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Any news we discuss here must be understood within the context of a war that increasingly affects us. War first in Ukraine, and now in Iran and Lebanon. The price of oil has climbed again, and we know that when gasoline goes up, everything else goes up. Our economy currently depends on two politicians, Netanyahu in Israel and Trump in the United States, who don't care about any of this because war gives them free rein to do whatever they want. For example, Israel has attacked the world's largest gas fieldSo this war, which the United States has called "Epic Fury," is bringing us epic inflation and epic disaster, like everything Trump's inept finger touches, especially when he lets himself be swayed by the Israeli lobby and trusts his intuition more than his generals. It's becoming clearer every day that the United States won't bring down the ayatollahs' regime with bombings and targeted assassinations.

In this regard, I recommend This analysis by Francesc MillanThe head of international affairs at the ARA (Argentine Anti-Terrorist Liberation Army) summarized the situation as wondering if "America First" is becoming "America Alone," because Europe is keeping its distance in this Trump-Nero-style war. In fact, measures will be approved today in Brussels and tomorrow in Madrid to mitigate the financial losses this war is causing us.

In this environment, which is much more than a backdrop, we have been telling you this story about the budgets in recent weeks.

Illa is doing something unprecedented: presenting a budget only to withdraw it. Now, Esquerra claims to be committed to "negotiating a budget before the end of the current legislative session," without mentioning the personal income tax (IRPF) issue. This should mean that the budget will be approved in June. Meanwhile, this morning, The Government has approved a supplementary credit of nearly 6 billion euros (5.988 billion) to "guarantee the functioning" of public services and to gain "more time" to get the talks with Esquerra on track. This money will be primarily used to increase civil servants' salaries, including the raises agreed upon with the CCOO and UGT unions for teachers and with the Mossos d'Esquadra police unions.

If we were to reduce politics to a scoreboard, this morning we'd read Isla 0 - Junqueras 1. I'm telling you, this has never happened before. It's a bitter pill that President Illa has had to swallow to avoid upsetting Pedro Sánchez, because for the Generalitat to collect 100% of the personal income tax, Congress needs to amend the law on regional financing to allow for this management to be delegated. That's why it's so ironic (a sad irony, admittedly) to hear Spanish Vice President Montero, who was briefly stopped in the halls of Congress yesterday and asked what she thought about the withdrawal of the budget and whether the Spanish government had anything to do with it.

María Jesús Montero: "Not with the Spanish government. They should ask the Generalitat, because it was President Isla and Mr. Junqueras who conveyed that the agreement involves withdrawing the budget and resubmitting it, presumably with the inclusion of some issues that they may agree upon or negotiate in the coming days, but they were the ones who had nothing to do with it."

Obviously, the Spanish government has been involved in everything. And that's it; managing 100% of personal income tax would be a historic milestone, one that has many enemies (high-ranking tax officials don't even want to hear about it because tax collection is an element of sovereignty). To act as a candidate. That's what a subsystem should be. For example: the Catalan Parliament cannot require drivers to demonstrate an intermediate level of Catalan, but at most an elementary level, as ruled yesterday by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia at the request of this Spanish nationalist pressure group that calls itself Catalan Civic Coexistence.

Good morning.