Overview
- After roughly four hours at the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy on Jan. 14, every autonomous community present except Catalonia rejected the government’s financing proposal.
- Castilla‑La Mancha’s finance chief said he would not rule out going to court, arguing his region would remain funded below the national average under the plan.
- Catalonia’s economy minister Alicia Romero called the proposal a window of opportunity and defended an expected gain of about €4.7 billion, insisting solidarity is not in doubt.
- Regional representatives complained they were given no technical tables or metrics, and Finance Minister María Jesús Montero described the €21 billion for 2027 as a forecast rather than a fully detailed figure.
- The PP lined up against the plan as negotiated behind the regions’ backs, Madrid officials predicted it would not pass Congress, and Junts said it will push an alternative ‘economic concert’ model during the parliamentary process.