Política

The renewal of the financing model has returned to the forefront following the approval of the Generalitat’s budgets. The PSC and Esquerra Republicana place this issue as the next milestone and pressure Junts to support the legal reforms required by the model agreed upon by socialists and republicans earlier this year under the premise that it will provide more than 4 billion euros additional to the coffers of the Catalan administration. The post-convergence members, however, see it as insufficient and have opposed it from the start. But for now, they try to deflect and hide their cards because despite that opposition, they could facilitate its processing. “It is a rather lamentable act of cynicism that we are asked to support the financing model,” said Josep Rius, spokesperson and vice president of JxCat, on Monday regarding that pressure. “Their goal is not for us to give support, but to hold us responsible for its failure,” he added.

The Council of Ministers has admitted that the CNI spied on the phone of former CUP deputy David Fernández for almost half a year, which the secret services had not acknowledged until now. They have also admitted that the phone of former parliamentarian of the formation Carles Riera was intercepted for another two years, with authorization from the Supreme Court.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, did not hold back this morning when attacking the foreign policy line of the Popular Party (PP) and stating that they are “absolutely incapable of governing.” Commenting on the crisis triggered by the xenophobic opinion about the French team from former president Mariano Rajoy, Albares has asked the PP to stop “boycotting” Spanish foreign policy and the relationships it has with neighboring countries such as France, Morocco, or Algeria.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will travel today to Almería to see firsthand the situation of the worst fire Spain has experienced in decades. He will surely do so in the company of the President of Andalusia, Juanma Moreno. Both have behaved since Friday,…

The Spain-France universe is currently marked by the PP’s halt in the Senate to the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation (of Barcelona), with a consultation on its constitutionality, as well as by the historic sporting event in the World Cup semifinals of…

The European Court of Justice will set a precedent on the Amnesty law for the first time on Thursday and will give the green light for the Constitutional Court (TC) to rule on the protection appeals pending resolution two years after the entry into force of the criminal forgetfulness. The ruling, beyond the legal effects, will have political repercussions. If favorable, it will represent a boost to the Government of Pedro Sánchez’s bet – heavily criticized in the first part of the legislature by PP and Vox – and will begin to clear the way for the return of former president Carles Puigdemont and former ministers Lluís Puig and Toni Comín, who are still expatriated.

This has been a week of clarification. Two credible surveys, the one published by La Vanguardia in two installments (Sunday and Monday), and the one released by the newspaper El País on Monday, surveys conducted by the companies Ipsos and 40dB, indicate that the right is clearly going for…

The European justice system will rule next week on the amnesty that Pedro Sánchez’s Government approved for the leaders of the procés. If it endorses it, the greatest constitutional crisis in Spain in this democratic era will be about to conclude. Meanwhile, Catalan society…

“In August, with the cool weather, we will reflect on the calendar,” they ironically claim at Moncloa about the key dates Pedro Sánchez is considering for the final stretch of the legislature, in which the only thing he cannot foresee in advance are the judicial landmines that may still explode amid the avalanche of cases of alleged corruption affecting the Government and the PSOE.

Pope Leo XIV asked this Sunday, during the Corpus Christi Mass, that religiosity not be “a museum of the past to visit” and stressed that Christians are “called to be present in the situations and challenges of society” and in the “construction of the common good.” “No one can kneel before the Lord and despise their brother,” he declared during the homily.