1. We have seen ridiculous things in the history of football – a suitable territory for egos needing recognition to let loose – but Donald Trump asking President Infantino to withdraw a red card for Balogun, a forward for the United States team, and the order being immediately executed breaks records for frivolity and indecency. It's not surprising from Trump, because he has been showing off for years and prioritizing his conviction that anything is permissible for him, that there are no limits for him, but it seems to be a vice that contaminates. The anecdote comes at a time when the contradictions his uncontrolled ego has led him to are generating accelerated disrepute that is already directly impacting the United States, where awareness of the president's irresponsibility is spreading. The way he acts, doing and undoing, means that, for example, in Venezuela he today supports those he wanted to overthrow yesterday, or that in the Middle East the impasse his delusions have led him to is giving life to the totalitarian regime of the Iranian ayatollahs, who have abruptly curbed his excesses by exposing him for what he is.

Europe is facing a new climatic reality. Extreme, long, and historic heatwaves are becoming increasingly frequent and are one of the most evident faces of a climate crisis that demands urgent responses. The episode of high temperatures affecting a large part of the continent this June (also in places where it was previously unthinkable) is breaking records in several countries and is the result of global warming caused by human activity and the accumulation of greenhouse gases. And it is no coincidence: Europe is the continent that is warming fastest on the planet and the impacts are already visible on health, agriculture, ecosystems, and water availability.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, has hit the wall of European regulation. As the Reuters agency had already reported, the company will not receive permission to operate under the European crypto-asset law, MiCA, before the transition period ends on June 30. The company founded by Changpeng Zhao, it should be remembered, sought to obtain regulatory clearance in Greece, where market sources assure that it expected to find institutions "more lenient" in their application of the European directive.

A new episode of intense and widespread heat is setting record highs across much of Western and Central Europe. Sustained high temperatures for several days and sleepless nights are affecting countries accustomed to heat this week—though not this early—such as France, Catalonia, Spain, and Italy, and parts of the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany, where it is increasingly less exceptional for the mercury to soar. The impact of the heatwave on health is high, and several states have issued meteorological alerts to warn the population of dehydration, heatstroke, and even death.

For days, Madrid has been a hub for major events – the Pope's visit coincided with ten Bad Bunny concerts – and European trade unionism has wanted to do its bit. This week, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) chose the Palacio Vistalegre in the Spanish capital as a stage for a show of strength, but also to warn Europe that it will act as a containment wall against all proposals that, in its opinion, represent a step backwards in labor rights and human rights.

The journalist Claudi Pérez, international correspondent for El País, publishes the book Las invasiones bárbaras, a mix between an essay and journalistic chronicle about the crises that have shaken the world during the first quarter of this century, with a special focus on Europe and its role in the new international order.

Discovering Europe without worries and with the convenience of having everything organized is the perfect proposal for the second half of the year. From Barcelona, these short and medium-distance trips offer cultural routes, urban getaways, and itineraries through the most attractive corners of the continent, always with an accompanying guide, all visits included, and full board. A comfortable, safe, and enriching way to travel, designed to enjoy each destination with peace of mind and without unforeseen events.Eurovacances Travel, with 40 years of experience in the sector and with three offices –Barcelona, Granollers and Girona–, offers you proposals along these lines for the months of September, October and November.

The heat arrives, and with it the peak months for tourism in Catalonia. This year the season kicks off after a record first quarter. Catalonia received the highest number of visitors in this period in the last decade between January and April, and it's also the year they have spent the most.

The word rearmament has been occupying headlines for months. In an increasingly unstable and fierce world order, where armed conflicts are multiplying and major global actors are setting aside diplomatic channels and rendering current international law null and void, it seems inevitable that states must invest in weapons to guarantee their sovereignty and, in general, their medium-term future.

The Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating an attack with a bladed weapon suffered by a follower of the Europa football club this Sunday in Nou Barris, after the promotion match that the Gracienc team played against Celta B. The fan was seriously injured in the stomach, but his life is not in danger. The Catalan police arrested the alleged aggressor that same afternoon not far from the scene, after he tried to flee and hide in a building entrance.

The Cercle d'Economia is approaching its annual conferences, increasingly focused on the health of the European project, with a touch of pessimism. In the opinion note prior to this year's meeting, which will be held between June 1 and 3 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, the entity warns of the "fractures" and "divisions" that risk the Twenty-seven's ability to become autonomous in an increasingly disjointed world.

The 22@, Barcelona's technology district, has a new building with open-plan offices, modern spaces, and multilingual workers. This time, however, it is the largest coworking space in Southern Europe by surface area. It is located just a ten-minute walk from Plaça de les Glòries and covers 20,000 square meters, including a gym, swimming pool, climbing wall, terraces, a restaurant, a games room, and a slide that goes from the first floor to the ground floor.

A program that can remotely activate the microphone and camera of a mobile phone or access message history. Software capable of scanning real-time traffic to identify people and generate profiles. A device that connects to a computer or mobile phone and can download all its information by bypassing passwords. These and other technologies manufactured in member states of the European Union too often end up in the hands of governments that violate human rights, despite current legislation to prevent it. This is the main conclusion of the report "Looking the Other Way" published this Tuesday by the NGO Human Rights Watch, which denounces that the European Union's mechanisms to prevent these exports have failed.

Catalonia is one of the territories with the most clinical trials active in the world. In 2025 it participated in 5,768 studies, which catapulted it to seventh place in the world ranking, according to the BioRegion of Catalonia Report. The United States, with 38,218 trials underway, and China, with 17,321, led the list of countries.

The intentions of the Spanish government to ban social media for under-16s have been very well received in Catalonia. 87% of Catalans - almost 9 out of 10 - endorse this as the minimum age for social media users in all EU countries, according to a survey by the Centre d'Estudis d'Opinió (CEO) and the European Parliament. The poll, published this Monday to mark 40 years since Spain's accession to the community club, indicates that only 10% of respondents are against the measure, while only 3% do not know or do not answer. Setting a minimum age limit for these platforms convinces even the youngest in the sample, as 84% of those interviewed between 18 and 24 years old are in favor.

Ten days ago we wrote here a very striking headline: “Collboni, put the grass”, which was the unanimous cry of the Sant Andreu fans, who had just been promoted. Well, may today's article serve as a “Reply!”: Barcelona City Council will put natural grass on the Narcís Sala and the Nou Sardenya, which is the stadium where Europa plays.

The fans of Sant Andreu and Europa have celebrated as if it were a goal in the last minute of a derby, the sweetest goals to sing about, the City Council's decision to put natural grass on their fields. The mobilization of the Sant Andreu fans, just after a well-deserved promotion, has joined the struggle of the Gràcia residents in recent months. If you add that elections are approaching, the result has been that both clubs left the first meeting with the council with the most desired news. The City Council had it well prepared. It had listened to what people were saying. It had reacted.

Europe is the continent that is warming fastest in the world. This is causing a continued loss of snow and ice and increasingly extreme weather phenomena. In the year 2025 alone, several records derived from the climate crisis were registered across the continent, which caused serious consequences for the societies and ecosystems of all of Europe.

The ideas that end up transforming a society rarely present themselves as ruptures. They don't arrive with a bang or with an explicit will to break. They arrive disguised as normality, with the deceptive calm of common sense. "National priority" is one of those ideas. It seems harmless – taking care of "our own people" first – but it contains a profound mutation: turning rights into a matter of order, of blood, not of equality.

After demanding the tightening of criteria for the extraordinary regularization of migrants in Spain, Junts goes a step further against the measure approved by the government of Pedro Sánchez and from which half a million people will benefit. Carles Puigdemont's party has announced that it will take the regularization to Europe because it "ignores the requirement of knowing Catalan". The party has commissioned its legal department to prepare "the presentation of a complaint before the European institutions for the violation of various directives and the marginalization of a co-official language as an integration criterion", as detailed this Friday in a statement.