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.

Stefan Zweig's beautiful book The world of yesterday. Memoirs of a European Remember and evoke, in 1941, when Nazism was on the verge of winning the war it had provoked, how much better the world was before the Great War, fascism, communism and Nazism, when there was faith in progress and humanity. Are we beginning to think like Stefan Zweig? Have we been so disoriented in recent weeks that we feel the vertigo that everything we had believed in will be frowned upon or even banned and persecuted?