Reality is always changing, but the speed at which it's changing these days is impressive. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden are sending soldiers to Greenland. And Denmark, of course. Spain says it's considering it. These are small contingents that will carry out "reconnaissance" work, in a clear symbolic message to Donald Trump: this is Danish sovereign territory, it's European Union territory, and we don't accept threats. Trump must be laughing, but these countries have done the only thing they can do, which is not to look the other way.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo asked Catalan business leaders this Friday to They will help him convince Junts to move forward with a motion of no confidence against Pedro SánchezThe request was not well received by Carles Puigdemont's party, and on Saturday, the general secretary of Junts, Jordi Turull, retorted: "The first thing he should do is not ask for help from business owners, but apologize to them for having asked them to leave Catalonia," Turull stated during his address at the party's national council meeting. "He should apologize for his systemic mistreatment while they were in government," he added. Turull criticized the People's Party (PP) for having the "audacity" to make this request to Catalan business owners and criticized the PP for boycotting issues such as the official status of Catalan in the European Union. The Junts leader also criticized the PP for carrying out a "preemptive vote of no confidence" against former Barcelona mayor Xavier Trias and allowing Jaume Collboni to become mayor of the Catalan capital. "They should also apologize for everything they did from the state's dirty tricks department to destroy so many Catalan political leaders, both civilly and politically," he added.

The CEO survey that predicts a tie between Junts and Aliança Catalana Being the third largest party doesn't worry Jordi Turull. At least, that's what the general secretary of Junts tried to convey this Tuesday after the poll was published on Monday, indicating that 21% of Catalans who voted for Carles Puigdemont in the Catalan Parliament would now vote for Aliança Catalana. However, this won't cause Junts to change course. "We won't do things for four votes that will make us blush with shame two years from now [...]. It would be a contradiction if, because of some polls, we made a U-turn," he said at a press conference organized by the Barcelona DailyThe survey, conducted by journalism students at UPF, is the result of a narrative and has both "confessable and unconfessable" intentions behind it, according to Turull. "I'm not worried about the polls, I'm worried about the situation in the country," he said, noting that the CEO's last survey was conducted six months before the 2024 elections. He also predicted a drop in Junts' support. which ultimately did not happen –at that time, however, the party had not yet confirmed Puigdemont as its candidate–. Nevertheless, the secretary general of Junts has avoided vetoing agreements with Sílvia Orriols' party.

The reluctance of a sector of Junts to break all relations with the PSOE They do not change the course of the party's leadership, which has in its favor the result of the internal consultation that endorsed that decision. The Secretary General, Jordi Turull, has responded in this regard to the mayor of Figueres, Jordi Masquef, who in an interview on the ARA He expressed his support for negotiating the state budget to continue pursuing "useful politics" from Madrid, despite the break announced (and defended) by the leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont. Speaking from Vic this Saturday, Turull maintained that it is "unsustainable" to continue making deals with the PSOE, given their failure to comply with agreements on issues such as Catalan representation in Europe, the transfer of immigration powers to the Generalitat (Catalan government), and the lack of progress in resolving the political conflict. "No one wants to do useful politics and reach agreements with people who don't keep their word," Turull retorted to Masquef.

"Do you agree with the proposal of the national executive leadership to terminate the investiture agreement with the PSOE due to its repeated failure to fulfill its commitments?" This is the question that Junts members will have to answer, with a "yes" or a "no", to validate the agreement. the break with the socialists that the party leadership agreed to yesterdayThis was explained by the Secretary General of Junts, Jordi Turull, in an interview this morning on RAC1. The question proposed by the leadership has already received the support of 93.36% of the votes of the party's national council, which met tonight, which will allow the voting of members to begin this Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. and end at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, when the results will be made public.

The week in the Congress has struck down the immigration transfer In Catalonia, agreed between the PSOE and Junts, and with the relationship between the two parties hanging by a thread, Jordi Turull delved this Friday into the Socialists' failures in terms of financing. However, he did so by pointing to Andalusia to explain the grievances of the current model for Catalans. These statements were not well received by the Socialist ranks and have also received a response from the Regional Government, where the PP governs.

The transfer of immigration powers to Catalonia, agreed between the PSOE and Junts, was derailed this Tuesday in Congress by the veto of Podemos, which combined its votes with those of the PP and Vox to overturn it. The purple party's refusal to allow the law to take its first step in the lower house—what was voted on was its consideration, not its final approval—led to its failure after a debate in which accusations of "centralism" against Podemos to prevent Catalonia from expanding its self-government were mixed with "at the same time." The latter is Podemos's argument to defend the vote against its four deputies. Carles Puigdemont's party, meanwhile, attacked the purple party, accusing it of wanting to apply a "155" in Catalonia on immigration matters with "extreme Spain."

Together, the coalition is once again stumping Salvador Illa's government in the 2026 budget negotiations. As he did last year, has withdrawn from the talks for the new budget, considering that the pacts the PSC maintains with Esquerra and Comuns are "incompatible" with its national vision. This was confirmed by the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, in an interview with the Efe news agency. "Isla represents the denationalization of Catalan institutions. We cannot support even a blank check for these policies. We are the alternative. Isla represents the antithesis of policies that are more necessary than ever for the middle class," he stated.

A year ago, the plan to pick up Carles Puigdemont and return him was a resounding success. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), who hadn't anticipated that the former president would not show up at the Parliament for Salvador Illa's investiture after his speech at the Arc de Triomf, were unable to arrest him. But one image nearly ruined the escape of the Junts leader on that sweltering August 8th. It was the one taken by Maria, who prefers to remain anonymous, aware that the photograph she took with her cell phone could have thwarted a carefully designed plan to avoid his arrest.

The words of Podemos leader Ione Belarra in the ARA His opposition to the transfer of immigration powers because he believes the Mossos d'Esquadra would carry out "racist raids based on ethnic profiling" has provoked criticism from several pro-independence leaders, but also from the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa. "I will not allow anyone to question the professionalism of the Mossos d'Esquadra," he stated in a message to X. Hours earlier, the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, had also replied to the leader of Podemos, who demanded that she apologize for "inciting hate crimes" against the Mossos d'Esquadra, saying in statements to TV3: "However, Belarra maintained her initial statements and stated that Isla "does not know the country and the reality that she governs," pointing to institutional racism.

The Spanish government won't fall for the time being, even though Vice President Yolanda Díaz refused to go to Congress today to sit next to Sánchez, and the PP and Vox said all kinds of things to the Spanish president. It all means: "You look like a skinned lamb, but you're the leader of the pack."

Having concluded the first meeting of the Socialist executive since the Santos Cerdán case, Pedro Sánchez is focusing these days on his parliamentary partners. The Socialist leader joined forces with his supporters to remain at the head of the Spanish government, and for now, the plurinational majority in Congress is agreeing to give him some breathing room. This is what happened this Tuesday at the meeting between the president of the Spanish executive and Junts (Junts). Despite being the investiture ally that has caused him the most headaches this term, Carles Puigdemont's party has abandoned the harsh tone and threats used on other occasions. "We are responsible people. We know the seriousness of the situation. We will not take hasty measures; we will take them with what is best for Catalonia in mind," stated Junts Secretary General Jordi Turull, upon leaving the hour-and-a-half meeting at Moncloa Palace, which he attended with the spokesperson for Congress, Míriam Nogueras.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's decision to dismiss his deputy, Santos Cerdán, for corruption has had a knock-on effect on the relationship between Junts and the PSOE: the members of the judiciary have been left without an interlocutor. Cerdán was in charge of the Spanish Prime Minister's most sensitive missions, so he entrusted him with reaching an agreement with former President Carles Puigdemont. In fact, the PSOE's organizational secretary rose to the political forefront in Catalonia primarily due to the photo taken in the European Parliament negotiating with Puigdemont and the Secretary General of Junts, Jordi Turull. Until now, it has been Cerdán and former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero who have participated in the monthly meetings in Switzerland with the international mediator. This dialogue has now been left in the air due to the crisis surrounding Pedro Sánchez.

Expectations for Tuesday's European Union Council meeting were high. The Moncloa insisted that this was a key meeting for achieve official status for Catalan in European institutions and that they had put all the diplomatic machinery at the disposal of the cause demanded by Junts. However, several diplomatic delegations of member states to the EU assure ARA that the Spanish government did not contact them again to discuss the official status of Catalan until just three or four weeks before this Tuesday's ministerial meeting, in which a majority of European partners requested a postponement of the vote on the proposal.

Politics takes so many turns that one day you're prosecuted for sedition and the next you're part of a state agency like the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC). This is what happened to Pere Soler, director general of the Police during the 1-O referendum, who joined the CNMC last January at the suggestion of the Spanish government and with the endorsement of Junts.

Juntos sets a new date to pressure the PSOE: if the Socialists have not complied with the agreements by May, they will withdraw their parliamentary support. The warning was issued by the party's general secretary, Jordi Turull, in an interview on Spanish TVE: "If the Brussels agreement is not fulfilled, we will no longer support the government." Turull recalled that this is the deadline they had agreed upon with the international mediator. However, the regional leader ruled out the possibility of Junts entering into a possible motion of no confidence against Pedro Sánchez's Spanish government.

Junts backtracks, withdrawing the request for a vote of confidence in the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez. "Despite noting that there is no confidence in the PSOE, [the executive] has decided to respond to the mediator's request and make a final effort to avoid a breakup," said this afternoon the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, at a press conference. Thus, the Junts group in Congress will withdraw the non-law proposal "to give more time to comply with the agreements" that the socialists have not complied with, as he explained, adhering to the "extension" requested by the international mediator of the negotiation space in Switzerland, the diplomat from El Salvador Francisco Galindo. The decision, adopted unanimously, was taken at the national executive, held just the day before the debate scheduled in Congress.

The mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, was elated this Wednesday after Junts would distance herself from the motion of censure to remove her from office. For his part, the general secretary of the Junta, Jordi Turull, has gone against her and has justified the decision. On the microphones of RAC1, Silvia Orriols has highlighted the "trembling of the legs" and has shown herself "open to agreements" with opposition forces, but has made clear her distrust and has said that it is contagious to the absolute majority for the municipal elections of 2027, to which she has guaranteed that it has been guaranteed that. In any case, she has been predisposed to weave the understanding outside of Ripoll with Junts and other "Catalanist formations", despite the harsh criticism she has made of them. A scenario of understanding and breaking the isolation imposed on Aliança Catalana to which Turull has closed the door to the same station. When asked if he rules out making a pact with Aliança Catalana, he was blunt: "I do, I do not want to use hate speeches [...]. We do not want to know anything about it and we want to fight it," he said. And he did not stop there: "Catalonia needs immigration, we do not feel close to it, it is the most anti-to-what Catalonia represents and has been," he concluded.

This Saturday Together for Catalonia (JxCat) will hold its first congress in Argelers. Two years ago the party was formally founded in an online event, in the midst of the pandemic. Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and former Catalan National Assembly (ANC) leader Jordi Sànchez were anointed president and secretary general, although internal tension and strife abounded. Now, Puigdemont and Sànchez, who played leading roles in the 2017 Independence bid, have stepped aside and a new tandem has taken charge: former Catalan minister Jordi Turull, who was a cabinet member in 2017, will be the new secretary general; Speaker Laura Borràs, who has been the party's visible face since the 2020 primaries, will become president. Turull and Borràs managed to piece together a unitary candidacy at the last minute and will now face the challenge of making the power sharing they have agreed on at the top, with half of the leadership team from each camp, operational. They will also have to guide the party after the Puigdemont era. The former president was a uniting figure within the party, but he will now focus on the Council for the Republic instead.

Former Catalan minister Jordi Turull and Parliament Speaker Laura Borràs will present a joint candidacy at the Together for Catalonia (JxCat) party congress on June 4 in Argelers (Catalunya Nord). Both have appeared this Tuesday at noon to present their candidacy: Laura Borràs will run for party president and Jordi Turull for secretary general. Yesterday morning they reached an agreement to share power in the party leadership: the statutes will be changed so the president has more powers –it was one of Borràs's conditions to accept the position and not run for secretary general– and other leadership posts have also been agreed. "We are the fathers and sons of October 1st [2017 Independence Referendum]", Turull proclaimed during the press conference to present the candidacy, and Borràs has described it as a "very good agreement" and an "opportunity".