Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country
Torres has welcomed the agreements reached with the Basque Country and has stated that everyone 'respects the Spanish Constitution, the Gernika Statute and the legislation in force'
Minister Ángel Víctor Torres has described the meeting of the bilateral commission as "productive" and has highlighted the "great work" that has been done previously. He has also advanced that both administrations have opened up lines of negotiation to reach agreements in areas such as industry and energy, health or immigration in the future. e believes that a model of cooperation based on "agreement, institutional freedom and efficiency of governance" is being established.
There will be news: the Oscars, a meeting on airport management in the ACV in Madrid and municipal elections in Iparralde
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
Ubarretxena will be in Madrid tomorrow to advance the bilateral management of Basque airports
The purpose of the meeting is to ensure that airports do not lose the classification of general interest, but to create a bilateral organization to manage them.
Garmendia believes there will be agreement on airports, but rules out declassifying the Port of Passages
The Spanish Government delegate to the ACV, Marisol Garmendia, believes that "an agreement will be reached" on the creation of a bilateral agency for the management of Basque airports. She has expressed a different view regarding the Port of Passages and has ruled out removing the classification of general interest, since the removal of this classification would "degrade the port and endanger the 400 direct jobs it has".
Aitor Esteban has cooled down the possibility of reaching an agreement with EH Bildu and the PSE-EE on the new status
Thepresident of the PNV EBB, Aitor Esteban , has stated at the New Economy Forum breakfast that at the moment "there is no water in the pool." In any case, the leader jeltzale has stressed the willingness of PNV, EH Bildu and PSE-EE to continue negotiating.
Prales believes Sanchez's willingness to the Statute is "hopeful," but will not allow any delay
Imanol Pradales recalls that they have called for negotiations to be resumed "by accepting more resolute political guidelines, that is, that what has been agreed at the political level does not constantly encounter administrative and political obstacles and resistance, an attitude that, in addition to devaluing political action, has a direct impact on the choices of the Basque Country and on the quality of life of the Basque people", he says.
EH Bildu welcomes the new transfer agreement, but calls for a "peer-to-peer" relationship with the state
Pello Otxandiano welcomes "everything that increases the ability of the Basques to decide on issues that affect our daily lives and the well-being of our citizens."
These are the five powers that the Basque Government will assume this Friday
The spokeswoman for the Basque Government, Maria Ubarretxena, has announced that the central and Basque governments will sign on Friday the transfer to the Basque Country of five other competences of the 1979 Gernika Autonomy Statute, including unemployment benefits and non-contributory social security benefits.
The Basque Government has asked the Sanchez Government to be serious: 'We cannot continue with this dynamic'
Maria Ubarretxena, Counsellor for Governance, Digital Administration and Self-Government and spokesperson for the Basque Government, has recalled that there are still issues to be negotiated, but has stressed that they cannot always be working against the clock. "We ask for seriousness and another way to start negotiations," added Ubarretxena.
The Basque Government closes the transfer agreement in extremis
The spokeswoman for the Basque Government, Maria Ubarretxena, has confirmed that the meeting will take place tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. in Madrid, after two days of contacts with the Spanish Government.
Arantza Tapia: "The Spanish Government, whatever it may be, likes to conduct negotiations until the last minute of the last day."
Interviewed today on Radio Euskadi, the former councillor of the Basque Government has said that he hopes that the negotiations on transfers will continue and has assured us that this is not a matter of 'haste', since the Gernika Statute is an 'binding' organic law, which is already 45 years old.
Today will be news of the transfer meeting, the second day of the medical strike and the farmers' protests at the border
Today, January 15, 2026, the Government will decide whether the conditions for attending tomorrow's meeting of the Joint Transfer Commission are in place; the doctors in Osakidetza will have a second day of strike, after yesterday's, to demand their own status; and the farmers and farmers in Hego Euskal Herria will make a tractor march towards Biriatu.
Pradales and Ubarretxena will decide on Thursday whether the conditions for meeting the Joint Transfer Commission are met
The meeting with the Spanish Government is scheduled for Friday. The Lehendakari and Counsellor will first assess compliance with the "necessary guarantees" for the signing of the transfer. As EITB has been aware, there are "constant contacts to reach an agreement" and "progress" has been made.
Torres said the competition agreement could be concluded today
The Socialist Councillor has not hesitated. The day after tomorrow the Joint Transfer Commission will meet after the agreement has been concluded in the next few hours.
EH Bildu believes that when the debates are so publicized, behind them "there are partisan reasons and not the interests of the citizens"
Nerea Kortajarena, Member of Parliament of EH Bildu and Secretary of Programme, has stated in Euskadi Irratia that "at this point it is clear that the most powerful instrument we need to guarantee the well-being and rights of citizens would be a new political status".
The Basque Government warns that the transfer committee is "in the air" because the issues remain "open"
That is why the spokeswoman and adviser for Governance, Digital Administration and Self-Government, Maria Ubarretxena, has asked the Spanish Government to be serious and to respect the institutional agreements signed in July between the two governments, and has indicated that the Basque Government is prepared to work 'until the last moment' and to put in place the 'hours necessary' to reach an agreement.
Outstanding transfers: what are they? What are the negotiations?
In addition to the five powers that should be exercised in the course of these weeks, the CSC has 15 other transfers recognised by the Statute of Autonomy. In order not to get lost in the confusion of competences, this is the updated list of outstanding transfers.
Esteban warns that the PNV will not "stand idly by" unless transfers are closed
"We will try to be optimistic, but we will not stand idly by," insisted Esteban, who stressed that if the transfers are not closed on Friday, the PNV's position on the Spanish Government "will not be the same." "The Spanish Government will immediately realize this," said the leader jeltzale.
Summary believes that the lack of an agreement on jurisdiction this week "is not so worrying"
Congressman Lander Martinez has valued "all the work" done between the two governments, which the PNV hopes to recognize. "I don't think the situation is serious enough to jeopardize a progressive coalition government, knowing what will come next," he said.
Strain on the transfer of powers: "I am very optimistic; I hope that at the next meeting of the Joint Commission these powers will be signed"
In an interview given to journalist Iñaki Guridi in the "Faktoria" programme of Euskadi Irratia , PSE-EE Secretary General Eneko Anduezahas been "very calm" about the controversy over the transfer of five competences between the Basque Government and the Spanish Government and has assured him that he has "no doubt that things will go well."