Thursday, 27 February 2025, 14:16
Catalan independence politicians have succeeded in persauding central government to agree to cancel 17.1 billion euros of regional government debt in Catalonia. The move comes as part of continuing efforts by the minority Socialist-led national government to shore up its parliamentary support with the votes of Catalan nationalist parties.
The agreement has been presented by the finance ministry as a cancellation of part of the debt across all Spanish regions – 83.2 million euros in total – in order to “clean up their accounts and improve their financial position and access to [lending] markets”.
However the opposition Partido Popular (PP), which controls most regional governments in…
