Catalunya will be one of the few autonomous communities to approve budgets this year. Oriol Junqueras has just given the green light to the Generalitat’s accounts. The Comuns as well. Salvador Illa will thus be able to reach the end of the legislature in 2028, which will strengthen a period of stability in Catalunya at a very turbulent time in Spanish politics.

In the long and intense third session of the trial against David Sánchez, a dozen witnesses addressed the three vertices of the case. The first refers to the allegedly nepotistic hiring of the brother of President Pedro Sánchez as coordinator of the conservatories of the Diputación de Badajoz in 2017. The second focuses on the alleged irregularities surrounding a modification of David Sánchez’s position when in 2022 he became director of the Office of Performing Arts. The third addresses the alleged favoritism of Luis Carrero, a friend of David Sánchez, as coordinator of centers and cross-border activities also by the Diputación de Badajoz in 2024.

“It all started in Barcelona!”, Pedro Sánchez has assured will be remembered in the future. While a far-right international has been operating freely around the world for years, accelerated after Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, this Saturday a progressive international, convened by the head of the Spanish Executive and the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has started in the capital of Catalonia, as an alternative to the global reactionary wave and the new geopolitical and ideological order encouraged by the President of the United States.

The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, participates this Sunday in a public event in Madrid on the occasion of the Congress of Socialist Youth, in a week in which the developments in the Leire Díez case and the investigation of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero have led Junts to join the PNV’s request to bring forward the elections.