At yesterday's meeting between Vice President Montero and the finance ministers of all the autonomous communities, we heard yet another of those phrases that will go down in the anthology of what used to be called anti-Catalanism and is now more accurately described as Catalanophobia. The honor belongs to the finance minister of Andalusia, Carolina España:

"Caviar for Catalans and a set menu for the rest of Spain." PP councilors appeared indignant outside the Ministry of Finance, railing against the proposed new financing model which, they claim, only grants "privileges" to Catalans. parade of statements This shows that it will not be easy for the Spanish government to implement the new model in which, according to regional PP leaders, Oriol Junqueras decides where the resources of the people of Murcia, Extremadura, Madrid, Andalusia, etc., go. However, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has reserved a point for the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council: has offered to the communities that, if they find the new financing model so unfair (even though they all gain slightly more than now), they can opt out and remain under the current system. That is, it will be voluntary. Although this was also the case in 2009, Montero's statement this Wednesday is a challenge to the PP.