Aragonès proposes that Catalonia collect all taxes and then transfer resources to the State | News from Catalonia

The Government of Pere Aragonès wants to control all the taxes paid in Catalonia. Manage and collect them and, later, transfer a part of the resources to the State, similar to the Basque concert but also including resources for a solidarity fund with “communities with less fiscal capacity.” That is the basis of the proposal … Read more

Pere Aragonès conditions the solidarity of the Catalan financing model to advances in territorial cohesion | News from Catalonia

One day after making public the content of the Generalitat’s proposal for Catalonia to have “singular financing” and already in the middle of the electoral pre-campaign, the president Pere Aragonès explained its content this Wednesday in Madrid. The Republican leader also recalled at an informative breakfast organized by Europa Press the good figures of the … Read more

The PP provokes an unprecedented clash between the Senate and Congress to keep the controversy over the amnesty alive | Spain

—Let’s go with everything. The warning issued by the PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, from the rostrum translated this Tuesday into an unprecedented scenario. The Popular Party advanced another phase in the game of resistance with its absolute majority in the Upper House against the action of the parliamentary majority of Congress, on … Read more

All against Illa | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

All against Salvador Illa. The surprise electoral call in Catalonia, by the work and will of the president of the Generalitat, the Republican Pere Aragonès, and without evidence of the collusion between ERC and PSC that Junts per Catalunya denounces, will place the socialist candidate as a stark target of the independentists. The former Minister … Read more

Sumar clings to the autonomy of the commons to justify its position in the budget crisis in Catalonia | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

In recent days, ERC and PSOE have shown their discomfort with the role of the second vice president of the Government, Yolanda Díaz, who publicly ruled out influencing the Catalan negotiations based on the plurinational nature of Sumar. A position that was also defended by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the only member of … Read more

Catalonia: The Government adapts and tries to take advantage of comfortable elections for the PSC | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

This was not the plan of the Government, which was working this week to carry out the 2024 Budgets. But the socialist sector of the Executive, with a leader like Pedro Sánchez, who has always boasted of its ability to adapt, has already completely changed the speech and now he seems convinced that the electoral … Read more

The approval of the amnesty kicks off the Catalan pre-campaign | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Those who advocated that the amnesty had to serve to give stability to Catalan politics, and by extension to Spanish politics, have come face to face with a new electoral advance in Catalonia. The approval on Thursday in Congress of the law that should make it possible to turn the page on the “repression” according … Read more

Puigdemont’s lawyer says that the ‘ex-president’ is willing to return to Spain and be arrested | Elections in Catalonia 12-M

Gonzalo Boye, Carles Puigdemont’s lawyer and one of the legal architects of the amnesty law agreed by the Government with the pro-independence parties, has assumed that the former president, If he has to be sworn in, “he is willing to return” to Spain “and be arrested.” The arrest, if it happens, will not prevent “him … Read more