There was a time when banks had powerful industrial portfolios. An example was Banesto, when Mario Conde was its chairman, which was swallowed up by Santander; or BBVA itself, which had been one of the key shareholders of Telefónica and Gamesa (now part of the Siemens group). When it was a savings bank, La Caixa was—and still is in some cases—the key partner in companies such as Gas Natural (now Naturgy), Agbar, Abertis, and Repsol, and it maintained this vocation, which was frowned upon by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Spain.

Work to seal and remove the Castor, the underwater natural gas reservoir launched in 2012 by the company Escal UGS off the coast of Vinaròs, will begin in the next three months, according to sources at Enagás, the company in charge of carrying out the work, explained to the newspaper ARA. The first step to unblock this operation, which has been delayed for years, will be the arrival of the jack-up, which is the jack-up platform that will be installed next to the Castor and from where the work to seal the wells will be carried out. This task will take eight months, according to estimates and if nothing goes wrong, and will cost 76 million euros.

It was at the wedding of a rather distinguished family where Florentino Pérez and PP ministers were sitting at one of the tables. At some point during the celebration, the son of a minister ended up talking to Florentino, who, without being asked, gave the young man his phone number: "Call me whenever you want to go to the Bernabéu".