Salvador Illa is preparing Catalonia's response to the crisis in the Middle East.

BarcelonaThe President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has convened the parliamentary groups at the Palau de la Generalitat to address the potential consequences of the conflict in the Middle East and analyze how Catalonia should respond. The meeting began in the early afternoon and includes representatives from all parliamentary groups except Vox and Aliança Catalana. This summit is the result of of a request that Junts conveyed to the president in the last control session of the Parliament to share measures that anticipate the negative effects of the conflict.

Illa attends accompanied by the Minister of the Presidency, Albert Dalmau, the Minister of Economy, Alícia Romero, and the Minister of European Union and Foreign Action, Jaume Duch. This meeting comes against the backdrop of budget negotiations, at a delicate moment for the Catalan government: with one week to go before the vote on the amendments in their entirety, Esquerra remains in the "No to the accounts, which would doom them to failure.

This Friday, the Spanish government spokesperson and minister, Elma Saiz, confirmed that talks on legislative changes to allow Catalonia to assume the collection of personal income tax remain stalled. "There is no agreement, but we will continue working," she said, citing the agreement for the new financing model as an example that, even on "complex" issues like this, a solution can eventually be found.

Since the escalation of the conflict with the US attack on Iran, the Catalan government has redoubled its calls for "responsibility" from the Republicans in an attempt to save the budget. Before the meeting with the political groups this Friday, the government also held meetings with employers' associations and unions. within the framework of the Consell del Diàleg Socialand with the chemical, metallurgical, meat, cava, and wine sectors.

Catalan socialists are committed to adopting crisis response measures that complement those implemented by the Spanish government. Initially, the central government has ruled out lowering the VAT on food, but it does plan to intervene to prevent electricity bills from skyrocketing. "We will protect citizens from rising fuel prices, regardless of the instrument we use to do so," explained Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo on RNE.