Overview
- The bilateral Junta de Seguridad agreed that information from the Ertzaintza will be incorporated into Policía Nacional reports used in foreigner-expulsion procedures for cases involving serious crime, repeat offending, criminal-group membership, violence, or major disruption to public order in the Basque Country.
- The arrangement is a coordination and information‑sharing measure rather than a transfer of national immigration or expulsion powers, which remain the responsibility of the Policía Nacional and the central government.
- Officials who led the telematic meeting included Interior Minister Fernando Grande‑Marlaska and Basque Security Minister Bingen Zupiria, and the package of measures responds to requests from Basque authorities seeking a greater role in public-safety cases.
- The Junta de Seguridad also sealed a general ban on carrying bladed weapons in the Basque Country and new steps aimed at reducing repeat offending, with further legal and regulatory changes to be defined by the national government.
- If implemented, the changes could speed the inclusion of local operational context in expulsion files and affect how cases are presented to prosecutors and judges, while raising questions about how the central government will convert coordination into formal rules and oversight.