The week begins in Spain with the publication of industrial prices for May and the main economic-financial indicators of companies for the first quarter. Outside our borders, but within the eurozone, the ECB Forum on central banking is held in Sintra (Portugal), while in Germany June Ifo comes to light. In the US, the main reference on Monday will be the Dallas Fed manufacturing index for June.
We have to wait for the official legislation to be published but the end of the mandatory use of masks in Spain is in sight this week, although they will still be “recommended”. The only locations where masks were still required were health-related sites such as hospitals and pharmacies.
Thursday means no more cold calls or spam callers in Spain, as new legislation comes into force which makes the practice illegal. From now on, you have to give your express permission to receive marketing or sales calls. You should of course exercise caution in reading the terms and conditions of anything you sign up for from now on, as it may well include a clause requesting this.
The Covid Enquiry will be dominating headlines in the UK this week, firstly with the Chief Executive of UKHSA, Dame Jenny Harries, explaining her role during the pandemic on Monday, but the star of this week’s show is likely to be Matt Hancock, back in front of the cameras, but not eating intimate animal parts or snogging his mistress, but instead clarifying his assertion that there was a ‘lack of concrete preparedness plans’ in place when he entered office in 2018, because one thing we have learnt is everything is always somebody else’s fault.
American court drama plays out in real life on Wednesday when Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey appears, in person, facing numerous sexual assault charges. So far, he has denied, and subsequently vowed to clear his name, on 12 counts of sexual assault, indecent assault, and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent against, with numerous victims between 2001 and 2013.
In politics in the UK, MPs might be more nervous of their future than some of them are now as the UK boundary commissions will send final recommendations to Parliament on new constituency maps before the next elections.
Back to Europe and continental leaders will gather in Brussels later this week for yet another summit dominated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but other topics on the agenda include the economy, migration, China, and July’s summit with Latin American and Caribbean leaders.
Finally, as Pride Month comes to a close, the celebration of the LGBTQ+ communities continues with Pride events in both London and Madrid on Saturday, and locally, Torrevieja will be celebrating the same next weekend.
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