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PP and Vox Finalize Budget Deal with Migrant Return Funds and Language Academy Cuts

The Valencian 2025 budget advances with last-minute amendments allocating €2 million for unaccompanied minors' repatriation and significant reductions to cultural funding.

Diputados de Vox y PP hablan durante uno de los recesos de la Comisión de Hacienda, ayer, antes de votar las enmiendas.
El portavoz adjunto de Vox, Joaquín Alés, durante la Comisión de Hacienda, este jueves.
Imagen de archivo del presidente de la Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, y el portavoz de Vox, Jose María Llanos, en las Cortes Valencianas

Overview

  • The PP and Vox reached a last-minute agreement to allocate €2 million for collaboration agreements aimed at repatriating unaccompanied migrant minors to their countries of origin.
  • The budget also includes €100,000 for medical age-verification tests on minors under regional guardianship, to be conducted at three Valencian hospitals.
  • A €760,000 funding cut was imposed on the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, reducing its budget to €2.2 million, with impacts on cultural and linguistic initiatives.
  • Earlier in the week, a Vox proposal for €5.5 million to return former tutored migrants was blocked by the PP, redirecting those funds to socio-laboral integration in origin countries.
  • The 2025 Valencian budget is set for plenary approval next Thursday, solidifying the PP-Vox alliance and reflecting broader national debates on migration and cultural policies.