Overview
- Oriol Junqueras confirmed he will meet Pedro Sánchez at La Moncloa on Thursday to seek a breakthrough on a new funding model for Catalonia.
- Junqueras says an agreement is close and warns ERC will only engage on budgets once the financing reform and IRPF collection capacity are secured.
- The agenda bundles debt relief from the FLA, the financing framework with ordinalidad, IRPF collection, an investment consortium, rail improvements, and airport governance.
- Government plans are expected to be presented in the coming weeks at the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council, with reporting citing a possible €18 billion injection for regions that has not been formally detailed.
- Political hurdles remain as Junts pushes a different ‘cupo’-style scheme and is noncommittal on backing ERC’s path, while Vox has condemned the meeting publicly.