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Salvador Illa and the Government go on a get-together in Terra Alta to prepare for the school year.

The Catalan government analyzes the challenges ahead at the start of the new school year during a workshop in Arnes.

President Salvador Illa at the first executive council meeting after the holidays.
29/08/2025
2 min

BarcelonaTerra Alta is the destination chosen by the Government for its third coexistenceThe President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and his advisors will travel to Arnes this Friday to hold a series of working sessions during which, until Saturday, they will analyze the challenges of the new academic year. They will do so afterward. having held the first meeting of the executive council Returning from vacation, he has already approved a decree law to continue advancing the construction of the Catalan Treasury while awaiting the implementation of the new one-off financing. Negotiating the 2026 budget will be one of the first matters the Catalan executive will have to open, so he will seek out the two investiture partners, Esquerra (Republic of Catalonia) and Comuns (Communist Left). Juntos, for its part, has already ruled out supporting it..

A year ago, the Catalan socialists began their journey in the Generalitat with similar working days. in the Poblet monasteryIlla chose this location to demonstrate his commitment to the region and to take advantage of the archives of President Josep Tarradellas, whom the Catalan president admires and champions. The following work sessions were held in April in the Vall de Núria. prior trip with the rack railway. So, the tariff war declared by Donald Trump had a direct impact on the government's agenda, who dedicated the meeting to fine-tuning a response plan for the most affected sectorsThis August, the Government is arriving in Terres de l'Ebre after a summer that devastated the Els Ports area, with a fire in Paüls that burned 3,321 hectares and resulted in the death of a firefighter. It has already been declared a disaster area.

The Government reaches September with a new front opened by the railway chaos in Cercanías and with pressure from partners to comply with agreements already signed before making new ones. Esquerra warns the socialists that, in Catalonia and Madrid, they must get their act together to unblock the new financing model, guaranteeing ordinality, while Comuns warns that, if the Government does not activate the inspectorate To verify compliance with the housing law, they will not sit down to negotiate. In any case, this Friday Illa will begin the session with a visit to the Arnes town hall, where Junts governs with an absolute majority. Immediately afterward, at 12:00, he will open the session at the Vilar Rural Arnes hotel with an open address, but without questions from the media. The meeting will then continue behind closed doors.

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