“If we take a look at our most recent past and if we broaden our view to international developments, we will become aware that Catalonia has left behind the time of paralysis and indecision. Catalonia has left behind the time of division and confrontation. Catalonia is living today the time of solutions to transform the country.” In the traditional institutional message from the President of the Generalitat for Sant Jordi, Salvador Illa has this year painted an optimistic picture of Catalonia, based on an analysis of the global situation, where armed conflicts carry great weight, but also based on the internal diagnosis. Illa believes that “Catalonia is on the move and determined.”

The expected confession of businessman Julio Martínez Martínez fell short. According to legal sources, it could be an advance, an announcement of his predisposition to collaborate, but it was not a complete statement that would allow finding out who former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero influenced, among other things, to achieve the rescue of the airline Plus Ultra, which was granted 53 million euros after the pandemic to prevent its eventual financial collapse.

The Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, announced today in the Parliament, during the voting on amendments to the Catalan Public Employment Bill, the creation “for the first time” in Catalonia of 540 positions for national civil servants authorized to fill vacancies for secretaries and auditors in Catalonia. Dalmau assured that the process to implement these positions will be approved next week within the Catalan government.