After the surprise announcement on March 31 that Wayne Griffiths, the former CEO and face of Seat and Cupra, was leaving, the company finally officially has a new CEO for both brands. Likewise, the Infrastructure Advisory Council of Catalonia has welcomed a new president, and the Catalan footwear company Munich has hired a new general manager.

Munich City Council has decided to close Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, which had been held since September 20, due to a "verified bomb alert." Several explosions have occurred in the north of the city, causing a fire with one fatality, and some threats have also been received: Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter has spoken of "a letter that must be taken very seriously."

US Vice President JD Vance has taken Europe by the lapels and pinned it against a wall this Friday. In a speech in Munich, he said: "If you go into elections afraid of your own voters, America can do nothing for you." Fear of your own voters means fear of speaking clearly about immigration, inclusion policies, feminism, the environment. The message is a political and intellectual challenge to the complacent two-party system that has governed the EU and that now claims, with a helplessness that is more hypocritical than sincere, that the hatred that grows on its right provides electoral benefits.