Overview
- The Finance Ministry’s plan raises the regional financing system to €224,507 million in 2027, adding roughly €21,000 million to fund devolved services such as health and education.
- The proposal seeks greater equity, with an initial estimate that the gap between the best- and worst-financed regions would narrow from 27 to 16 percentage points.
- Reports of provisional distributions — including claims that about 40% of roughly €20 billion would go to Catalonia and Andalusia, and figures of €3,669 million for Valencia and €1,188 million for Murcia — have prompted criticism from PP-led regions and some PSOE administrations.
- The government is expected to pursue bilateral agreements with each autonomous community, echoing the approach used in the 2008 financing model.
- A broader package in negotiation includes partial regional debt relief and additional transfers that press reports say could exceed €100 billion.