Catalonia Asks Junts Not to Block the New Funding Model
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In the summer of 2024, the government of Pedro Sánchez committed itself to ERC and, by extension, to the Generalitat de Cataluña to approve a new model of regional financing as part of the package of agreements to support Salvador Illa’s candidacy as president of the Generalitat. Two years later, it has taken a decisive step to give effect to that commitment, and now it will be Parliament that ultimately determines whether or not it will be fulf…
The government managed to bring forward this Friday the new model of autonomous financing in the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council thanks to the quality vote of the Ministry of Finance and the support of the Canary Islands and Catalonia. The rest of the communities governed by the Popular Party voted against, as did two socialist governments, Asturias and Castilla-La Mancha.
The Councillor of Economy and Finances, Alicia Romero, has again asked Junts this Friday not to block the new model of financing agreed by the Socialists with ERC, a reform of the autonomous system that, he recalled, will allow Catalonia to receive 4,700 million euros more. "What we ask is that they allow the processing and that, during that process, we can negotiate those improvements that they deem necessary," Romero said from Madrid, where th…
The system negotiated in tripartite negotiations between the Treasury, Economy and ERC guarantees ordinality through "square" numbers for 2027, adds VAT transfers and increases resources, but for now leaves out the economic agreement and the full management of the IRPF.
The three-way system negotiated between Finance, Economy and ERC guarantees ordinality through "square" numbers by 2027, adds VAT transfers and increases resources, but leaves out for now the economic concert and the full management of the IRPF
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