Overview
- Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias said he will phone rector Joxerramon Bengoetxea today to try to ease the institutional clash over financing.
- UPV/EHU leadership has sought a substantial funding boost, warning that insufficient resources could lead to paralysis.
- The Basque executive maintains that the 2026 regional accounts already provide sufficient increases and has rejected the rector’s demand.
- This week the counselor questioned the university leadership’s motives, urged more rational proposals, and downplayed a meeting with the lehendakari.
- The counselor and the rector exchanged a courteous greeting at a public event on Wednesday, yet tensions remain unresolved and no compromise has been announced.