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The food industry is heavily lobbying against a law that aims to protect children from unhealthy food, with the sector creating the impression that the strict regulations threaten traditional children's figures like the Easter Bunny. #kindermarketing #gezondvoedsel #lobby (translated)

BTS Daily Chile reported that the National Institute of Sports (IND) inspected the field of the National Stadium after BTS's three concerts and found no structural sinkholes or playability issues. According to the account, the evaluation found minor and specific unevenness, yellowish areas, and less grass coverage in some sections. It also attributed the localized water accumulation and part of the lower grass density to the rains that affected Santiago the previous week. The account pointed out that DG Medios, the producer responsible for the concerts, was contractually obligated to handle the recovery, under the supervision of the IND. The work would include cleaning, soil aeration, verticutting, leveling, seeding, and fertilization, with the goal of preparing the field for upcoming activities, including the match between Universidad de Chile and Everton on October 26. #ARIASBTS #BTSENCHILE #BTSENCHILE #EstadioNacional #Conciertos (translated)

Ibero-American mayors gather in Madrid to request more funding to address the challenges of housing, mobility, and climate change, highlighting the need for collaboration between sectors and greater decentralization of resources. #EncuentroIberoamericano #Vivienda #CambioClimático (translated)

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar presented the budget for 2027, which includes significant tax cuts, doubling of family allowances, increases in minimum pensions, and salary increases in the public sector, as well as an additional allocation of 510 billion HUF for health care. #Buget2027 #ReduceriFiscale #AlocațiiFamiliale (translated)

The protests in France, originated among young people due to poor educational conditions and the high cost of living, have evolved into a wave of outrage that brings together various social sectors in rejection of the management of the government of Emmanuel Macron. #ProtestasFrancia #CrisisSocial #CosteDeVida (translated)

Jaime Rodríguez, director of the Spanish Confederation of Bus Transport, highlights in an interview that the sector aims to achieve the goal of zero fatalities, reaching an accident rate of 0.1% thanks to investments in driver training and fleet modernization. #SeguridadVial #TransporteSostenible #InnovaciónEnTransportes (translated)

Telefónica, Orange, Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite communication spectrum in Europe, with the goal of competing with Starlink and strengthening European autonomy in this sector. #Telecomunicaciones #ConectividadSatélite #Europa (translated)

Foxconn, the manufacturer of the iPhone, has expanded its interest in electric cars through an agreement to acquire 50% of Mitsubishi Electric Mobility, with the aim of developing technologies and platforms for electric vehicles and achieving significant revenue in this sector. #CochesEléctricos #Foxconn #Mitsubishi (translated)

Moeve and Faconauto have signed an agreement to promote energy efficiency and electric mobility among dealerships, with the aim of strengthening the competitiveness of the automotive sector and facilitating the energy transition. #TransiciónEnergética #MovilidadEléctrica #EficienciaEnergética (translated)

The Público reported that members of the Government and deputies from PSD, Chega, IL, and CDS-PP owned 1,039 properties. According to the newspaper, many were landlords and others invested in the real estate sector, with stakes in dozens of companies. https://t.co/EF2yQ2By1q https://t.co/VVB6SjMyFa #imobiliário #governo #Política (translated)

Jesús Maraña pointed out that, according to information from Marcos García Quesada, three judges from the Supreme Court who had annulled the limits on private universities were teaching at institutions in the sector. https://t.co/7yCO7rkwdK #Supremo #UniversidadesPrivadas #Educación (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.