Antoni Bassas's analysis: 'Other forms of pornography'

Reality is always changing, but the speed at which it's changing these days is impressive. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden are sending soldiers to Greenland. And Denmark, of course. Spain says it's considering it. These are small contingents that will carry out "reconnaissance" work, in a clear symbolic message to Donald Trump: this is Danish sovereign territory, it's European Union territory, and we don't accept threats. Trump must be laughing, but these countries have done the only thing they can do, which is not to look the other way.

At the same time that these small detachments were arriving in Greenland, The President of the United States received Venezuelan María Corina Machado at the White Housewho gave him the Nobel Peace Prize medal.

The image is pornographic: above all, let's not make the narcissist angry, let's make the child happy who's angry because he didn't get the prize he deserved more than anyone. Flattering Trump to end up becoming president of Venezuela. It seems to me that giving him the medal will only serve to feed Trump's ego and make María Corina Machado continue yearning for the presidency while Trump is cozying up to Nicolás Maduro's number two. Deep down, what the Venezuelan politician did yesterday isn't very different from what Von der Leyen did praising the tariff agreements or Rutte saying that Trump was everyone's "daddy."

We're not losing sight of the funding

Yesterday, Jordi Turull said he hoped the financing model agreed upon by Esquerra could be improved during the parliamentary process. The Spanish government and Esquerra are open (and eager) to it, to the point that Junqueras has requested a meeting with Puigdemont. Junts will vote in favor of forgiving the debt of the regional liquidity fund if it is voted on separately. And yet another tactical move: presenting a comprehensive amendment proposing the special tax arrangement, as Junts has announced, so that the PP and Vox cannot vote for it. In this way, the parliamentary process for the model agreed upon between the Spanish government and Esquerra could continue. There are still months to go. We'll see how it ends.

Good morning.