Overview
- Finance Minister María Jesús Montero announced she will present no concrete reform at Monday’s Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy, offering only a status update while moving ahead with deficit and spending-ceiling plans.
- On a visit to Palma, Catalan president Salvador Illa urged collaboration with the Balearic government on a model that recognizes territorial singularities such as ordinality, real population and tourism, and he defended debt relief as an act of justice.
- Balearic president Marga Prohens demanded any reform respect ordinality and factors like insularity, asserted the islands are the second-largest net contributor, rejected a singular financing model for Catalonia, opposed debt forgiveness and insisted talks be multilateral at the CPFF.
- PP-run regional governments prepared a united front for the CPFF to oppose debt write-offs and what they describe as a Catalan ‘quota’, as Montero criticized Alberto Núñez Feijóo for not forging a single party stance.
- Illa’s Mallorca agenda also centered on migration and housing, arguing integration does not threaten identity, and he received public backing from Congress president Francina Armengol for his calm, solidaristic approach.