The Basque Parliament
The Ombudsman asks the Department of Safety and Security why it reports the origin of the detainees
The Security Adviser, Bingen Zupiria, explained that it had been decided to change the approach due to the "terrible pressure" being exerted by the right-wing parties in the Basque Parliament on the origin of the detainees.
The Basque Government appoints Edurne Egaña as adviser the day after she is dismissed as director of EKP
Egaña has been involved in several lawsuits over alleged irregularities in the San Sebastian port mooring award process. The People's Party has advanced that it will take the appointment to the Basque Parliament and demand political responsibility.
Floral offering in the Basque Parliament to celebrate Memory Day
Members of the PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Sintre have made a floral offering to the sculpture "Midnight Compass" dedicated to the victims, in which PP and Vox have not participated because this type of action "confuses" the different types of victims and violence.
There will be news: memory day, COP30 summit in Brazil and campaign presentation on 25 November
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The PNV and the PSE-EE call for "realistic and viable" proposals to agree on budgets "without changing models"
For their part, EH Bildu and Sintre have called for "consistency" because "you cannot negotiate with everyone at the same time" and the PP has proposed "improvements", especially in Health and Safety.
According to the Basque Government, 35% of Basque public institutions do not "really" meet the level of accreditation in Basque
The First Vice-President and Counsellor for Culture and Linguistic Policy, Ibone Bengoetxea, has reported that in 35% of the Basque institutions "the Basque language accreditation index has not been really verified". In response to the PP's complaint about "discrimination against Spanish speakers", Bengoetxea has stated that the fact that the popular are not "at all concerned" with this 35% "reflects" what the party is like.
Eusko Jaurlaritza datorren astean hasiko da aurrekontuak negoziatzen
Alderi guztiekin hitz egingo du Jaurlaritzak, Voxekin ezik.
News: the launch of the San Juan whaler, the situation of the Basque Country's anglers and the control session in the Basque Parliament
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The Department of Education has presented a budget of 3,346 million, highlighting staff and inclusion programmes
Pérez Iglesias highlights the "firm commitment" of the Basque Government to the UPV
The Vice-Minister for Science, Universities and Innovation has stressed that the regular contribution of the Basque Government to the UPV/EHU in 2026 is EUR 339 million, 6.9% more than this year, and has even explained that the amount allocated to the public university is the highest in its history.
Trade unions will demonstrate in Bilbao on the 12th "for the minimum wage"
The Basque Government opposed the People's Legislative Initiative, which was presented in Parliament in the summer. The trade unions consider the debate to be a 'democratic minimum' and will therefore protest to the headquarters of the Basque Government, the PNV and the PSE-EE.
It will be news: Mazon's decision, the trial against the Attorney General of the State and the presentation of the ACV Budgets, by department
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The counselors will begin this Monday to present the budgets of their departments to Parliament
According to the 2026 budget schedule, the plenary of the amendments to the whole will be held on 9 December and the plenary will debate the opinion drawn up by the Committee on Finance and Budgets on 23 December.
The PNV applauds the budget increase in housing, safety and health, and EH Bildu criticizes the lack of willingness to negotiate
The PSE-EE argues that health and education are "saturated," and the PP denounces the tax hike.
Mikel Mancisidor will be the new Ombudsman after PNV and PSE-EE reach an agreement with the PP
Perez Iglesias replies to the PP that the cleaning of campus paintings is the responsibility of the UPV
PP MP Muriel Larrea has called on the Basque Government to "immediately" clean up the painted on the UPV/EHU campuses, in his speeches, because they are becoming "suffocating" spaces for "those who do not share the ideas of the left abertzale."
The PSE-EE has joined EH Bildu and Suma in calling for "institutional consensus" for the Arana Harer Center
The three left-wing parties will take advantage of their majority in the Chamber of Vitoria-Gasteiz to push through the agreed text on the reception centre, in which they will ask the Spanish Government to initiate a "constructive dialogue" on the subject. In a short time, it will be the second time that PNV and PSE-EE have disagreed: at the beginning of October, the Socialists did not support the PNV proposal to shield the Basque Country.
EH Bildu denounces that the Government has not responded to its budget proposals
The spokesman, Pello Otxandiano, recalled on social media statements made in June by Counsellor D'Anjou and said he had not fulfilled his "commitment."
Vitoria-Gasteiz riots have sparked debate in the Basque Parliament
The lehendakari has defended the action of the Ertzaintza on 12 October on several streets in the centre of the Alavesa capital, where radical groups burned containers and caused extensive material damage following a rally called by the Spanish Falange.
PNV and PSE-EE propose Mikel Mancisidor as Ombudsman
His professional career is linked to the defence of human rights and democratic governance, and he has a broad international track record.