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The Court of Instruction number 6 of Majadahonda files the complaint of Vito Quiles against Begoña Gómez for false accusation, avoiding his statement scheduled for Friday, while Quiles is being investigated for coercion against the wife of the Prime Minister following an episode of harassment in a restaurant. #BegoñaGómez #VitoQuiles #Justicia (translated)

Bender El Que Ofende wrote that the sending of Es-Alert alerts and the confinement of towns in the Comunitat Valenciana reminded him of an occasion when, he claimed, no action was taken because the person in charge was drunk in a restaurant. He added that this person was still receiving a very high salary. #ComunitatValenciana #EsAlert #Corrupción (translated)

RADIO ARC 101:“NEWSSTANDS, ‘ENDANGERED SPECIES’ LIKE CAFÉS: MONEY LOST AND HOPES FROM STANFORD” by NANDO SILVESTRI SOURCE: https://radioarc.it/edicole-razze-in-estinzione-come-i-bar-soldi-persi-e-speranze-da-stanford/ Newsstands are another repository of humanity and knowledge, in many respects similar to cafés, at least as far as the unfortunate fate that has befallen many of them is concerned. The smell of printed paper, coloured card, variegated covers, surprise packets and cellophane was an olfactory molasses that once intoxicated young and old alike and represented, at the same time, a sought-after destination for daily walks and pauses. Stopping by the newsstand meant drawing upon knowledge, entertainment, culture, imagination and creativity. All prerogatives lost on account of the shapeless and amorphous surrogates disseminated by the web. This is the principal reason for the cumulative and recurring closure of a great many Italian newsstands: in economics, one speaks of a sector in demand collapse. But it is not merely a newsstand that closes; a piece of the local and national economy closes with it. From 35,000 newsstands in 2005 to about 20,000 in 2024: -43%. With them goes direct turnover of over €400 million per year, but the real hole is the indirect economy that is never calculated. Each average newsstand in a small town generated distribution worth €15,000 per year in margins for local distributors, couriers, and printers. Moreover, the customer who bought the newspaper would have a coffee, buy a bus ticket, place a bet. Download the Medium App One must consider that without a newsstand, the village cinema loses its only physical promotional outlet, not to mention the losses in terms of advertising. When it closes, it is not only the newsagent who loses. The café loses, the driver loses, the printer loses. In Irpinia, over the last five years, Avellino has lost six newsstands, Ariano Irpino three, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi two. The total loss in Irpinia amounts to about 22% of outlets. All this means that many of the closures mentioned above have deprived Irpinian cafés of several dozen customers, harming workers, distributors and suppliers. These are jobs that do not make the news, but they exist. Another hard blow inflicted upon the local and national economy in the name of a false progress that almost always favours the business of fixers and the usual suspects. However, what is happening in Puglia, a few kilometres from Irpinia, opens up scenarios of renewal based precisely upon the reconversion of disused newsstands. These are prospects so unique and innovative as to have aroused interest worldwide, especially at Stanford University. This is news of enormous significance that few news programmes have disseminated, in the name of a perennial pre-emption by technologies contemptuous of common sense, tradition and art. In San Severo, 40 km from Upper Irpinia, a newsstand abandoned for six years in Via Matteo Tondi became, on 27 March 2026, the Teatro-Edicola Foyer’97: six chairs, four square metres, an idea by Francesco Gavino. The well-received 10- to 15-minute shows have piqued the curiosity of Stanford University. Its academic journal, the Stanford Social Innovation Review [SSIR], has chosen the Teatro Edicola in San Severo as an international case study with the reportage “The Six-Seat Revolution”. Why is Stanford watching us? Because it has realised that those four square metres can once again generate indirect economic activity. Indeed, 60 spectators in an afternoon can become 60 coffees at the neighbouring café. With a symbolic ticket price of €5, we are talking about a cultural micro-economy. Not to mention the indirect income from tourists and journalists who arrive and frequent B&Bs and restaurants. It is the model Irpinia needs: not to leave the void, but to reconvert it virtuously. Every closed newsstand can become an information point, a micro-cinema, a service hub. Otherwise we shall continue to count only the lowered shutters, without counting the money that no longer circulates.

Emanuel Boeminghaus warned that German gastronomy is under pressure. In his current YouTube interview, he wrote that critical comments from guests have accumulated. One viewer reported spending 15 euros for a pizza, 4.50 euros for a wheat beer, and 1.50 euros in tips – a total of 21 euros. Another criticized a bottle of wine for 30 euros that costs only 10 euros online. Unattentive service and long waiting times were also mentioned as complaints. According to Boeminghaus, the commentators did not see the responsibility lying solely with politics. They also criticized a lack of hospitality, poor value for money, and missing quality. A woman from Berlin reported significantly better experiences in Polish restaurants. At the same time, high personnel, energy, and operating costs burden many businesses, he wrote. Boeminghaus described a conflict between the need for higher revenues in gastronomy businesses and guests who could or wanted to afford restaurant visits increasingly less often. He warned that if long-time restaurant guests preferred to stay at home, more than just the next revenue was at stake for traditional German gastronomy. https://t.co/YapCnYou6I #Gastronomie #Deutschland #Restaurants (translated)

Jérémy Benhaïm wrote that Aline had lost everything during the #17October demonstration: according to him, her restaurant, located in the heart of Paris, had been set on fire by rioters, and she had been beaten and disfigured. He said he was devastated by her distress and her testimony, and expressed his support for Aline as well as for the shopkeepers he believed had been unfairly targeted. He added that the "real people of France" were with them. #Soutien #Solidarité #France (translated)

Wall Street Wolverine stated that Aline, the owner of a restaurant in La Barrique, had been beaten and disfigured after the riots. He also noted that the establishment had been completely burned down and that she had lost everything. https://t.co/veZdEN4vjj #Justicia #Solidaridad #Restaurantes (translated)

Little Think Tank reported the testimony of Aline, manager of the restaurant La Barrique in Paris. She claimed to have been violently attacked by rioters and said that her establishment had been vandalized and then set on fire. https://t.co/YuoHBnevrf #France #Paris #Violence (translated)

Impact reported, relaying information from AnthoDepe, that the McDonald's on Boulevard Saint-Denis had been vandalized and targeted by an attempted arson, while residential housing was located just above. It added that the Master Poulet restaurant, located right next door, had been spared. https://t.co/N0ykr4VioG #McDonalds #Paris #Sécurité (translated)

FRENCHRAPUS stated that the Burgouzz restaurant of YouTuber Valouzz had been vandalized and ransacked in Rennes that day. He stated that several inscriptions had been left on site, including "Burgouzz antifa," an apology note, and a message calling for Macron to hide. He also mentioned the expression "Tchiki brrrr." https://t.co/e8lH7yXgz6 #Rennes #Vandalisme #YouTuber (translated)

Owen wrote that it was time to go to dinner in Paris and that he and his company were still looking for a restaurant. He reported that the work would continue all night and also the next day. His colleagues from PowNed would continue that night and the following day during the day and in the afternoon. #avondeten #Parijs #gezelligheid (translated)