The same morning that her loyal aide from the start of the legislature –María Jesús Montero– handed over the baton to her successor –Carlos Cuerpo–, Pedro Sánchez met with Imanol Pradales to satisfy the demands that the PNB has been making for some time and to inject some oxygen into the legislature through advances in the Gernika Statute. "As you know, the Statute is still not fully complied with. There is a political agreement, and we have insisted on the need to do so quickly," the lehendakari stated upon leaving. The meeting, accompanied by a new meeting of the State-Euskadi Cooperation Bilateral Commission, comes exactly two months after the last meeting and fulfills the requirement to be held before Holy Week. On that occasion, despite having secured the transfer of five powers, Pradales left frustrated with the "non-compliance" of the Spanish government. But now he returns to Bilbao "reasonably satisfied" after having signed a "political agreement" for the transfer of seven new matters. The transfer of pensions, among other things, remains pending. The most significant thing is that the door has been opened for the Basque Country to participate in the management of airports "for the first time in history".

One of the great mysteries kept under lock and key by the Ministry of Finance is that of the adjusted population. It's the key tool for determining each autonomous community's share of funding, but calculating it becomes a real puzzle. People are assigned different values depending on their age, whether they live in a town or a city, whether they are unemployed, or whether they live on an island—among other factors. Some autonomous communities benefit more from the adjusted population, such as Extremadura, La Rioja, and Cantabria, while others... They would do much better if they used the actual population....like Catalonia. That's why every time a proposed funding model is presented, a flurry of figures ensues, depending on what's being compared. Below, we review the main figures before Wednesday's meeting between regional finance ministers and the Minister of Finance.

The Moncloa avoids making any comments for the moment on the Government's fund to pay the bonds of the Court of Auditors in the case for accounting responsibility against the foreign action of the Generalitat between 2011 and 2017, but warns that if it is not legal, it will appeal. The president of the Spanish executive, Pedro Sánchez, has assured that his government is studying the measure. "If it is subject to the law, nothing to object to. And if it is not, then obviously we will have to appeal", he said on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference in Tallinn.

The investiture impasse, added to the domino effect of the failed non-confidence vote in Murcia, which led to the surprise call for early elections in Madrid, paralysed everything. For more than two months the Catalan portfolio had been stuck in Madrid, even more so if we take into account the waiting period of the pandemic, but the proclamation of Pere Aragonès as 132 president of the Generalitat opens the door to a summer in which the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez, will have to face key decisions that he has tried to delay as much as possible. On the table he will have imminently the report of the pardons of the Supreme Court and the council of ministers will have to get involved. It will also be necessary to reopen the dialogue table. On the other side there will be an executive led this time by ERC, which has made it clear - for the peace of mind of the Spanish Government - that it is not committed to the unilateral route but that it can block the legislature in Madrid now that the Ciudadanos route has been extinguished.

Those close to Miquel Iceta (Barcelona, 1960) say he had been feeling discouraged for months. After forty years of struggling through the ups and downs of politics, the Independence bid and the lack of direction of a divided government, as well as the degradation of the institutions that he often attributes to the pro-independence movement, he was close to exhaustion, but also to the frustration of not having managed to build an alternative that was sufficiently attractive in the eyes of the Catalans. "The day he detects that a person can do it better, he will leave", repeated a leader very close to him in recent years. And he has done so. By giving Salvador Illa the chance to preside over the Generalitat, the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) leader renounces one of his personal objectives and, in the medium term, failitates transition in the party. In exchange, he received a ticket for Madrid to become a minister, one of the few roles that, despite always being among the favourites, he is yet play. Regardless of its official title (Territorial Policy and Civil Service), he will be the Catalonia Minister, and his objective, dialogue