We've gathered the best moments from Focus: the Solutions Forum of the ARA newspaper, which held its first edition with a clear objective: to combat fatalism through dialogue and thought.

Against fatalism, dialogue and thought. This is the guiding principle ofWe focus on: The solutions forum, debate sessions organized by the ARA that will feature speakers such as the former editorial director of Le MondeSylvie Kauffmann; CIDOB researcher Blanca Garcés; architect Maria Sisternas; and cardiologist Valentí Fuster. The sessions will be moderated and led by renowned contributors from ARA, such as Mònica Planas and Albert Om, and will also include other journalists like Laura Rosel and Roger Escapa. The first edition ofWe focus It will take place at the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) on January 23 and 24.

Should the names and photographs of pedophiles be published? Would you report your child if you discovered a video of them bullying another student? Would you tell your child they don't inherit your genes? These and other questions will be answered on the program. And you, what would you do? Presented by Patrick Urbano, the show premieres tonight at 11:05 PM on La 2 Cat, airing weekly. The aim of this new format is to connect philosophical thought with current events.

At a time when democratic memory occupies a central place on the public agenda, the ARA (Ateneo de la Memoria, or Association of the Catalan People) brought together three expert voices this Wednesday to analyze how Catalonia and Spain are confronting the discrimination that has permeated their history and still persists. In the Oriol Bohigas Room of the Ateneo Barcelonès, in the heart of Barcelona, ​​Lluís Rambla, social worker, professor of social work, and trustee of the LGTBIQ+ Foundation; Laia Gallego, historian and archaeologist; and Antumi Toasijé, historian, writer, and artist, stated that without transparency, plurality, and a clear commitment to incorporating all silenced voices, "there cannot be a complete democratic narrative."

"How can social media connect us, if using a cell phone at the table is rude?" asks a girl, as if it were a hand-to-hand battle between gladiators and she'd just disarmed her opponent, who, eager to buy time to devise a counterattack, responds with a simple but effective: "How?"

The ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that supports the right of the Constitutional Court to veto the processing of motions in favor of the right to self-determination or against the monarchy is undoubtedly a bucket of cold water and a reality check for the independence movement. It is true that the ECHR decision balances the rights of the deputies and the TC, but it also seems that the idea that European justice would end up giving the independence movement the right in all its cases against Spain has turned out not to be true. It is not so easy, therefore, for European judges to overrule a decision by the highest interpreter of the Constitution of a Member State.

What species are invading and what dangers do they face? This was one of the main questions that two experts tried to answer at an event organised this Tuesday by the ARA and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC). And the answer, as always, is found in humans. Because it is theHomo sapiens who decided to build, and expand, and expand again the Suez Canal so that goods from the Indian Ocean could easily reach the Mediterranean, which caused many species from the East to also travel, by sea or stuck under ships, to the West. It has also been humans who have decided to buy, for purely aesthetic reasons, ornamental plants from other continents that have now become their own. And, once again, it is human action that has caused a climate emergency that heats the waters and disrupts ecosystems.

Everything pointed to it being a debate of all against Isabel Díaz Ayuso, or Ayuso against all. But nothing could have been further from the truth. The only appointment between the six candidates for the Madrid elections became last night a fight between blocks - right against left -, but also a struggle between Vox and Ciudadanos to try to have the key to the next government of the PP, as most polls suggest. In short: it became an attempt by PSOE, Más Madrid and Unidas Podemos to try to warn of the risk that the PP forming a government with the extreme right could pose, not only for the Spanish capital - but also for the State.

Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas's immediate removal from the Parliamentary Bureau by his party, JxCat, is a symptom of convulsive times in which, in the face of ideological confusion and democratic weakness, political spaces are tending towards the conservative solution of closing ranks and penalising debate. In fact, it is a tendency typical of partisan politics understood in the worst sense of the expression, a tendency that becomes extreme when the going gets tough, when the political roadmap is unsure, when the separation of powers is shaky and when anti-political populism increasingly rears its head. And when, as a consequence of all this, serious debate of ideas is feared and self-criticism is nipped in the bud.

Socialist candidate Salvador Illa has announced this Friday in a debate on the SER between all the candidates except PP and Vox that if he becomes president of the Generalitat he will reduce his salary by 30%, since he believes that it is excessive. "It is a proposal to be with the people," said the former Socialist minister, despite the fact that the Socialists recently voted against a CUP proposal, along with JxCat and ERC, in the Parliament that sought to reduce all senior officials' salary by 14%. The socialist presidential candidate has proposed equalising the salary of the president of the Generalitat to the president of the Basque Country, that is, to go from the €153,235.50 to €105,825.58 per year.