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The price of food has skyrocketed due to the lack of water. The shortage is explained by the drought, but also by the administration’s lack of foresight. Anticipating the future is basic to living better and this is what the EU is doing by promoting the production of chips, the tool of the industry today and tomorrow.

The price of oil and olives, of seasonal fruit and citrus fruits will continue to skyrocket as long as production does not recover and it will not do so until it rains. The Government assumes that “it is a time of great uncertainty.” You can’t control the time. Families cut consumption.

The farmers have launched an SOS. “This is a drama”, say those from Lleida, forced to irrigate with half the water. The same happens in Andalusia.

The field has to do with less irrigation water and the inhabitants of the metropolitan area of ​​Barcelona and Girona will also have to turn off the tap if it does not rain. In September, most of the inhabitants of Catalonia will be in an emergency due, also, to poor water management.

The EU will invest 43,000 million euros in the production of chips so as not to depend on Asian manufacturers. The objective is to acquire strategic autonomy in this sector, controlling the entire semiconductor value chain, from design to production.

Prime Minister Meloni defends that humanitarian aid to immigrants arriving on Italian shores be cut off. At the same time, she works to stop the migratory flow in the African countries of origin.

King Juan Carlos was in London yesterday with Carlos III and saw the Real Madrid game against Chelsea. Today he will return to Sanxenxo to see his friends, a discreet visit that, however, Zarzuela did not like.

The two big parties agree on the reform of the “only yes is yes” law. Both have found consensus on a matter of deep social significance. PSOE members regret it.

Linn Ullmann, writer. “My mother being so beautiful, at 16 I explored desire but also beauty.” She read it here.

The Greeks believed that Tartessos was the first civilization in the West. It flourished at the end of the Bronze Age in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Five reliefs from the 5th century BC with five faces have now been found, the first to be discovered. Now it will be possible to put a face to the Tartessians.

Carlos Alcaraz kicked off his participation in the Conde de Godó trophy yesterday with a resounding victory over Borges (6-3, 6-1). His debut coincided with the goodbye of Feliciano López, who has participated in 22 editions, a record.

Waiter ‘Influencer’. Jesús Soriano denounces on the networks the exploitation suffered by many waiters like him. The restaurateurs complain about the lack of waiters and they are a covert and widespread exploitation.

Richard Taylor, creator of images for the cinema. “There is no ship that goes further than a good book.” Read it here.