Overview
- The Basque Parliament, which voted Thursday, approved a motion urging the Basque Government to bolster the Ertzaintza’s tools to fight cybercrime.
- EH Bildu introduced the plan and won support from the PNV and PSE, creating an unusual alliance on security policy.
- Cyber offenses now account for about one in five recorded crimes in Euskadi, rising from roughly 9,000 to 28,000 cases in eight years, according to data cited by EH Bildu.
- The motion does not allocate money, so the government must now decide on staffing, training, and tech upgrades for police cyber units.
- The deal lands during a dispute between the PNV and PSE over Basque-language rules in public hiring and during talks on a new Statute, giving the accord extra political weight.