usually costs Between 20,000 and 30,000 million eurosso it is evident that the factory that Broadcom was going to be tuned in Spain was not going to be at all toe. Even so, it is a pity that this project has been frustrated. Image | Chris Hsia More information | Europa Press In Xataka | Chips manufacturers are coming from pearls to attract them. These are your reasons to come

Spain studies the viability of its first conventional aircraft carrier. We can expect sitting

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There was a time when Spain was one of the great powers of the sea. Gone are those times when even The US feared, for various reasons, the Spanish Navybut these last times have resurfaced interest in strengthening security in this environment. Projects like him New Bac II Combat Ship They are ours and, now, Navantia has a new commission: studying the viability of the first conventional aircraft of Spain. It will not be easy, but the project is tremendously ambitious. Studying possibilities. A few weeks ago, and how we read in The countrythe Navy commissioned the public shipyard Navantia a viability study on the construction of an aircraft carrier. The shipyard must specify the technical characteristics of the ship and pass budget data that, subsequently, the Government must approve, but although all the details to be specified, as we read in The debatethere are already those who point to the modern French carrier Charles de Gaulle as inspiration. What Spain wants. Unlike the French flagship, the new Spanish carrier would not be a nuclear aircraft carrier, but it would have similar dimensions, with more than 260 meters in length and about 40,000 tons. What is clear is that, as we say, it will be the first pure aircraft carrier that the Navy will have, and this must be clarified. In 67, the US ceded the Labyrinth To the Navy, then Navantia built The ruinous prince of Asturias And, currently, we have the Juan Carlos i. The three have space for both helicopters and airplanes, but although they have a ramp, they have an important limitation: the airplanes that can land and deploy are the Stovl, which start the movement in vertical. And what is the problem? That limits the model that you can operate, and with current AV-8B Harrier II That they ask for the time, it is urgent to have an aircraft carrier that is able to house more modern fighters and without so much dependence on the United States. For example, the FCAS Developed together by France, Spain and Germany. If in the end it has a naval version, of course. According to EFEthe intention of the Navy is that it has a cover with capacity for up to 30 state -of -the -art aircraft. Officially, Juan Carlos I is a “Ampibio assault ship” India comes into play. As they point in Infodefensethe development of a traditional aircraft carrier (without being electromagnetic Like those who already operate China and USA) or with nuclear propulsion as the aforementioned Charles de Gaulle, it should not be a challenge for Navantia. “Simply” will be expensive, it will take time and will have a lot of steel, but the technology is more than settled. And here Navantia can have an advantage as “training”: Türkiye. Navantia has already made some designs for Türkiye, such as TCG Anadolu which became the jewel of the Turkish Navy crown and, as we read in Infodefensethe Spanish company would also be developing with Türkiye a traditional aircraft carrier of more than 300 meters. It will be something that serves to acquire even more experience in this type of vehicles. Strategic strength. Having a “pure” aircraft carrier is necessary for Spain in the current context of geopolitical tensions, even with allies that we considered as close as the United States. Within the European Rearme Processit is also something that makes sense, as much as countries and France and the United Kingdom have collaborated to “Add” your nuclear arsenals. An aircraft carrier, even A vehicle with a very expensive maintenanceit is an important element of deterrence due to its implications, something that we have recently seen in the Tensions in the South China Sea. To Japan, that for years It was a demilitarized nationalready started moving in this regard and has already presented its First aircraft carrier since World War II. For long. On the other hand, there is no hurry for this first Spanish aircraft carrier. Those hurries will arrive when the Harrier are retired, because the F35B Americans, but as we said, there is on its way to go. If everything is fulfilled, we would be talking about the first aircraft carrier for about fifteen years, but to reach that point the Navantia report must convince the government and he authorize its construction. Image In Xataka | The size of the armies of the main powers, summarized in this interesting graphic

Spain is the favorite caramel of hackers

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Spain already has the third most attacked domain in the world, the .es. It only has a .com and .ru, a fact accompanied by reports that suggest that cybersecurity incidents 64% have increased in the country Regarding the previous year. A situation that It does not improve despite the response of Europe And that raises an immediate question: what does Spain have to be so sweet? And one more. Cofensecompany specialized in defense against phishing, has detected a increase of up to 19 times more attacks on domains. in the period between the last quarter of 2024 and the first of 2025. 99% of these attacks focused on phishing. The other 1% went to distribute different remote access Trojans. The method. The growing attacks on addresses. They use one of the simplest methods to infect a computer: email. Simulating Microsoft addresses. From these C2 servers (Command & Control) the attackers can send personalized commands to the computer. In other words: Capture the screen Register what you write Activate or deactivate the camera and microphone of the PC Access PC files Why Spain. Spain is one of the whites more attractive in the world for cybercriminals. Experts like Francisco Valencia, director of Hackrisk.io, points to several reasons for this to happen. Strong international presence of Spanish companies. Geographic position as a bridge between Europe and America (submarine cables such as Marea, Grace Hopper) Changes in the global context after Brexit and deviation of attention to countries such as the United Kingdom. They are not the only suspects. The rapid digitalization of companies after the arrival of European funds The attack radius increasedweaknesses in small and medium enterprises, and a public administration exposed to vulnerabilitiesand geopolitical interest in the country make Spain The second objective with more cyber thrames detected globally. The impact. Some of the cyber attacks received in recent weeks are making the Spanish administration itself, preventing access to the systems of some municipalities in the country, and having affected authorities such as CNMCeither national companies like Repsol and Telefónica. Recent cases. While I write these lines, Spain is mired in two cyber attacks that have left KO the systems of two municipalities. The first is that of Melillawhich adds two weeks under an attack whose authorship a Russian group has been awarded, and the second one that of a small Alicante municipality that has suffered the same fate: Villajoyosa. The answer. In May 2025, the Council of Ministers approved a package of 1,157 million euros To reinforce national cybersecurity, a budget distributed between defense, digital transformation and public function, interior and the Department of National Security. The focus is being put also in processing the transposition of the NIS2 directives and the EU Regulation Dora. In other words, force the critical sectors of the country (energy, telecommunications, health, finance …) to notify cybersecurity incidents and implement more robust risk management systems. At the moment, none of the efforts seems to be materializing in real improvements. In Xataka | How to change all our passwords according to three cybersecurity experts

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