1 week Ago By Mireia Esteve
Agreement between the Catalan government and the ERC (Republican Revolutionary Party) to validate the second €1.3 billion credit supplement. This is the second injection of public funds that the executive will approve after validating €2.
1 billion at the end of March. All of this is intended to address the day-to-day management of the Generalitat (Catalan government) after the government had to extend the budget. Republican spokesperson Isaac Albert has announced a pact that includes almost €1 billion to pay civil servants' salaries and address the increase in the CPI, and €388 million to finance the tariff plan announced by Salvador Illa.
This last allocation, however, must be specified in a working group that the executive has committed to forming, according to Albert, and which should serve to determine how the aid will be distributed. Of these 388 million euros, 30 million will be allocated to aid for farmers affected by the recent hailstorms, a request that ERC had made in recent weeks—20 million in direct aid and 10 million to improve agricultural infrastructure. Esquerra has defended its support for the second credit supplement because it does not want to put obstacles in the way of the day-to-day management of the Government and, especially, "in favor of the productive fabric.
" The Republicans, in this regard, assert that they have agreed with the executive that the tariff plan should include aid for companies that export to the United States, but also for companies that are part of "the entire value chain," that is, companies that work with the export sector indirectly. Esquerra has also asked the Government to ensure that this plan guarantees "work income": "All public aid must be linked to the stability of the labor market." In any case, the aid must be specified by this working group.
"Now the tariff crisis is in "We don't know how it will evolve in the coming weeks and months," Albert stated, justifying the fact that the destination of this aid has not yet been finalized: "We want to be there and we must be deliberate about where to allocate it." 500 million more. ERC still has to negotiate this third package of public money and, in this sense, one of the issues it intends to include is an item to maintain free education for children from birth to three years old.
The Republicans will set their priorities based on how the budgetary research agreements progress," Albert stated..
