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CNA
6 days ago
- Climate
- CNA
Heatwaves in Spain caused 1,180 deaths in past two months, ministry says
MADRID: High temperatures caused 1,180 deaths in Spain in the past two months, a sharp increase from the same period last year, the Environment Ministry said on Monday (Jul 14). The vast majority of people who died were over 65 and more than half were women, the data it cited showed. The most affected regions were Galicia, La Rioja, Asturias and Cantabria - all located in the northern half of the country, where traditionally cooler summer temperatures have seen a significant rise in recent years. Like other countries in Western Europe, Spain has been hit by extreme heat in recent weeks, with temperatures often topping 40°C. The 1,180 people who died of heat-related causes between May 16 and Jul 13 compared with 70 in the same period in 2024, the ministry said in a statement citing data from the Carlos III Health Institute. The number of deaths increased significantly in the first week in July. The data shows an event "of exceptional intensity, characterised by an unprecedented increase in average temperatures and a significant increase in mortality attributable to heatwaves", the ministry said. In the period the data covers, there were 76 red alerts for extreme heat, compared with none a year earlier. Last summer, 2,191 deaths were attributed to heat-related causes in Spain, according to data from the Carlos III Health Institute. The data from Spain follows a rapid scientific analysis published on Jul 9 that said around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during a severe heatwave in the 10 days to Jul 2. It was not immediately clear whether the study conducted by scientists at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was using the same methodology as the Spanish data.
Russia Today
11-07-2025
- Business
- Russia Today
Europe is losing
Western Europe is 'losing' the economic competition with its main rivals, China and the US, and is struggling with a shortage of globally competitive companies, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has 2022, when the EU imposed sweeping sanctions on Russian energy over the Ukraine conflict, growth across the bloc has stagnated. Germany, once its economic powerhouse, is now experiencing its third year of economic has argued that EU restrictions are self-defeating, causing surging energy prices and weakening the bloc's CEO of one of the world's largest banks, cautioned EU leaders at an event in Dublin hosted by the Irish Foreign Ministry on Thursday that Europe has lost its competitive edge compared to the US and is facing a growing crisis in economic competitiveness.'You're losing,' he said. 'Europe has gone from 90% [of] US GDP to 65% over 10 or 15 years.''We've got this huge strong market and our companies are big and successful, have huge kinds of scale that are global. You have that, but less and less.' The JP Morgan boss has repeatedly expressed concerns about the state of Europe's economy. Earlier this year, Dimon told Financial Times that Europe needed to 'do more' to remain competitive, noting that GDP per person had dropped from around 70% of America's to 50%, which he deemed 'not sustainable.'Dimon's warning comes as European NATO members say they need to ramp up their military budgets to deter an alleged threat from Russia. NATO countries have recently pledged to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP over the next decade, more than double the longstanding target of 2%.Moscow denies posing any danger to these nations, accusing Western officials of exploiting fear to rationalize budget increases and cover a decline in living standards.
