"The data is bad, and we'll have to hold on for a long time to avoid going backwards."

Barcelona"I gaze at the stars in a daze," begins the group Mishima, in front of a beating heart in the Oval Room of the National Museum of Art, at the presentation of the Sant Jordi Crosses 2025. On stage, 21 personalities and 10 entities have collected the highest recognition from the Generalitat in "the disciplines that are necessary for progress," Sonia Hernández Almodóvar, and cited commitment, creativity, perseverance, drive, language, science, culture, research. "The strength of a country is not measured only by its institutions but also by the human quality of its people," she noted.

In a sober but ceremonial event, with representatives from all the presidents of the democracy and the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, President Salvador Illa celebrated the "vitality of Catalonia over time." Isla referred to the global challenges that the country faces - "our democratic European model of prosperity and the welfare state are at stake," He warned—against which "the way of doing and being, of living and coexisting" in Catalonia and Europe has won, with the values of "humanism, democracy, and the European people," he stated. And he emphasized that it is time for consensus—on language, on health, and in the fight against poverty—because "a Catalonia against inequalities is a guarantee of prosperity." "In the times we live in, we have three options: to abstain, to be indignant, or to commit, which does change things," he concluded, celebrating the commitment of the award winners.

Among the award winners There were from the businessman and president of the Planeta Group, José Creuheras, to the actress Loles León, passing by the filmmaker Carla Simón, the musician from Mishima Marc Lloret (an award that his children have received posthumously), the playwright Lluïsa Cunillé, the politician Joan Saura, the artist Eugènia BalcThe Newspaper, Francisco Javier Moll. Journalist Rosa Maria Calaf was one of those chosen to speak on behalf of all of them. Calaf gave a speech full of political commitment. She warned of the "risk of fanaticism taking over the debate, of institutions being weakened, of polarization destroying dialogue, of the lives lost in the Mediterranean not even mattering to us," she said, concerned that journalism could be swallowed up by internet preachers. "Freedom of the press and expression do not protect lies. A hollow democracy will not be able to defend rights and freedoms," she asserted. "The data is bad, and we will have to resist hard to avoid going backwards," the journalist and feminist leader concluded. The other spokesperson, representing the organizations, was Nasser Ahmed Kamel, the secretary general of the intergovernmental organization Union for the Mediterranean, who—in English—celebrated the shared values, "the irreducible belief in human connection, social progress, dialogue, and cooperation for peace."

Maria del Mar Bonet has put the oceanic seal of musical excellence paying homage to the 150th anniversary of the poet Miquel Costa i Llobera by performing The Formentor pine: "Tree, my heart envies you. Over the impure earth, as a holy token, I will carry your memory."

Sant Jordi Crosses 2025

• Josep Manuel Anglada, mountaineer
• Montserrat Baiget, pharmacist and researcher
• Eugenia Balcells, visual artist
• Joan Caball, farmer and union leader
• Rosa Maria Calaf, journalist
• Montse Colomé, choreographer
• José Creuheras, businessman
• Luisa Cunillé, playwright
• Ramon Folch i Guillén, biologist and ecologist
• Mercè Ibarz, writer
• Loles León, actress
• Marc Lloret, musician and cultural manager
• Isidor Marí, philologist and sociolinguist
• Josep Maria Mata-Perelló, geologist
• Francisco Javier Moll, businessman and editor
• Mireia Montané i Tuca, pedagogue
• Josep Pons, musician
• Laura Roigé, businesswoman
• Manuel Roure Arnaldo, optician and optometrist
• Joan Saura Laporta, politician
• Carla Simón, filmmaker
• Lleida Puppet Center
• College of Civil Engineers of Catalonia
• The Cuban
• Federation of the Three Tombs of San Antonio de Barcelona
• Gay Liberation Front of Catalonia (FAGC)
• Catalan ALS Foundation Miquel Valls
• Jaume Huguet Institute - Former Valls School of Labor
• Taste of Grace
• Union for the Mediterranean
• Venerable Congregation of Our Lady of Sorrows of Vic