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The investment expert Anja Mikus heads the German sovereign wealth fund Kenfo and has to turn 25 billion euros into 130 billion. Here she explains what to look out for when investing for the long term and why a stock pension makes sense.
A 42-year-old Finnish mountaineer has died after falling about 500 meters when she was descending from Balaitús Peak, in the municipality of Sallent de Gállego (Huesca), in an accident in which her companion, a 53-year-old man also of Finnish origin, was unharmed.Continue reading
For Catalan industry and business, defense has ceased to be a taboo and has become a juicy opportunity. Geopolitical movements, with conflicts burning around the world and with the United States willing to support NATO and European partners less, have put on the table the need for the European Union to spend more on defense and achieve strategic autonomy, something that opens up a range of business opportunities in the military industry. The European Union wants to contribute 800,000 million in the next five years, and the Government plans to allocate 2% of GDP, about 10,000 million, to this sector.…
In the ceremony hall of the Quinta de Salmanha (Figueira da Foz), in Portugal, no “long live the bride and groom!” could be heard this Saturday. Repeated cries of “reconquest” and “remigration” could be heard. There was no cake, there were no future spouses. What were 480 far-right extremists from all over Europe celebrating, calling themselves patriots, with some hanging crosses and nationalist emblems pinned to the buttonholes of their wedding-day suits? Continue reading
For the first time since April 2024, the site of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was hit by a drone. Russia blames Ukraine for the attack. The Atomic Energy Authority IAEA insists on access to the hall that was hit.
The majority educational unions, Ustec and Aspepc (which account for 50% representation) have decided to call off the strikes planned from Monday to Thursday, which were focused each day in a different province. However, they maintain the call for Friday, which affects all of Catalonia, pending the result of the consultation that will be carried out to find out whether or not the teachers endorse the pre-agreement reached on Friday with the Department of Education. However, CGT and the Intersindical (they add up to 12% representation), which withdrew from the pre-agreement with Education on Friday, do maintain the strikes. The…
Sewers and plumbers. Two terms perhaps not so foreign to politics, but that until a few years ago were unknown to the majority of citizens. Its function requires it. Its protagonists move in the shadows, scratching for scraps of information that may be useful for the partisan interests they defend. They work in a gray area, but sometimes they cross the red line and set off alarm bells in Justice, as happened with the PP’s alleged maneuvers to boycott judicial investigations into Gürtel. and the so-called Bárcenas paperswhich were exposed with Operation Kitchen, which is being tried these days. Now,…
The birth rate continues to fall in Barcelona. The reading of the registry as of January 1 of this year shows that in 2025 it was the second lowest since 1900: 11,012 children were born, 1.3% compared to the previous year. The first was 1939, the last of the Civil War (about 9,000), when the city’s population was around one million people. The decline has been sustained since the late 70s of last year, with a slight rebound in the first decade of this century. On the other hand, deaths in 2025 were 14,557, 1% less. The drop in the…
If you want to enjoy the sun and beach in summer, you don’t necessarily have to take time off. At least not if a work assignment has been agreed with the employer. “Workation” – i.e. the fusion of work (“work”) and vacation (“vacation”) has gained in popularity since the increasing emergence of mobile work during Corona times. What may sound tempting to many who do not necessarily have to do their job on site in the company, however, involves a number of legal pitfalls. These arise, among other things, from the fact that the framework conditions for workation are not…
No seating arrangement in the Bundestag, coalition agreements already in the election campaign: Robert Habeck is thinking out loud about a different style of politics. In the SPIEGEL top-level conversation with Markus Feldenkirchen, the former economics minister appears thoughtful – and biting.