The business sectors that pay their workers less than 27,500 euros per year, such as tourism, the meat industries, or home delivery services, “have impoverished” the whole Catalan society. This provocative idea is one of those that arise from the Fènix Report prepared by a group of seven Catalan economists who try to elucidate the reasons and consequences of low productivity.

“I have a whole volume of signed appointment sheets. Every two months, we sign one.” For the past ten years, Fernando Casamayor, a procedural clerk in the social courts of Madrid and founder of the DJusticia union, has chained dozens of temporary contracts for the same job position, reinforcement staff. He has been working in Justice for 21 years, always as a temporary worker but has not managed to stabilize his position, despite having met the requirements and passed the necessary tests for the job pool. Although the law requires that reinforcement positions become permanent after three years and be opened for transfer contests or competitive exams, “they remain in fraud,” he explains.

The silver chairs of the Cambra de Barcelona continue to generate controversy, even after the plenary of the entity approved this controversial measure on Thursday. The parliamentary groups of the Comuns and the CUP jointly submitted a request yesterday for an opinion from the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries on various articles of the future Cambres law, a text that has been stalled for more than a decade without reaching the Parlament. The regulation, a proposal prepared by the chambers themselves, was supposed to be voted on in the hemicycle next Wednesday, but this request will clearly delay the process again until September.

The Sectoral Conference on Housing and Urban Agenda held this morning in Madrid has approved the State Housing Plan 2026-2030 (PEV), with a total investment of 7 billion euros. Of this amount, 60% (4.2 billion) will be contributed by the ministry and the remaining 40% (2.8 billion) by the autonomous communities. The Government of Spain and the autonomous communities and cities have reached an agreement after almost a year of work in this morning’s meeting, despite some disagreements from the autonomous communities.

The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday the royal decree regulating the new State Housing Plan 2026-2030, a plan that mobilizes 7.000 million euros, triple the previous one, to promote a public housing stock that is permanently protected and cannot be privatized.