UPF political science professor Carles Ramió, president of the expert committee for public administration reform (CETRA), speaks to ARA to explain the changes the government has pledged to promote.

The Catalan government commissioned a group of experts led by professor of political science and administration Carles Ramió to draft a proposal for public administration reform, a promise that various executives have embraced but that has never been realized with the necessary ambition and capacity for transformation. Well, Ramió's group has developed ten concrete proposals that, if implemented, would represent a true revolution in the public sector, changing everything from the way we work to the selection processes for civil servants and, above all, for the executives who are currently handpicked by political appointees.

At the beginning of its term, Salvador Illa's government set the goal of reforming public administration as its legislative objective. To this end, it has a group of experts (CETRA), led by professor of political science and public administration Carles Ramió, who has proposed up to ten measures for implementation. The most notable are: a reform to professionalize public administration; introducing artificial intelligence into the functioning of the Generalitat; changing the selection of civil servants; and ensuring that the administration is proactive in providing aid. "We are aware that we must combat skepticism from society, the media, and public servants themselves," Ramió admitted in statements to the press, since administrative reform is an issue that governments always have on their agenda and is never implemented. Below are the first ten measures the executive will work on, although some have not specified deadlines, such as the depoliticization of public administration, which remains in the hands of the government's schedule and the support of the other political parties.

Justice is the last ratio, the last argument, of the democratic system. It is the place where citizens, companies or other agents turn when they feel mistreated or are victims of abuse or aggression. We expect reparation from justice and, also, punishment for the guilty. Justice is fundamental to give the system meaning. If there is no justice, there is no democracy. And if it works poorly or defectively, it is the whole that is irremediably delegitimized. It is democracy that is devalued in the eyes of the people. It is precisely for this reason, because of the fundamental importance that, in democratic terms, but also moral, justice has, that I have never understood the blatant abandonment to which Spain has been subjected.

There is already a first image of the adjustment through which the State is adapting the contributions that the self-employed pay each month to their real net income. Today, the General Treasury of Social Security has donated to publish the first results of the annual regularization process of the quotes of the self-employed corresponding to the 2023 exercise, which will last until the end of April 2025. It has arrived after a review of the results. contributions and the guanys declarations in 2023, that is, after creating the data of the Social Security and the Tax Agency.

With a little delay compared to the first announcements, Barcelona has already activated the countdown to start works on the first four pedestrian-first streets in Eixample's superilla: Consell de Cent, Rocafort, Borrell and Girona, and the squares that will appear where two of these streets cross. The preliminary work, which is to move bicycle hire statiosn and loading and unloading areas for delivery lorries, will be launched during the second half of July. The works as such will start in the second half of August, with an expected duration of eight and a half months, which should allow the City Council to complete them before the next local elections.