Overview
- The Xunta says it received an initial draft agreement after a first technical meeting held on January 28 in Santiago.
- Regional officials expect the central government to deliver the economic memorandum by the end of February as the step before the Comisión Mixta de Transferencias.
- According to the Xunta, the draft covers initial residence-and-work authorizations for employed and self-employed workers, cross-border roles, seasonal activity, and holders of long-stay study or volunteer permits, plus renewals and territorial modifications within Galicia.
- The regional government aims to exercise the competence in 2026 to ease state-level backlogs and address labor shortages in agriculture, tourism and construction.
- Galicia points to Catalonia and the Basque Country as precedents and criticizes the newly announced extraordinary regularization for lacking detail, dialogue and clear vetting procedures.