Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Sánchez and Junqueras, meeting to unblock funding'

We've all had to return to normal without warming up: on January 3rd, Trump bombed Caracas and President Maduro is being taken to New York to be tried..

AND now threatens Greenland Because, as they say in his government, "We are a superpower"All this in less than a week, in the first hours of the new year. Don't miss our reports and analysis to understand why Trump has captured Maduro but hasn't brought down the regime and says that She works with Delcy Rodríguez (Maduro's number two) and not with Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado., or to what extent we are dealing with a swap: by controlling Venezuela's oil from now on, the United StatesThe Cuban regime falls, Russia loses an ally but in return keeps a part of Ukraine, and thus the superpowers dominate their areas of influence.

In any case, since this is the law of the strongest, these days we feel that the world has changed scale, that we are pieces on a chessboard and our problems are small. But since they still exist, we must deal with them.

Tomorrow, Pedro Sánchez and Oriol Junqueras will meet at the Moncloa Palace. It is a meeting with strong symbolic weight (a former political prisoner received at the Moncloa Palace; the first was Jordi Turull), but also with strong political content, allowing Sánchez to say that he continues to support the groups that invested in him. The content is the financing agreement

It's very close and should be finalized tomorrow, with Junqueras stating after the meeting that Esquerra has managed to agree on a new financing model.

Sources directly involved in the negotiations have told this ARA analysis that the expectation for the meeting is that the issues related to financing, which go beyond the model and the amount, will be resolved.

And these things that aren't (completely) finalized and that have been left to the final touches by Sánchez and Junqueras are the Catalan Tax Agency (how it will collect personal income tax, starting when, with what technical and human resources, what happens to the collected funds) and also how compliance will be guaranteed.

One of those attending the meeting is Isaac Albert, a spokesperson for Esquerra Republicana (ERC), who stated this morning on Catalunya Ràdio that the agreement "will respect the principle of ordinality." This means that Catalonia, which is the third largest contributor, must also be the third largest recipient of funds. Let's remember that this is money coming from Catalonia; it's not that the State is being generous.

However, remember that although it has taken more than two years to reach this agreement, its signing by the Spanish government and ERC is necessary but not sufficient. It must then go to Congress, and the votes of the group that supported Sánchez's investiture are not entirely guaranteed. We are talking about the great taboo: money and Catalonia. And Congress will have to debate it just as the Vice President for Economic Affairs, María Jesús Montero, will be preparing her campaign for the Andalusian elections. Tomorrow's meeting, which must end well (otherwise, it's best not to go), should allow Sánchez to unblock the situation Montero has been dragging her feet on.

Good morning.