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If we want to glimpse what future is expected, what better way to look than to look at the youth and, in Spain, the latest data paints it badly: low birth rates, high school dropouts... The worst? It is not new. For the rest, watch out for covid.
Covid once again issues a warning: although most cases are mild, it is noted that those diagnosed have doubled due to the drop in immunity. The vaccination campaign is brought forward to this month.
Spain also leads the EU in school dropouts despite giving more teaching hours and 17% of young people between 18 and 34 years old neither study nor work, according to OECD data. A quarter of Spaniards aged 25 to 34 do not even have ESO.
The cost of living does not help either since yesterday it was confirmed that inflation rose to 2.6% due to fuel, although another figure should be highlighted here: food continues to skyrocket. Example: olive oil is 52% more expensive than a year ago.
There is football. Spanish football is finally breathing after weeks of scandals... Last night the men's team beat Cyprus and takes another step towards the Euro. In the Women's League, unions and employers are close to agreeing on a minimum wage and calling off the strike.
“Coup plotter.” Heading towards the investiture, in the middle of the negotiations for the agreement, talking day in and day out about amnesty, the socialists charge against the overloaded climate of rebellion that they attribute to the right. Aznar takes center stage.
North Africa does not win for dramas. In Morocco the situation speaks of villages that the earthquake erased. Says it all. In Libya, torrential rains and the bursting of two dams left 10,000 missing. In both cases, disaster management raises doubts.
The women's struggle in Iran sees steps forward in the symbolic sphere, no less important: the Iranian has become accustomed to many women not wearing veils and, since wearing Bermuda shorts in their case also adds up, these are spreading.
Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine. “Trump will never support Putin.” Read it here.
Social networks in Spain today bring a great paradox to the table: there is no doubt that large families triumph in them, but, in reality, nothing has changed: the birth rate, no matter how you look at it, remains at a minimum.
Artificial intelligence seems to be the buzzword. It is believed to be the technology of the future if not of the present, and its effects are feared, although when interviewed in La Vanguardia one of its greatest experts read: “I am more concerned about human stupidity than AI.”
100 years since another coup d'état in Spain. There are episodes of the Spanish 20th century that have been overshadowed, and perhaps the most notable is the coup and subsequent dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. His legacy, an avalanche of works insist, survives in part.
Lisa Kaltenegger, astrophysicist, exoplanet observer and successor to Carl Sagan. “We still do not deserve to contact extrasolar intelligences.” Read it here.
VICTOR-M. AMELA
