Overview
- The EU Advocate General endorsed an amnesty covering embezzlement and terrorism, a nonbinding view that, if followed by the Court of Justice, could allow Carles Puigdemont to return to Catalonia in the spring without arrest.
- Junts has set conditions for cooperation that include the amnesty and Puigdemont’s return, EU official status for Catalan, the transfer of immigration powers to Catalonia, and laws targeting multireoffending and squatting.
- Pedro Sánchez has publicly taken responsibility for past failures with Junts, yet both sides acknowledge only a tentative truce and minimal communication.
- Junts accuses the PSOE-led government of failing to deliver roughly half of the funds budgeted for Catalonia and questions passing 2026 accounts while earlier payments remain unpaid.
- Junts says it will not back a no-confidence motion with the PP, as a CEO poll shows Aliança Catalana drawing support and tying Junts for third place in the Catalan parliament.