Salvador Alemany (Barcelona, 1944) concludes a ten-year period as president of the Board of Trustees of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The relay will be taken up by Helena Guardans, once she is ratified by the board on Friday. It will be the same day as the inauguration of the 2026-2027 season with the opera Aida, and with the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko as the star.

Five years after the end of tolls on the AP-7 and AP-2 —the main motorways in Catalonia—, some 250 economists and mobility experts spent Wednesday morning reflecting on the management of the country's main roads. "As economists, we know that apparently free decisions also generate costs and that, if they are not assigned explicitly and transparently, they fall on taxpayers or are passed on to the future," warned the dean of the Association of Economists of Catalonia (CEC), Carlos Puig de Travy.