La entrada Open war between the Balearic Islands and Madrid for the veto to the ‘nautical Airbnb’: «We are covering the incompetence of the State». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>From the Conselleria del Mar y del Ciclo del Agua insists that the measure is necessary to ensure maritime safety, protect the Balearic coastline and strengthen the exercise of its own powers in the field of ports and nautical management.
According to Mallorca Diario, the general director of Ports and Maritime Transport, Antoni Mercant, has explained that the appeal has not surprised the Balearic Executive. «We were expecting this appeal. We had already been warned. What we do not understand is the State’s obsession with this regulation, now less than ever. «, he said.
Mercant criticized the fact that the Government has appealed specific aspects of the regulation, such as the obligatory indicative flag, the sale of tickets or the limitation of rentals to a maximum of three months, measures that, in the opinion of the Government, seek to curb a phenomenon that was growing outside the law and without sufficient controls.
From the Conselleria they emphasize that the regulation does not respond to an ideology or a crusade against the sector, but the attempt to bring order to a practice that had generated a direct impact on ports, coves and maritime coexistence.
«There was no real demand in the Balearics for this activity. We do not understand what benefit can have injecting more tourist boats in our sea. «Mercant pointed out, stressing that many of these vessels were operating without proper moorings or technical supervision.
The conflict has also acquired a political tinge. As the Government recalls, PSIB deputy Milana Herrera announced in July that there was an agreement with the Government to exempt the Balearic Islands from the state regulation. However, the presentation of the appeal denies this commitment.
«It is clear that this agreement was not as real as promised. It would be necessary to ask the PSIB what has happened so that now the State presents this resource. «Mercant said, regretting the «imbroglio between PSOE and PSIB» and the confusion generated.
The data provided by the Government itself cast doubt on the real impact of allowing this activity. According to Mercant, only three vessels in the entire Balearic Islands – two in Menorca and one in Mallorca – have requested the change to the temporary commercial list.
«With these numbers, the appeal is not understood from the general interest,» said the head of Ports, suggesting that behind the appeal there is more private pressure than public will.
Meanwhile, the Balearic Popular Party has openly accused the Government of acting at the dictate of business interests, pointing to platforms such as ListaSeptima.com as possible beneficiaries of an eventual liberalization of the sector.
Mercant has not ruled out this interpretation: «It seems that here is not defending the collective interest, but the particular benefit of those who want to do business with our coast,» he warned.
One of the strongest messages of the Govern has come when addressing the alleged conflict of competences. Mercant has denied that the autonomic limits are being exceeded and has launched a direct criticism to the central Government: «We are not invading competences of the State; we are covering its incompetences«.
According to him, the state maritime surveillance is focused on the control of small boats, drug trafficking and customs, so it does not have sufficient resources to control the phenomenon of tourist boat rentals.
«We act where the State does not,» he said.
Despite the forcefulness of the speech, the Government has made it clear that it will abide by the outcome of the judicial process if it is successful. «We will speak with the nautical table and we will apply the corresponding modifications«, Mercant has indicated.
However, he warned of the risk of opening the door to uncontrolled practices if the regulations are relaxed: «We don’t want people to come, do the season and leave their garbage behind. We are not looking to restrict, but to control».
La entrada Open war between the Balearic Islands and Madrid for the veto to the ‘nautical Airbnb’: «We are covering the incompetence of the State». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>La entrada War over ‘nautical Airbnb’ erupts in court se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The regulation approved by the Executive of Pedro Sanchez allows since the beginning of the year that owners of boats for private use can rent their boats for a maximum of three months a year for tourist purposes. The measure, announced in July 2025, has unleashed an institutional clash between the two administrations that is now being settled in court.
The Balearic Government responded with a express modification of the autonomous decree of nautical charter to block this to block this possibility, even when requesting a temporary change of use.
President Marga Prohens then defended that the State intends to «impose a model that ignores the reality of the island«, a reaction supported by municipalities, the Consell de Ibiza and the marine industry, which has come to describe the state rule as «a time bomb« by the expected increase in uncontrolled activity.
For his part, the general director of Maritime Transport, Antoni Mercant, has warned that the owners of recreational boats that join the tourist rental could lose their moorings in the could lose their moorings in the ports of direct management, as in the case of Sant Antoni, and has proposed to rediscuss fees with the awardees of indirect management.
In addition to the appeal filed by the central government, the Govern has confirmed the existence of a second lawsuit filed by listaséptima.com, the main platform of the so-called ‘nautical Airbnb’ in Spain, which already operates based in the Islands.
«The Government Delegation notified us of a claim for invasion of competences; we answered it in due time and form, and now they have opted for the judicial route. There are no precautionary measures issued. If a judge orders to modify the decree, we will do it, but in the meantime we will defend the Balearic regulations, which have the support of the sector», Mercant explained to Menorca Info.
Mercant has denounced that the state regulatory change responds to pressures from private interests: «The Government surrenders to the interests of a real estate company in Madrid: listaséptima.com«, he said.
In his opinion, this legalization is an «unusual» precedent and encourages speculation on the maritime public domain: «There is no need to add more boats to the leasing market in the Balearic Islands,» he said.
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]]>La entrada Government extends transport discounts and guarantees free transport in the Balearic Islands in 2026 se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The main novelty of the decree is that the autonomous communities will no longer be obliged to contribute 20% of the financing for the State to subsidize another 20% in the regional and local discounts, thus guaranteeing a minimum of 20% financed directly by the State.
The new single season ticket will be priced at 60 euros, reduced to 30 euros for young people under 26 years of age, and will allow integrated travel on Cercanías, Media Distancia and state buses. According to Ministry data, public transport trips have already reached 420 million, which is 23% more than in 2022, before the implementation of the bonuses.
The minister defended that the subsidies have meant an average saving of 75% for users, citing the example of up to 5,000 euros per year on Avant services for recurring passengers.
The Royal Decree maintains the specific aids for territories with singularities, among them the Balearic and Canary Islands, where the free land public transport is extended. In the case of Asturias and Cantabria, the free service of the Cercanías services will also continue.
The measures will come into force on January 1, 2026, adapted to each territory and type of service, consolidating the bonus scheme in force during the second half of 2025.
Another difference with respect to the extension approved for 2025 is that the autonomous communities and local councils will now decide whether to contribute their additional 20% of the 40% discounts for regional and local subscriptions. The State guarantees its share unconditionally, which introduces greater budgetary flexibility for the territorial administrations.
These services continue to be free for children, with 50% discounts for young people up to 26 years of age and a minimum 20% discount for the rest of the subscriptions, without taking into account possible additional contributions from other administrations.
The Ministry of Transport has also announced the new ‘Pass Via’ for Avant trains, with progressive discounts ranging from 45% to 72% depending on the number of trips made, without the need for prior disbursement. In addition, a 10-trip voucher with a 50% discount, valid for 30 days, has been incorporated.
In Cercanías, a 40% discount will be applied as of the fifth trip through the Cronos system, which allows direct payment by bank card. On metric gauge Media Distancia services, round-trip discounts will increase from 7% to 20%, and a maximum price of 7 euros will be set for tickets purchased by people with disabilities.
Minister Óscar Puente has stressed that all these measures have been approved without the General State Budget, defending the capacity of the Executive to continue governing and approving investments. In the month of December alone, he pointed out, the Ministry of Transport has approved investments worth 3,822 million euros.
The royal decree is being processed independently, unlike the one approved for 2025, which will facilitate its validation in Congress and prevent it from lapsing, as happened last year.
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]]>La entrada Civil servants’ salary increase until 2028 agreed: what the increases will be like se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>This increase will benefit the 72,000 public workers in the Balearic Islands and will be distributed in a rise of 2.5% for this year; 1.5% for 2026, with an additional variable of 0.5% linked to the evolution of the CPI; 4.5% for 2027 and 2% for 2028, according to union sources.
This year’s increase of 2.5% will be paid in December with retroactive effect from January 1. For 2026, what has been agreed is a fixed wage increase of 1.5%, to which a further half a point would be added if inflation at the end of the year equals or exceeds the fixed 1.5% increase.
If so, this additional 0.5% would be paid in the first quarter of 2027 with retroactive effect. The 2026 increase is the only increase that will have a fixed and variable part, all the others will be exclusively fixed.
Although for the 2025-2028 period as a whole the agreed increase is 11%, the unions estimate that, due to the dragging effect of the different salary increases in each year, the cumulative salary increase that public employees will experience in those four years could reach 11.5%.
While UGT and CSIF have given their approval to the agreement, the CCOO has assured that, at this time, they do not support it. It is expected that the agreement -whether or not CCOO is in it- will be signed this Thursday.
«The Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service has reached an agreement in principle with two of the main trade union centers, UGT and CSIF, and is waiting for CCOO to also be part of it. This agreement represents a breakthrough for public servants and also guarantees the purchasing power of public employees until 2028,» stressed the Department headed by Óscar López in a note.
This pre-agreement has been reached after a new meeting, the second this week, of the Secretary of State for Public Function, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, with representatives of CCOO, UGT and CSIF, to address a new multi-year pact for salary improvements and working conditions for public employees.
The agreement also incorporates several improvements in the working conditions of civil servants, such as the elimination of the replacement rate, the streamlining of selection processes and the reinforcement of public service staff, among other aspects.
CSIF defends that the wage agreement reached is«the best possible in the current political circumstances» and means, on the one hand, ending the wage freeze that civil servants were suffering this year and the recovery of 2.9% of the purchasing power that the group had lost.
«CSIF subscribes to this agreement as a matter of responsibility and commitment to public employees. We have achieved the best possible agreement taking into account the difficulties the country is going through, the political instability, the budget blockade and the economic limitations of the European Union and NATO for defense spending,» says the union presided by Miguel Borra.
The parties have agreed to set up a monitoring committee to ensure compliance with the agreed measures within a maximum period of 15 days from the signing of the agreement. Thus, CSIF has stressed that the agreement «is not a blank check» and that it will ensure compliance «in time and form», reserving «all measures to ensure its effective implementation».
The general secretary of UGT Public Services, Isabel Araque, said after Wednesday’s meeting, that it is «a great agreement», with which «not only public employees win», but also that » the quality of the public sector wins, the citizens win and the country in general wins».
Araque stressed that the salary increase agreed with the Ministry, 11.5% if salary slippages are taken into account, guarantees purchasing power and around 2.9% recovery of the purchasing power lost by civil servants.
Thus, in addition to salary improvements, UGT and CSIF have explained that the agreement with the Government includes the elimination of the current rate of replacement of vacancies to favor the reinforcement of the staff in the areas most in need and reduce the hiring of temporary personnel; the reduction of the deadlines for the selective processes in the public employment offers so that their final resolution does not exceed one year, and the extension and improvement of both internal promotion and mobility.
Likewise, it has been agreed to adapt the job classification, adapting it to the actual functions, taking into account the experience and the qualifying training requirements, and to promote exclusive and differentiated processes of internal promotion of selective courses, strengthening merit-based competitions through the establishment of the open and permanent competition.
The text of the agreement also includes the revision and increase, throughout 2026, of the residence and insularity complements and of the compensations for reasons of service, eliminating inequalities among public employees; the reinforcement of the public attention staff; the updating of leaves and improvements in conciliation matters; the reinforcement of occupational health protection, with psychological support measures and measures against aggressions; salary updates for external labor personnel; improvements in the area of retirement, and the reinforcement of the health quality of the Mutualismo Administrativo (Muface, Mugeju and Isfas).
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]]>La entrada Government declares catastrophic zone for storms in Ibiza and Formentera se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The official note of the Ministry of the Interior details, among other incidents, the floods of September 30 in Ibiza and Formentera, when the AEMET activated the red warning for extreme risk and up to 236 liters per square meter were registered, with flooded streets and houses and road closures in different parts of the Pitiusas.
Interior recalls that, in addition to this episode, between October 9 and 13 the DANA Alice kept under red and orange warnings several areas of the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands, with very heavy rains, storms, floods and traffic cuts, which forced an intense intervention of the emergency services in the community.
In the case of Ibiza, these storms are added to other episodes of «heavy rains» and «adverse weather events» that the note itself places in September and October in the whole archipelago, including Ibiza and Formentera again in the risk warnings. This concatenation of incidents motivated the Consell d’Eivissa and different town councils to insist on the need for state reinforcements, in parallel to the autonomic measures already announced, such as the 5 million euros of aid from the Govern to alleviate the damages caused by the storms Ex Gabrielle and Alice or the emergency works for 1.78 million euros to repair the riverbeds in Ibiza.
The agreement of the Council of Ministers includes a detailed list of events that are considered «areas seriously affected by a civil protection emergency». This list includes, among others, the following events linked to the Pitiusas:
Forest fire in Mal Pas (Formentera), reported on September 23, expressly included as one of the fires justifying the activation of aid.
Floods in Ibiza, reported on September 30, after the episode of torrential rains that collapsed several points of the island.
Floods in Formentera, also on September 30, affecting roads, houses and services.
Adverse weather phenomenon in Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera, on October 10, in the middle of DANA Alice, with new incidents and emergency actions.
With this explicit reference, the Government formally recognizes that Ibiza and Formentera have suffered personal damages, in infrastructures and in public and private goods of sufficient entity to activate the intervention of the General State Administration, «based on the principle of inter-territorial solidarity and in a subsidiary manner», according to Interior.
The declaration allows the victims of these episodes in Ibiza and Formentera to benefit from the aid catalog of the Ministry of the Interior for personal damages, homes and belongings, as well as for industrial, commercial and service establishments and for those who provided material or personal means during the emergencies.
In addition, the agreement enables other ministries to implement complementary measures, including:
Tax benefits through the Ministry of Finance.
Labor and Social Security measures through the Ministries of Labor and Social Economy and Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
Aid to local corporations from the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
Subsidies for damage to agricultural, livestock, forestry and aquaculture production managed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
The other ministerial departments may, within the scope of their competences, declare a special action zone and process emergency works to repair damaged public infrastructures in the territories recognized as affected, which opens the door to specific actions in the road, hydraulic and urban network of the Pitiusas.
The state declaration comes after political leaders in Ibiza have been denouncing for weeks that the central government had not yet activated specific aid, despite the magnitude of the damage caused by the floods in late September, as this newspaper recently reported when echoing the criticism of the PP in the Senate for the lack of state response.
In parallel, there have been subsequent episodes of rain, new floods and the need for emergency works to restore normality in garages, roads and urban areas affected in Ibiza and Formentera. It has been an autumn marked by the repetition of storms and concern among neighbors and merchants.
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]]>La entrada Civil servants’ pay rise: when it will take effect and why 2026 could be key se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The 11% wage increase offered by the Government would be fixed, that is, it would not have variable components as in the previous agreement, which, according to CCOO, could bring the total wage increase to 11.45% between 2025 and 2028 with the sliding of the wage tables.
According to CCOO, the main stumbling block to the agreement is the percentage wage increase that the Executive offers for this year 2025 (with retroactive effect from January) and for 2026, which would be capped at 4% for both years, something that this union considers«insufficient«.
«CCOO will continue in the negotiation out of responsibility and because it is confident that there is room to achieve a meeting point, although no scenario is ruled out if the immobility on the part of the Government persists, such as resuming mobilizations and calling a strike throughout the public sector,» the union said in a statement.
The parties will meet again next Wednesday at 6 p.m. for further negotiations.
For its part, CSIF has stated that it will consult with the union’s bodies on the content of what has been negotiated with the Civil Service, although it considers that the Ministry’s proposal is«improvable in many aspects».
«Our organization continues to negotiate for a possible agreement to improve the working conditions of all public employees, who have almost a year with their salary frozen. CSIF with its contributions is improving the text and we will negotiate until the last minute to achieve the best possible agreement,» stressed the union of Miguel Borra.
In this sense, according to CSIF, the Ministry of Óscar López has accepted «fundamental» issues for the union, such as the elimination of the vacancy replacement rate; improvements in internal promotion; raising the amounts for insularity and for reasons of service (food and lodging), «which had not been updated for two decades», and improving health care in Muface.
«From CSIF, we value these aspects and will analyze the agreement as a whole. We believe that with political will we can reach an agreement to end a situation of neglect and precariousness of our public employees, which has been entrenched for too long, both in terms of wages and working conditions,» defends CSIF.
For its part, UGT Public Services already endorsed last Thursday the 11% salary proposal presented by the Ministry, after raising by one point the initial offer of a 10% increase until 2028 that it made to the unions and which they all rejected.
The secretary general of UGT Public Services, Isabel Araque, indicated after today’s meeting that, following the modifications introduced by the Public Function, the trade union organizations have made assessments and contributions.
Among them, the possibility of moving a half-point wage increase from 2027 to 2026, i.e. from a 5% wage increase to 4.5% in 2027 to increase by half a point that of 2026, to which the government has refused.
Araque has stressed that the Department headed by Óscar López maintains the «ceiling» wage increase of 11% for the four years and 4% for 2025 and 2026 and, despite the progress, there are «bangs» pending in the negotiation, for which they have been convened for next Wednesday.
Monday’s marathon meeting, which lasted more than five hours, was chaired by the Secretary of State for Civil Service, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, and is part of the negotiations initiated by the Ministry with CCOO, UGT and CSIF to address a multi-year framework with salary and labor improvements for the more than three million public employees.
This same Monday, the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has stated that the 11% salary increase for civil servants in the period 2025-2028 that has been offered to the unions has been made taking into account the evolution of inflation for this year and the following three years so that the collective does not lose purchasing power.
«The Government is coherent. The Government has always practiced social dialogue, it has always reached agreements with the unions,» said López in statements to Antena 3 reported by Europa Press.
«We are talking about civil servants not losing purchasing power, we are talking about inflation for these four years,» the minister stressed.
The last salary agreement between the Government and the unions was in force between 2022-2024, and provided for salary increases with a fixed and variable part. This pact made it possible to raise civil servants’ salaries in this period by around 10% (when it was signed, in the fall of 2022, inflation was then at 10%), which implied an expenditure of close to 13,000 million euros.
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]]>La entrada The central government’s provocative response to Ibiza’s claim for the catastrophe zone: «Coming soon». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The provocative response has been given during the control session in the Senate. «They continue to leave people behind and many families and professionals cannot recover normality. What are they waiting for?«, Jerez has asked Minister Grande-Marlaska.
The senator criticized that the minister, during all this time, «has not been able» to propose to the Council of Ministers the declaration of Ibiza as an area affected by an emergency.
This situation, in his opinion, is«very serious» for three reasons. Firstly, he explained, because the Law of the National Civil Protection System has a clear mandate and it is the Government that has the obligation to promote this declaration and to articulate the aid.
Secondly, according to Jerez, «because there is an equally important moral obligation, that these aids should not arrive when the business has already closed and the self-employed has handed over the key, but should do so when they can save businesses, jobs and life projects».
The central government did not advance dates or amounts to address the declaration of Ibiza’s catastrophic zone, after the two storms: the ex-Gabrielle squall and the dana Alice.
«Of course, this government is quicker than the autonomous government and I will put one thing on record for you: I am sure that the aid from the Ministry of the Interior and from all the ministries of Spain will arrive before those 5 million that, as you have said, have been committed. What we do not know is when they will arrive», said the Minister of the Interior in the Senate.
In addition, Grande-Marlaska said that it is something that has just happened,» despite the fact that almost two months have passed.
«In the near future, the government will declare an area severely affected by a civil protection emergency,» he promised without giving too much certainty.
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]]>La entrada The Balearic Islands will receive an unprecedented volume of financing in 2026 se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>According to the documentation sent to the autonomous regions, the total amount to be received by the Balearic Islands and the rest of the communities when adding the 2024 liquidation amounts to 4,206 million, 4.6% more than in 2025. The Executive maintains that the reinforcement will allow to attend to essential services, although the community still drags pending debates on the financing system and the distribution between territories.
The regional deficit path for the period 2026-2028, set at -0.1%, opens the door for the Balearic Islands to have an additional 49.1 million in 2026, an amount that would grow to 53.2 million in 2028. This is a margin conditioned to the fulfillment of the fiscal objectives and the behavior of revenues.
Although the Treasury stresses that the territories will not have to apply extra adjustments once the target is reached, the real impact will depend on how spending, inflation and the Govern’s budgetary commitments evolve.
The Ministry recalls that in recent years the payments on account were maintained even in times of economic downturn and that during the pandemic extraordinary transfers to the autonomous regions were approved. The update for 2026 improves the previous forecast, but keeps open the debate on a reform of the system, a matter demanded by the Balearic Islands on several occasions due to its status as a contributor community.
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]]>La entrada The «Sea Police» of Ibiza and Formentera paralyzed by a bureaucratic process se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The initiative included 22 new boats to reinforce the control of nautical activity on beaches and coves of the archipelago. Two of these launches are destined for Ibiza and Formentera, as advanced by La Voz de Ibiza.
However, the control service is not yet operational. From the Conselleria del Mar y Ciclo del Agua del Govern Balear, have confirmed that the implementation of the service is still pending administrative clearance by the Captaincy, although they assure that the registration procedures, insurance, equipment and technical reviews have been completed progressively since the arrival of the boats, as advanced by Última Hora.
In spite of this situation, the same sources of the Autonomous Executive emphasize that the surveillance of the coastline has not stopped, since inspection tasks have continued to be carried out using drones and other vessels owned by the Administration, in addition to maintaining coordination with the other administrations involved.
As La Voz de Ibiza advanced last June, the maritime surveillance corps contemplates 22 vessels acquired by Ports IB. Of these, 12 small ones will be used for management within the ports, while 10 larger ones will operate on the coast and along the coastline.
According to the general director of Ports and Maritime Transport, Antoni Mercant, two of these boats will work in Ibiza and Formentera, another two in Menorca and six in Mallorca.
The fleet will mainly monitor the buoy fields and nautical charter, with the ability to initiate proceedings when it detects activities without the required documentation. Although some have described it as a «police of the sea», Mercant clarified that it is a service with a preventive and educational function, rather than a sanctioning one.
The boats will be owned by Ports IB, but will be managed by the public company Tragsa, and may embark officials from different administrations: from Civil Guard and local police to maritime transport or coastal inspectors.
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]]>La entrada New battle front between the Government and the Balearic Islands: the threat of less aid if it does not declare a stressed area se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>In this context, the Balearic Islands opposes this requirement and has presented allegations to the draft of the 2026-2030 Housing Plan, which states that the communities that refuse to apply these ceilings will receive 20% less funding.
The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, has passed this proposal on to the regional governments, which will hold a meeting in the next few days to discuss the content of the plan.
The Govern considers that the measure violates its autonomy and competences in housing matters, as well as criticizing that it does not respect the territorial specificity of the islands.
«This model undermines the competences of the community and does not take into account the particularities of the Balearic market,» argue the regional executive in the allegations presented, as published this morning by Última Hora.
The new state plan envisages a total investment of up to 7 billion euros for the period 2026-2030, but introduces a substantial change with respect to the current plans: the state will go from financing 70% to 60% of the total cost, while the communities will have to increase their contribution from 30% to 40%.
This adjustment, added to the penalty for not declaring stressed areas, could leave the Balearic Islands with a much lower level of financing than in previous stages.
The Government has also challenged this change, understanding that it is detrimental to communities such as the Balearic Islands, with a particularly stressed real estate market and limited availability of land.
Despite having one of the highest rental prices in Spain -17 euros per square meter- and housing exceeding 4,000 euros per square meter, the Balearic Islands has resisted declaring any area as stressed.
The regional government’s argument is that this measure does not guarantee an increase in supply, but could shift part of the market to seasonal rentals.
In cities such as Barcelona, where the price cap has been applied, rents have fallen by around 4%, but the available supply in the residential market has also been reduced. This collateral effect is what the Government wants to avoid, prioritizing other formulas to increase the public housing stock and control real estate pressure.
The Balearic Islands shares with Madrid the leadership in housing prices in Spain, both in the purchase and rental market. According to data from the Association of Registrars, the average mortgage in the islands currently stands at 1,408 euros per month, well above the state average, which barely exceeds 786 euros.
The Balearic Government is confident that the central government will reconsider its position and not penalize the communities that choose not to apply the figure of stressed area, especially given the lack of affordable housing and the high cost of living in island territories such as Ibiza, Mallorca and Formentera.
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]]>La entrada Marí Bosó accuses the Government of deceiving Ibizans: «They treat us as second division and lie to our faces». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>According to the popular deputy, this compensation does not represent any kind of public aid, but rather a return to policyholders of the funds they have been contributing through their insurance premiums over time.
«The Insurance Compensation Consortium is only indemnifying as if it were just another insurance. With the premiums they have paid over the years, they are compensating and covering the damages,» Marí Bosó told La Voz de Ibiza.
Marí Bosó explained that in order for the Spanish Government to be able to offer extraordinary aid to those affected, it is essential that the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Finance bring the declaration of catastrophe zone to the Council of Ministers.
«The government here has not processed anything. The Government here has not declared the catastrophic zone, which is what would enable it to be able to agree on aid,» he pointed out. «Because what is being paid now by the Insurance Compensation Consortium is not any aid,» he insisted.
«It is simply returning the money to the insured that they have been paying for many years. Therefore, the government is deceiving the Ibizans,» he blasted the administration of Pedro Sanchez.
The deputy denounced that the government’s response has been very different from that applied in other recent catastrophes: «40 days ago of the torrential rains. In the Dana of Valencia the catastrophic zone was agreed after six days. In this summer’s fires, the declaration of a catastrophic zone was also agreed practically ten days later. And here we are and nobody from the government has said anything«.
In this sense, Marí Bosó questioned the attitude of the Government and the Government delegate in the Balearic Islands.
«The government delegate has not been heard to say, ‘Yes, we are going to declare the catastrophe zone.’ No Socialist has been heard to say: ‘Yes, our government, Pedro Sánchez, is going to declare the catastrophe zone’,» he said.
The popular parliamentarian pointed out that the only administration that has committed aid so far has been the Balearic Government, presided by Marga Prohens, together with the Consell de Ibiza and the town councils.
«Here the only one who has committed money and aid is the Government of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, along with the Consell and municipalities. But the Government of Spain is still lacking,» he lamented.
In a message posted on social networks, Marí Bosó lashed out at the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, the PSOE and the senator for Ibiza and Formentera, Juanjo Ferrer,
«It is a shame. The socialists, Sánchez and the collaborationist senator of @EiFAlSenat (Juanjo Ferrer) treat us as second division and lie to our faces. The insurance compensation consortium is paid by you with your premiums and it is no help, they give you your money back,» he wrote on his account.
These criticisms follow statements by the Minister of Economy, Carlos Cuerpo, who this week informed the Senate that the Consortium has received 3,933 applications, of which 20% have been processed.
«We are reinforcing the technical teams and prioritizing the cases of the most affected homes and businesses,» assured the minister, who added that those affected in Ibiza «will not have to wait months» to be compensated.
Specifically, 1,200 applications have been received for damage to homes, 552 from businesses and some 1,500 for vehicles, in addition to others referring to industries and homeowners’ associations.
«In the 114 most complex cases, partial payments have already been advanced in order to avoid delays in economic coverage,» said Cuerpo, who also indicated that it is expected to have more than 80% of the files processed in the next quarter.
Following this, Marí Bosó stressed that the Insurance Compensation Consortium acts only in those cases in which the affected parties have taken out policies, and that in reality there is no direct state contribution to compensation.
«Because a part of the premiums of these other insurances is destined to finance this consortium, so that when a catastrophe occurs and it has to compensate damages, it has the funds to do so».
La entrada Marí Bosó accuses the Government of deceiving Ibizans: «They treat us as second division and lie to our faces». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
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]]>Therefore, the Executive is moving forward with a tender to track tourist rental portals such as Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo or Tripadvisor to detect illegal tourist rentals. As reported by elPeriódico.com, the Secretary of State for Tourism is finalizing the definitive formalization of the contract, while the contracting table has already proposed the award of the service to the company Mabrian Technologies. This specialized firm has beaten three other bidders with the best offer of about 40,000 euros per year plus VAT (the tender envisaged an estimate of almost 300,000 euros for three years of monitoring). In this way, it will be possible to carry out a systematic monitoring of the supply of tourist apartments in the main tourist destinations in the country, which will allow both the autonomous communities and the councils and municipalities to have updated information to accelerate the corresponding sanctions. The Consell de Ibiza has signed an agreement with the Booking platform to remove unregulated ads in collaboration with the Department of Tourism Management and Fight against Intrusiveness.
According to elPeriódico.com, the Government’s plans are to give full public access to the month-by-month evolution of the aggregate supply of tourist housing by autonomous communities and by provinces through the Dataestur system. This will make it possible to know the stock of tourist apartments by municipality and even by neighborhoods, through the Tourism Intelligence System. The tender establishes the improvement of «the measurement and monitoring capabilities of extreme phenomena of a disruptive nature that may affect the short and medium-term competitiveness of tourist destinations».
La entrada Company to track illegal tourist rentals on platforms se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>La entrada The Government contributes only 20% of the cost of free transportation and has not yet paid the 43 million for 2024. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The Councilor for Mobility, José Luis Mateo, has specified this Monday that the cost of free public transport in 2024 (intercity buses, subway and train) has amounted to about 70 million euros, of which 54 have been paid by the Govern and 43 by the State. In statements to the media, the minister criticized the fact that the central government has not yet paid these 43 million corresponding to 2024 and has no official notification that it will contribute the same amount in 2025. In Mateo’s opinion, the situation is«dramatic» because the year is almost over and the Ministry of Transport has not yet sent any information to the regional government about its «collaboration» in the free public transport, which is mostly paid by the autonomous community, he insisted. In the same sense, the president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, explained in a meeting with young students that the funds provided by the central government are not enough «in any way». Prohens complained that the announcement of the extension of the free transport to 2025 has only been known through the media, so the autonomous Executive is still waiting for official information from the Government.
La entrada The Government contributes only 20% of the cost of free transportation and has not yet paid the 43 million for 2024. se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>La entrada They approve the reduction of the working day: what does the Balearic Government think about this agreement? se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The signing of the pact, carried out by the Second Vice-President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, and union leaders, has been described as «a civilizing advance». Diaz stressed that the measure will directly benefit 12 million workers, especially those in precarious sectors, such as commerce, cleaning and care services.
Díaz stressed that this change is a step towards equality, guaranteeing similar rights for first and second category workers. «Today we write a new page in the labor conquests of our country,» he stated during the signing ceremony.
Despite the praise in Madrid, the Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economy, Finance and Innovation, Antoni Costa, expressed his opposition to the agreement. In a press conference, Costa assured that the measure «does not adapt to the productive fabric of the Balearic Islands», where the service sector represents 80% of the GDP and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) dominate the economic panorama. Costa emphasized that the imposition of mandatory regulations is problematic in a community with such specific characteristics as the Balearic Islands. He also questioned the exclusion of the employers’ association in the negotiations, describing it as a key lack of representation in an agreement of this magnitude.
The agreement also includes the implementation of a telematic time register that will allow the Labor Inspectorate to monitor working hours in real time. According to Diaz, this system will guarantee transparency and prevent abuses by companies. In addition, individualized sanctions will be established for those companies that do not comply with the regulations. The Balearic Vice President, however, warned that these mechanisms may be complex to implement on the islands, especially in sectors such as tourism and the hotel and catering industry, which require greater labor flexibility.
Despite his critical stance, Costa expressed his willingness to support a reduction of working hours as long as it is «flexible, agreed between employers and unions, and adapted to the productive sectors of the Balearic Islands». According to the minister, any change must consider the specific needs of the islands so as not to compromise their economic competitiveness.
La entrada They approve the reduction of the working day: what does the Balearic Government think about this agreement? se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>La entrada Balearic Islands ensures free public transport during 2025 se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.
]]>The decision to maintain this measure for the whole of next year follows an agreement between PSOE and Podemos, which also included the extension of the ban on evictions for vulnerable families.
Although initially it was considered to extend the aid only until mid-2025, finally it has been decided to apply it during the 12 months. According to the Government Delegation, this continuity reaffirms the support of the Executive to the islands, ensuring that Balearic residents can continue to enjoy public transport at no cost, regardless of the regional economic situation.
The delegate of the Government in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has taken the opportunity to highlight the importance of these aids and has urged the Balearic Government to assume its competences in matters of public transport. Rodriguez criticized the Popular Party, which currently leads the regional executive, for not taking measures to subsidize transport in the islands, and pointed out that it is the central government who is «relieving the economy of workers». On the other hand, Rodriguez has stressed that since 2018 the Ministry of Transport has multiplied by four times the aid destined for public transport in the Balearic Islands, which, according to him, evidences «the greatest effort in history» in this area. However, the measure has also generated debates about its long-term financial sustainability, and the Balearic Government is expected to participate more actively in the implementation of policies that reinforce sustainable mobility in the islands.
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