Fira de Barcelona is looking towards a near future where it will be able to compete at the highest level of European and international exhibition centers. The organization is beginning to consider the new possibilities that will open up when it acquires the 60,000 square meters of the new Hall 0 at its Gran Via facilities in Hospitalet de Llobregat, and with the expansion in Montjuïc, coinciding with the centenary of the 1929 Barcelona International Equestrian Exposition. The institution is also working on attracting trade shows related to the world of medicine and biomedicine, following the success of the congresses it has hosted in recent years at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB).

Lieutenant General Manuel Busquier, Inspector General of the Army, has had a "fantastic" experience in Catalonia over the past four years. Now he is leaving for a posting yet to be determined, and in the final stretch of his Catalan tenure, he was given a send-off with full honors this Tuesday by the Equestrian Circle. The exclusive club in the Catalan capital opened its doors to bid him farewell at a luncheon discussion where its president, Enric Lacalle, asked him about the challenges facing the armed forces in a changing geopolitical context and in the age of AI. He also inquired about his experience in Catalonia. Busquier, who arrived in Catalonia in 2022, explained that he found institutions and civil society that welcomed him with open arms and provided him with every possible assistance. "I'm leaving because there's no other option, due to the military career law, but I would have stayed another four years in a heartbeat," he stated. The lieutenant general thus refuted the narrative that is still often repeated by forces such as Vox, who claim that the Generalitat has sought to expel the army from the country or exclude it.