Closing the three nuclear power plants in Catalonia (Ascó I, Ascó II, and Vandellòs II) would cost Catalan industry 280 million euros per year. This is the main conclusion of a study by the consultancy firm Deloitte, presented this Tuesday at the Cercle d'Economia in Barcelona. For the whole of Spain, which is less dependent on nuclear power than Catalonia, the cost would be around 1.4 billion euros. The report is based on the premise that energy costs represent 25% of industry's operating profit, and therefore, the more electricity saved, the more competitive industry will be.

Indra has been restructuring its top management for several months, with recent changes in president and CEO, and the incorporation of new high-level directives. This reinforcement of the technology and defense company's top level also reaches Catalonia, where the company chaired by Àngel Simón has appointed a new territorial director, Enric Blasco. Furthermore, a lifelong banker, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri – he was CEO of BBVA, president of Bankia, and president of CaixaBank – is making the leap into the fashion world as a new independent director of Inditex, the company controlled by Amancio Ortega which owns brands such as Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, and Bershka, among others.

La Sagrada Família is a Catholic church, a monument, and a tourist attraction. But it is also one of the economic engines of the city of Barcelona, both for the business it indirectly generates, for example through tourism, and also for its direct business volume, for the investments it makes, and for the jobs it creates. The figures are clear: in 2025, the basilica closed with generated income of 134.5 million euros. A turnover that has been growing in recent years.

A judge in Terrassa has sentenced a businessman to two and a half years in prison for the death of an employee, a truck driver, whose tire burst while he was driving on the highway, causing him to lose control and crash into a sign, resulting in his death. According to the sentence, the cause of the accident was the poor condition of the vehicle's tires.

Changes in the governing bodies or management positions of companies are not only driven by new hires. Sometimes, departures gain more weight. In just a few days, two of the main Ibex-35 companies have experienced this firsthand: Naturgy and Indra. In fact, a question mark hangs over the composition of their boards of directors due to the departure in Indra's case of the Escribano brothers, who held 14.3% of the company's share capital, while at Naturgy, it was the English investment fund CVC (13.8%) that divested. Other musical chairs are added to these movements.

Xavier Berneda, executive director and co-owner of the Catalan sneaker manufacturer Munich, receives the ARA shortly before giving a talk at a meeting of the Catalan Fashion Cluster (Modacc) at Món Sant Benet, in Bages. As expected, he wears the X symbol on his feet and jacket, which is also sported by many of the collaborators who greet him.

Endesa, through its subsidiary e-distribución networks, will invest 264.5 million euros in the electricity distribution network of Catalonia during 2026, a figure that represents an increase of 25.6% compared to last year, as reported by the company this Friday. This investment is the maximum allowed by current regulation.

Musical chairs in the Catalan technology sector. The former CEO of Cellnex – the main telecommunications tower company –, Tobías Martínez, will move to lead Openchip, while Pedro Mier will take over the direction of Open Cosmos. Furthermore, the president of Indra, Àngel Simón, continues with the revolution at the company's top and is already looking for a new CEO, who will possibly be announced this Tuesday, after dismissing José Vicente de los Mozos – seemingly in agreement with the Spanish government –, who is the main shareholder of the technology and defense company.

The manager Asabys Partners, a leading firm in life sciences investment, will launch a new investment fund of up to 120 million euros, primarily aimed at the technological transfer from universities and research centers to create new companies. Asabys has been selected in the Deep Start call, promoted by the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology and Innovation (CDTI) –of the Spanish government– in collaboration with the European Investment Fund (EIF).

The executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, warned this Monday that the cushion offered by commercial reserves accumulated before the war in the Middle East and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will end in a matter of weeks. Reserves "are depleting very rapidly," Birol noted in statements to the press collected by Efe during the first day of the G7 Finance Ministers' meeting in Paris.

After Ángel Escribano left the presidency of Indra and his family exited the capital of the company now chaired by Àngel Simón, both Indra itself and EM&M, of the Escribanos, are strengthening their respective top management. Another notable change of the week is Ramon Alsina's promotion to the presidency of BonÀrea, replacing his father, Jaume Alsina.

Another former politician changes jobs. Former PP minister Luis de Guindos will leave the European Central Bank and will begin collaborating with IESE. A week of changes at the top of GSMA Ltd., the company that organizes the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: John Hoffman becomes president and will be replaced as CEO. And the changes also affect the Mobile World Capital Foundation, from which Francesc Fajula departs. Meanwhile, Banco Sabadell begins a new era with the replacement of its CEO.

The electricity fraud detected in Catalonia in 2025 is equivalent to the consumption of 144,000 homes, meaning the electricity that a city the size of Sant Feliu de Llobregat would consume. This is data from the company Endesa, the main electricity distributor in Catalonia, which in 2025 detected 24,347 cases of electricity fraud in its Catalan electricity grid, equivalent to 67 manipulations per day on average, one every three hours. It is a figure 7% higher than the previous year. In total, more than 486 GWh were defrauded.

María Dolores de Cospedal, former PP politician, has been hired as a counselor for Naturhouse, the company controlled by Félix Revuelta, in a week that has also been marked by Àngel Simón, who is strengthening his position in the leadership of Indra, and Josep Oliu, who is leaving the board of directors of Puig as the Catalan fragrance and cosmetics company negotiates a possible integration with the US giant in the sector, Estée Lauder.

Knowing for sure what caused the massive blackout on April 28 last year, which left the entire Iberian Peninsula in darkness for hours, will be difficult. Several investigations have been carried out so far. Red Eléctrica, ENTSO-E (the European group of system operator companies), the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), the Ministry for Ecological Transition, and others have conducted them. All indicate that there was a combination of circumstances that led to the blackout, but without pointing to anyone in particular.

A few years ago, personal shoppers, people who act as assistants for shopping, became fashionable. Now there is a Catalan start-up that has taken a step further. Is a person needed to accompany you shopping, or with artificial intelligence (AI) technology, is it no longer necessary? The system exists and has already been launched experimentally in some shopping centers, and the first results are quite promising, if we are to believe the feedback from those who have used it.

Seat-Cupra has managed to turn around its results in the first quarter of this year. Despite a decrease in car sales and turnover, the company achieved an operating profit of 43 million euros, 38 million more than in the same period last year, as the company reported this Thursday.

The company Ebro EV Motors, owner of the Ebro brand, lost 16.33 million euros last year –the first full fiscal year manufacturing cars in the Zona Franca–, 31.5% less than in 2024, but its revenues soared to 357 million (+920%), driven by sales of its models, as the company, listed on the BME Growth (the Spanish stock market for SMEs), reported this Tuesday. Revenues multiplied by ten compared to 2024 and those associated with the automotive business amounted to 335 million euros.

Apple announced this week a change in its executive structure. A change of CEO that, beyond the change of names, represents a whole new era for the apple company. In addition, this week the Port of Barcelona announced that it is restructuring its management team.

Has the rent cap in tense areas stopped price increases? No, of course not. The latest data from the Housing Agency of Catalonia, which is based on deposits made to Incasòl, shows that in Catalonia the average rent price is already higher than before the cap came into effect, in the first quarter of 2024. In the city of Barcelona, the average price still does not exceed that of that moment, but throughout 2025 it has been rising and, if instead of the average price we look at the price per square meter, it already exceeds that of before the cap.