La silla económica más importante de Europa está vacante. La presidenta del Banco Central Europeo, Christine Lagarde, dejará su cargo el 7 de febrero, casi nueve meses antes de que venza su mandato, el 31 de octubre de 2027. El movimiento, anunciado por el banco este jueves, ya estaba en los corrillos políticos y financieros de Europa desde hace meses y obliga a los miembros de la eurozona a pactar en pocas semanas la renovación casi al completo de la cúpula de la institución económica más poderosa del continente. El 3 de enero abandona su puesto la alemana Isabel Schnabel, consejera del banco dedicada a mercados financieros, y el 1 de junio lo hará Philip Lane, irlandés que ejerce como economista jefe.

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The fact that Spain is swimming against the tide on European immigration issues became more evident than ever on Friday, when several EU leaders led by the prime ministers of Denmark and Italy — Mette Frederiksen and Giorgia Meloni — strongly criticized the Spanish government’s decision earlier this year to grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.

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On the night of March 20, 2024, unusually humid and mild in London, three people in their twenties pulled up at an industrial estate in the east of the city in a cherry-red Kia Picanto. They went inside, set fire to a warehouse, and filmed the blaze on a cellphone. The video of the flames consuming the premises ended up in the hands of another 20-year-old, Dylan Earl, who was reached via the Telegram messaging app by the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner, linked to the Kremlin, which had in turn recruited others to do the dirty work. One of the burned units contained humanitarian aid and Starlink satellite equipment destined for Ukraine. According to the British investigation, the three young men who lit the fuse did not know they were actually working for Russia.

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