News: Santos Cerdán on the Senate Committee of Inquiry, the new president of the BBK Foundation and the completion of the Guggenheim Urdaibai project
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
Today, 17 December 2025, the main headlines in the media are as follows:
- Santos Cerdán on the Senate Committee of Inquiry: The former PSOE Secretary of Organization, Santos Cerdán, has been summoned to explain to the Senate Committee of Inquiry.
- New President of the BBK Foundation: The BBK Appointment Commission has proposed the former General Deputy of Bizkaia Unai Rementeria to preside over the foundation, to replace Xabier Sagredo.
- Guggenheim Urdaibai: The Guggenheim Urdaibai project has been definitively rejected by the Guggenheim Museum Board by unanimous vote at its meeting this Tuesday afternoon in Bilbao.
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Santos Cerdán, former PSOE Secretary of Organization and judicially investigated, will attend the Senate Committee of Inquiry today: he has the right to answer questions or not.
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EH Bildu's spokesman in the Basque Parliament has called for lessons to be learned for the future and for us to stop governing in a 'verticalist' way.
The Joint Transfer Commission shall meet on 29 December for the transfer of five matters
The subjects are: maritime rescue, Barakaldo machinery verification centre, school insurance, non-contributory social security benefits and unemployment benefits. The other transfers, until the completion of the ten transfers that the Basque Government transferred to the State in October, will continue to be negotiated until the end of the year, which was set for the implementation of the Statute.
"There have been outbreaks of intolerance in the Basque Country: painting, persecution... They're not sporadic, they're connected to a strategy. "
The lehendakari and president of the eAtlantic Foundation, Iñigo Urkullu, spoke in an interview on "Boulevard" of Radio Euskadi about the possibility of a new outbreak of violence in the Basque Country.
The Ministry of the Interior has dismissed the Chief of Police of Lleida after learning of his conviction for sexual harassment in San Sebastian
At the time when the Commissioner was Chief Inspector in Donostia-San Sebastián, he was running a Police Intervention Unit (IPU) and, as the Gipuzkoa High Court found proven and confirmed by the Supreme Court, "from the moment he began to work," the victim, an officer under his command, began to be asked to "have sex with him."
"Immobility is not an option," Sintre warned Sanchez, who has again asked for changes
Ernest Urtasun has pointed out that this is a "very serious" moment in the legislature in the face of alleged corruption cases affecting the PSOE and allegations of sexual harassment of socialist leaders.
Sánchez will meet with Junpoettering (ERC) at the beginning of the year to discuss the continuity of the legislature
As for Junts, Pedro Sánchez has acknowledged that "the relationship is broken" with the Catalan party, but has expressed his "absolute will" to comply with the agreements.
Sanchez has reaffirmed his "total commitment to feminism" and his "firmness" against corruption
The President of the Spanish Government has appeared in Moncloa to take stock of the year, but first he has spoken about his position on cases of sexual harassment and alleged corruption that have shaken the party.
Urkullu says the situation of the Spanish Government is "unsustainable"
During his speech at the "Forum Europa. Tribuna Euskadi" programme, the President of the eAtlantic Foundation also analysed the Basque political situation and played down the "discrepancies" between the PNV and the PSE as parties capable of agreeing on "stability".