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About to enter the final stretch of the electoral campaign, there are numbers that indicate what, beyond 23-J, but shortly after it, will be news: budget adjustments, Vatican changes, the internal situation in Russia and even tolls . Impossible to relax.

The Eurogroup points to adjustments or, to be more exact, opens a gradual stage of budgetary adjustments and today, in fact, a proposal is presented to reform the European fiscal rules. It is expected to be agreed upon in the remaining half year.

Francisco shores up his succession. The Pope will name 21 new cardinals this September, making 72% of all cardinals eligible to vote in the conclave his choice. He will be less Eurocentric, younger and with a Spanish accent.

How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine? Knowing the exact number of casualties is very difficult since it hits at the front and at home. A new estimate based on inheritances and social networks makes it easier and points to between 60,000 and 70,000 in just one year.

Highway tolls return. The main expressways in the country will cease to be free during the next legislature, that is, in 2024, and “by imposition of Brussels”, according to the director of the DGT. This is already foreseen.

From Valencia… to heaven? The PP-Vox alliance recovers for the popular the Valencian Community, “the most coveted piece”, is launched. Meloni, from Italy, what’s more, already joins her to the future government of Spain while Sánchez criticizes Feijóo’s smokescreens about his agreements.

Limiting the use of sweeteners is once again on the WHO target. Furthermore, in the case of aspartame, the organization warns that it could cause liver cancer in high doses. The data is not conclusive, but…

The screenwriter versus ‘his successor’. Hollywood is turned upside down by the protest of actors and screenwriters for the growing role, and substitution, of artificial intelligence in the sector. The media live just as long. It is the new war of the digital revolution.

Luis Bermejo and Adriana Ozores, actors. “Humor helps to clarify the truths.” read it here

Something is moving in culinary Japan. And it is that the menu of the Japanese reflects the changes that are seen in the culinary habits of the country and that are summarized in more bread and less rice, less breakfast of a bowl of rice with fish and more toast with eggs.

Movie reviews cannot be missing on a new Friday. Throughout the week the critics of the house recommended the new Mission Impossible. Now other very European four-star premieres are added to this.

Long live the dull life and boredom! Or that is at least what is put on the table when the debate about whether boredom is aspirational or a form of slow suicide “is hotter than ever.” Fiction and beigefluencers push it.

Isabel Güell, medical specialist in neurology. “Ask your cardiologist for an ultrasound of your carotids, now!” read it here

VICTOR-M. AMELA