Overview
- Pradales framed integration as a two‑way path of rights and obligations and urged migrants to commit fully to Basque society.
- He called on leaders of migrant communities to spearhead a shared commitment to social cohesion and common rules.
- He cited a tenfold rise in the migrant population, from about 30,000 in 2000 to more than 300,000 today.
- He said the Spanish government asked to postpone the bilateral commission on pending competences to mid‑January and described the lack of progress as worrying.
- He pledged to further normalize and revitalize euskera despite recent court rulings that curtail language requirements for public‑sector jobs.