Working in the network of Spanish embassies and consulates is far from the idyll associated with diplomacy. This is what is denounced by both the personnel working for the State abroad and the representatives of Spanish citizens residing abroad who are users of this network. All of them have long been fighting for an improvement of resources in the face of the "collapse" they claim to be experiencing in consular services. "There is anger" with the ministry, diplomatic sources explain to el ARA, denouncing the indifference on the part of the Spanish government, despite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assuring this newspaper that they are working to resize the service.

The Minister for the European Union and External Action, Jaume Duch (Barcelona, ​​​​1962), visits the ARA a few days before travelling to Brussels with the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and six months after the inauguration of the socialist executive.

The Court of Auditors has begun to communicate the millionaire bails to political leaders and senior executives who were responsible for the external action of the Generalitat between 2011 and 2017. Two weeks ago, for Sant Jordi, the court already summoned ex presidents Artur Mas and Carles Puigdemont; the former vice president Oriol Junqueras; the ex MP Raül Romeva, and about thirty other officials and former officials of the Government for alleged irregularities. The reasons: conferences, trips and expenses in the delegations of Catalonia in other countries that the judge considers that they may have exceeded the powers of the Generalitat. Above all, the magnifying glass is fixed on the Diplocat, which already took the main stage in the Catalan independence bid trial. In fact, the former secretary general of Diplocat has been the first of those involved in knowing the bail he faces: Albert Royo reported yesterday that the Court of Auditors asks him for 4.5 million euros. Royo, in a message on his Twitter account, has asked for help from the Caixa de Solidaritat.