Brexit causes product shortages and staff shortages in the UK

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Brexit causes product shortages and staff shortages in the UK (ABC)
A shortage of supplies and raw materials, as well as the shortage of products worldwide due, among other reasons, to the impact of the Delta variant of the coronavirus or the policy of hoarding by China, is added in the United Kingdom another factor: Brexit. Just a few days ago the news broke that the British meat sector is asking the Government to allow it to recruit prisoners due to a significant shortage of staff.

Murcia will veto more fertilizers in the strip near the Mar Menor (ABC)
Ministry and community reduce the tension and agree to park disputes, although the differences persist. Ribera and López Miras schedule periodic meetings every six months to assess the status of the salty lagoon.

The Government and Murcia approach positions on the Mar Menor (El País)
The Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, and the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, yesterday buried the ax of the war of competences that had been unleashed between both executives due to the latest crisis in the Mar Menor. The regional executive will ban pesticides near the lagoon and promises to close illegal farms.

Truce between the Government and the Region of Murcia after ten days of ecological disaster (La Razón)
Ribera and López Miras approach positions to try to save this natural space. Every six months a commission in charge of analyzing and monitoring the state of the lagoon will meet.
Truce of Murcia with the Government on the Mar Menor (El Mundo)
The central government yesterday staged a rapprochement with the Murcian Executive after a week and a half of disagreements due to the Mar Menor crisis. The third vice president of the Government, Teresa Ribera, visited the president of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, and both were willing to put their differences behind and work together.

Ribera proposes a green belt around the Mar Menor (El Economista)
The third vice president of the Government and minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, bets on the ecological disaster in the Mar Menor by “focusing on where those loads are that the ecosystem cannot absorb” and rejects the Dumping Plan 0, because “it is not an adequate response to the system”.

The ecological disaster of the Mar Menor, another sequel to the ‘water war’ (Expansión)
The appearance in the last ten days of five tons of dead fish on the shores of some beaches of the Mar Menor, the saline lagoon in the southeast of the Region of Murcia, once again brought to light the confrontation between the central and regional administrations over the protection of the delicate ecological balance in the area.
He leaves the Mar Menor without specific commitments (El Mundo)
The vice president for the Ecological Transition left yesterday from her visit to the Mar Menor opening a channel of dialogue with the Government of Murcia, which was a unanimous cry in this region, but without concrete commitments to save this valuable ecosystem. What’s more, he ruled out the Zero Waste Plan works and limited himself to promising the creation of a “green belt” of protection.
Save the lagoon (El País)
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But the truth is that the Government of Murcia has most of the powers in this matter: those that affect agriculture, the prevention of nitrate pollution, the Mar Menor basin as a vulnerable area and changes in land use. And the reality is that intensive agricultural exploitation has multiplied in the area with a disastrous result for this fragile ecosystem. Far from trying to change the agrarian model, the Murcian Executive repealed the law approved by opposition votes in 2018 that forced farmers to allocate part of the territory to natural vegetation that absorbs fertilizers.
The Mar Menor is under state jurisdiction (La Razón)
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Five of the six official bodies involved in the Mar Menor crisis are state-owned, which has not prevented the Minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel rodriguez, throw the balls out and transfer the responsibilities to the regional Executive, the Popular Party, which will have those that correspond to them, but, of course, it lacks the necessary management instruments to carry out a policy of comprehensive reparation of the problem.
The Mar Menor crisis does not admit any further delay (Expansion)
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The new climate of understanding between the central government and that of the Region of Murcia announced yesterday by the third vice president and Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, together with the regional president, Fernando Lopez MirasIn order to find solutions to the present ecological crisis of the Mar Menor, it must bear fruit in the short term.

The green transition has a price (El País)
The decision to accelerate to 2030 the reduction of carbon emissions by 55% compared to 1990 and achieve climate neutrality (zero emissions) by 2050 represents a radical shift from the current growth model. After years of postponements and delays, the European Commission and the United States have promoted million-dollar investment plans to modify the consumption pattern under the premise that “what is good for the planet is good for citizens and the economy”, in words of the Commission. But nothing is free.

A businessman from Bizkaia imposed on his workers 26-hour days in a row (El País)
They came to work up to 26 hours in a row in days that the businessman baptized as “marathons”, with only one break to eat and five euros an hour. All night locked up and non-stop canning garlic and onions. The businessman who owns Ajos y Cebollas del Txorierri, a food company located in Zamudio (Bizkaia) was arrested last week after the complaint of several employees who described the regime close to slavery to which they were subjected to the National Police.

Arrested for forcing him to work 26 hours in a row (La Razón)
Eight employees were exploited from 7 in the morning until 9 the next day.

Dreaming of the stars in full harvest (El País)
The day that Elena Manjavacas passed her last Physics course at the Complutense University of Madrid, her father, happy and proud of his daughter, told her before hanging up: “Well, now come and harvest so you don’t get bored” . His destiny was written in the sky, but he never stopped touching the earth, that of the Cuenca town of 6,000 inhabitants of Mota del Cuervo, where so many times he lent a hand to his parents in the field.

A hot course (The reason)
‘The opinion’ by César Lumbreras
Several years ago, one of the most important employers in Spain told me that the two main problems he had to face were the cost of energy, especially electricity, and the lack of qualified workers, because teaching vocational training was neither well developed nor well regarded. The first of those problems has not only not been solved, but with the passage of time it has worsened and we are at all-time highs.