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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - PP]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Government opens up to limiting the purchase of homes to non-residents if Brussels endorses it]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-government-opens-up-to-limiting-the-purchase-of-homes-to-non-residents-if-brussels-endorses-it_1_5847148.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/380331cc-70e5-425c-a316-6966465e5640_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Government will "evaluate" the <a href="https://www.ara.cat/economia/immobiliari/brussel-proposa-limitar-lloguers-turistics-compra-segones-residencies_1_5843648.html" target="_blank">affordable housing bill</a> that the European Commission put forward this week. The first vice president, Antoni Costa, has assured that they will even consider limiting the purchase of second homes by non-residents if Brussels endorses it. "Prohibiting purchases by non-residents is not a feasible measure today, and that is why the European Commission is opening the door to legislation that gives this option to public administrations," he explained: "We are willing to analyze it if the door is opened". </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:12:53 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The president of the Government, Marga Prohens, next to the vice-president Antoni Costa.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Executive will "evaluate" the proposal for a law that this week the European Commission has made]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The declassified documents from the Interior do not warn of a "high risk" of migrant arrivals in the Balearic Islands]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-declassified-documents-from-the-interior-do-not-warn-of-high-risk-of-migrant-arrivals-in-the-balearic-islands_1_5846740.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/25fdcf93-3d3c-4f5a-af0c-f032fe978de7_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The declassification of documents related to the Ceuta crisis by the Ministry of the Interior contains no report warning of a "high risk" of migrant arrivals in the Balearic Islands. Nevertheless, the PP has registered a written request in the Lower House demanding more data, and the Director General of Immigration, Manuel Pavón, has accused <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-government-accuses-sanchez-of-hiding-information-about-migrant-arrivals-in-the-balearic-islands-they-declassify-what-interests-them_1_5845587.html" target="_blank">members of the Spanish government of "declassifying what interests them"</a>. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:36:20 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Small boats accumulated in Son Tous, Mallorca.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Government questions that the Spanish executive has delivered all the information about the territory]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PP and Vox block the Government from giving explanations about the Pact for sustainability]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/pp-and-vox-block-the-government-from-giving-explanations-about-the-pact-for-sustainability_1_5845941.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4ed322ed-65c7-4121-b700-c4028749755c_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Parliament rejected this Thursday, with the votes of the PP and Vox, that the Director General of Social Dialogue of the Government, José Antonio Caldés, appear before the Chamber to explain the current status of the Pact for Sustainability.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:38:47 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Last meeting of the Pact for Sustainability]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The PSIB, MÉS per Mallorca and Més per Menorca demand the appearance of the general director of Social Dialogue, but the majority of the PP and Vox rejects it]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Government accuses Sánchez of hiding information about migrant arrivals in the Balearic Islands: "They declassify what interests them"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-government-accuses-sanchez-of-hiding-information-about-migrant-arrivals-in-the-balearic-islands-they-declassify-what-interests-them_1_5845587.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/46d3bfb9-fe60-4777-b880-251f3c5bd703_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The declassification of official documents that the Ministry of the Interior carried out this Wednesday does not satisfy the Government of Marga Prohens, which this Thursday has returned to <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-accuses-sanchez-of-hiding-the-risk-of-migrant-arrivals-in-the-islands-we-are-talking-about-our-security_1_5839922.html" target="_blank">accuse the Spanish government of "hiding" information</a>. "They declassify what interests them," said the director general of immigration, Manuel Pavón, in statements to the media. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:16:33 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Manuel Pavón, Director General of Immigration and Development Cooperation]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Director General of Immigration demands information and "institutional loyalty" from the Spanish government]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Galmés vindicates the limitation of vehicles in Mallorca at the Parliament: "Let us recover the trust of the citizens"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/galmes-vindicates-the-limitation-of-vehicles-in-mallorca-at-the-parliament-let-us-recover-the-trust-of-the-citizens_1_5844504.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4bb13614-5f59-41e3-ab77-1538f2e6eadc_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The president of the Council of Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, appeared this Tuesday at the Parliament plenary session to defend the law to <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-pp-wants-to-apply-the-vehicle-limitation-in-mallorca-next-season_1_5843554.html" target="_blank">limit the entry of vehicles to Mallorca</a>. "We are recovering the trust of citizens, tired of years of unfulfilled promises," he claimed from the rostrum. This regulation, which begins its processing in Parliament today, starts without any party against it. All parties except Vox, which abstained, have voted in favor of its consideration. But for it to reach the Chamber, Galmés had to overcome some obstacles. In the final year of the legislature, the approval of this initiative is now his main electoral card. Therefore, he has asked for it to be approved "as quickly as possible" so that it comes into force "next season".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:26:45 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Llorenç Galmés, this Tuesday at the Parliament plenary session.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The initiative begins the parliamentary processing with no formation against it]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens attacks the PSIB over the controversy with Aena: "They see our airports as a cash register"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-attacks-the-psib-for-the-controversy-with-aena-they-see-our-airports-as-cash-register_1_5844337.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/56e7961b-90d8-4f59-9e9f-8985deb11943_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>President Marga Prohens has sought a direct confrontation with the PSIB in the first plenary session of the political year. During the control session for the Executive, she dodged criticism from the left regarding her tourism containment policies. Thus, she dug into the Spanish government's change of criteria regarding the Balearic law on airport co-management and the complaints from Aena, which has warned that<a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/business/aena-says-that-the-balearic-airport-co-management-law-is-unconstitutional-and-threatens-to-act-if-it-is-approved_1_5844066.html" target="_blank"> it will try to stop it if it is approved in the Congress of Deputies</a>. "They see our airports as a cash register," she retorted.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:32:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens this morning at the Parliament]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president assures that the PP would have joined forces with Sumar to lift the veto on the processing of the co-management law]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bolaños accepts that the co-management of airports be debated: who has convinced him?]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/bolanos-accepts-that-the-co-management-of-airports-be-debated-who-has-convinced-him_1_5844098.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/0404b9cb-be5a-4d77-b556-48182d547dae_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Over the weekend, "highest-level" calls were made to defend the bill for the airport co-management of the Islands. Conversations that, according to sources familiar with the negotiations, have succeeded in getting the Spanish government to withdraw its veto on the regulation being debated in the Congress of Deputies. But who picked up the phone? The sovereignists of MÉS or Francina Armengol? On this, there are contradictory versions.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:20:32 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Minister of Presidency, Félix Bolaños.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[PSOE and MÉS dispute the merit regarding the change of criteria of the Spanish government, which has lifted the veto on the processing of the law]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PP wants to apply the vehicle limitation in Mallorca next season]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-pp-wants-to-apply-the-vehicle-limitation-in-mallorca-next-season_1_5843554.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/58293864-578f-42ae-bee3-031aa38264e8_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PP expects that the law to limit the entry of vehicles to Mallorca will be definitively approved in Parliament between October and November and that it will come into force during the next tourist season. This was announced this Tuesday by the spokesperson for the Popular Party in the Chamber, Sebastià Sagreras, in a press conference prior to this Wednesday's plenary session, in which the consideration of the legislative initiative will be debated. Furthermore, Sagreras reproached the opposition for demanding "degrowth" measures, while not having taken "any" during the two previous legislatures, when, as he stated, "illegal tourist rentals proliferated." The Popular leader announced that <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/society/the-council-of-mallorca-approves-the-limitation-of-cars-the-island_1_5759349.html" target="_blank">the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés</a>, will defend the proposal in Parliament.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:43:12 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The entrance to Palma, congested.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The spokesperson for the Populars in the Parliament, Sebastià Sagreras, foresees that the law will be definitively approved between October and November and will enter into force in the summer of 2027]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crisis in Ceuta: the PP demands that the Spanish government delegate appear before Parliament]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/crisis-in-ceuta-the-pp-demands-that-the-spanish-government-delegate-appear-before-parliament_1_5842736.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ab5ec781-94ef-4a36-9f7c-d994470994c0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>President Marga Prohens insisted this Monday on demanding that the Spanish government provide the report on the risk of migrant arrivals to the Peninsula and the Islands that Pedro Sánchez mentioned in Congress. After the party's parliamentary days, the PP registered a request for the appearance of the Spanish government delegate in the Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, to explain what he knows about this situation.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:32:20 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Prohens demands that Sánchez provide the report on the risk of migrant arrivals that he mentioned in Congress]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Demonstrating with neo-Nazis]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/demonstrating-with-neo-nazis_129_5842268.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>A graphic example of what the expression ‘cringe’ means is to see your own institutional representatives walking the streets alongside far-right and neo-Nazi groups, in a demonstration where racist and hateful shouts are uttered, and where the preferred chant includes the expression ‘son of a bitch’, in this case directed at the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez. The President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, participated in a demonstration with these characteristics, and immediately afterwards she posted a funny tweet, because it explained another demonstration that had not happened. In the original version, President Prohens tweeted the following: “Ceuta is not alone. [Dramatic pause]. Thousands of us have taken to the streets to convey all our support to the people of Ceuta and to say loud and clear that Ceuta is not for negotiation and that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain are not for sale. [Dramatic pause]. We are all Ceuta”. The tweet did nothing more than reproduce the Partit Popular's talking points just as they had sent them from Madrid, which is the speech that President Prohens usually offers. This time, without translating it, or anything. Very well. It is a pity that reality has nothing to do with all of this. What is happening in Ceuta is a deep migratory, humanitarian, and political crisis, in which Spain's unity and territorial integrity have nothing to do with it, except for those who actually believe that the seventy thousand people who entered on July 30th and 31st from Morocco are an “invasion”. They must be Boabdil's troops, returning to reconquer Granada five hundred years later. What is happening in Ceuta, also, is a geopolitical conflict in which the main objective (of powers like Russia, Israel, or Trump's USA) is the destabilization of Europe, and in which the Spanish border is used to achieve it. The border and the Moroccan civilian population, with more than 140 dead and hundreds or thousands of people abandoned to their fate.The demonstration that President Prohens attended was not about any of that. It was a demonstration, by the way, in which the Police refrained from striking a single blow with a baton, despite the decidedly aggressive manners of many of the participants. The demonstration, in fact, should not be considered as such: the ‘demonstrations’ attended by the far right and neo-Nazis use one of the fundamental rights of democracy, which is the right to demonstrate, to make a public exhibition of brute force. An exercise in intimidation: shouts with insults, racist proclamations, and the demand to put an end to those considered “enemies of the fatherland” are nothing else. Fascism (which in Spain is cloaked in neo-Francoism) has always functioned in this way: seeking intimidation through hatred and brute force. The Popular Party no longer flirts or dallies with fascism, but has joined it definitively, has adopted its discourse as its own, and strives to whitewash and normalize it. President Prohens, as she has always done otherwise, obeys orders and, if she must let herself be photographed next to individuals with their arms raised in the Roman salute or next to individuals who exhibit the neo-Nazi imagery of groups like Plus Ultra, she does so. If anyone ever takes the trouble to remember Prohens' term (some idler with an interest in insignificant things will have to do it), these photos will look very bright in her biography.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sebastià Alzamora]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:30:56 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Politics is like karaoke: everyone has their minutes of glory there]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/politics-is-like-karaoke-everyone-has-their-minutes-of-glory-there_1_5841181.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/691a9efb-96a7-400c-90cc-7bb2e87d6363_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>One of the main talents that serve to succeed in politics is the gift of timing. One can study, have a broad knowledge of society, be loaded with good intentions, want to change the world... Nothing like being in the right place at the right moment. And the Popular Party knows that at the current moment, the place is Ceuta. Some go there, like a good part of the Spanish government, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal. Others have received the president of the autonomous city, like Marga Prohens and Felipe VI. But the majority settles for a kind of spiritual presence and manifests their solidarity with the citizens of Ceuta, as if that served to fix a deep conflict, with multiple edges and complicated, which the Spanish political class has dedicated itself to simplifying and reducing to the absurd.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Llull]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:17:48 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Cort Square was the scene on Wednesday of a great display of exaltation of Spain]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, enjoyed a bath of masses at the demonstration for Ceuta, that is to say, to liquidate the legislature of Sánchez]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PP and the adversary]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/opinion/the-pp-and-the-adversary_129_5840656.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>The PP would do well to be careful with certain successes it thinks it might have. There are battles that, even if you win them, can end up leaving you facing an adversary that is much stronger (and much more dangerous) than the one you intended to defeat. This is what might be happening to it with the extreme right. In its battle against Pedro Sánchez, the PP has been adopting part of the postulates, the language and, above all, the way of exploiting the fears of Vox. And it is multiplying its electorate.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Cristina Ros]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:14:50 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PSIB accuses Prohens of "lying" when she speaks of "massive" arrivals in the Islands: "She wants to harden the discourse"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/the-psib-accuses-prohens-of-lying-when-she-speaks-of-massive-arrivals-in-the-islands-she-wants-to-harden-the-discourse_1_5840372.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/32501007-7ce0-45a2-8e07-7fac5f93ab01_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The PSIB spokesperson in Parliament, Iago Negueruela, reproached President Marga Prohens this Friday for her <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-accuses-sanchez-of-hiding-the-risk-of-migrant-arrivals-in-the-islands-we-are-talking-about-our-security_1_5839922.html" target="_blank">clash with the Spanish government</a>. After the conservative leader said that President Pedro Sánchez hid a report on the risk of migrant arrivals to the Islands, Negueruela accused her of "lying". "She talks about massive arrivals of migrants" by boat, he denounced: "She wants to harden her discourse". </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:52:48 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Iago Negueruela]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The socialist holds a meeting with the president that marks the start of the political year]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens accuses Sanchez of hiding the risk of arrival of migrants to the Islands: "We are talking about our security"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-accuses-sanchez-of-hiding-the-risk-of-migrant-arrivals-in-the-islands-we-are-talking-about-our-security_1_5839922.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/69f662cb-bf69-4614-86de-33f90cbb2bd3_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has shown "deep concern" after the <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-asks-for-explanations-from-sanchez-for-report-arrivals-to-the-peninsula-and-the-balearic-islands_1_5839604.html" target="_blank">head of the Spanish executive, Pedro Sánchez, claimed in the Congress of Deputies</a> that he had a report that warned of a high risk of irregular migrant arrivals to the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. In an urgent appearance, Prohens has accused the socialist of having hidden this information when they met "for an hour" at the Consolat last July 29th. "Why is this information being hidden from us?", she asked herself. She has also demanded that the Spanish government state what measures it has taken to curb this risk of arrivals. "We want to think that the government of Spain has not left this report on a table or in a drawer", she continued: "We are talking about the safety of our autonomous community".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:23:53 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the Government, Marga Prohens, met at the Consolat de Mar]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president asks the socialist "what he has done" after receiving a police report about the Balearic Islands]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens asks for explanations from Sánchez for a report on arrivals to the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-asks-for-explanations-from-sanchez-for-report-arrivals-to-the-peninsula-and-the-balearic-islands_1_5839604.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/ab5ec781-94ef-4a36-9f7c-d994470994c0_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, has demanded explanations from Pedro Sánchez for having stated, during his appearance at the Congress of Deputies, that he received reports from the National Police regarding a risk of migrant arrivals on the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:30:38 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The president has demanded that the activation of Frontex be requested]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Prohens shoots against Sánchez and calls citizens to demonstrate for Ceuta]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/misc/prohens-shoots-against-sanchez-and-calls-citizens-to-demonstrate-for-ceuta_1_5838313.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/06604ac2-766e-4a6a-8313-2f1713c8a23e_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The President of the Government, Marga Prohens, joins the PP's state war against Pedro Sánchez. In a media briefing, she encouraged the citizens of the Balearic Islands to participate in the demonstration called for this Wednesday in support of Ceuta, and accused the Spanish government of "hiding information" about the massive entry of migrants into the autonomous city.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:51:31 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Marga Prohens]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The town halls of PSIB and MÉS will not join the protest]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The PP and PSOE face off over Pollença's accounts with two opposing readings of the settlement]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-pp-and-psoe-face-off-over-pollenca-s-accounts-with-two-opposing-readings-of-the-settlement_1_5837834.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/448e484a-35f0-42a2-866d-0c99cfb3e966_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The budgetary liquidation of 2025 has opened a new political confrontation in Pollença between the PP and the governing team. Both sides agree on one fact: the City Council has failed to comply with the spending rule and will have to draw up a financial economic plan. The disagreement, however, arises when interpreting the figures and the real seriousness of the situation.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:17:39 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Popular Party denounces a breach of 1.5 million and lack of transparency, while the governing team defends that the final figure is 884,617 euros and rejects any financial crisis situation]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Government, on the human chain called for by Madò Farta: "It cannot be said that we have not taken measures"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/the-government-the-human-chain-called-by-mado-farta-it-cannot-be-said-that-we-have-not-taken-measures_1_5834421.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e086ac64-a006-4e43-9eb6-66f164c42bf3_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Anti-massification protests continue: last Wednesday was the last <a href="https://en.arabalears.cat/society/the-residents-conquer-palma-s-born-with-blow-of-trempo-and-bread-with-oil_1_5832980.html" target="_blank">dinner against the gentrification of Brunzzit</a> and, this Saturday, Madò Farta is back in action. The activist has called for a human chain from Plaça d'Espanya to the Consulate, where they will deliver a list of demands to the Government. The spokesperson for the Executive, Antoni Costa, said he respects the demonstration, but also defended the management of President Marga Prohens. "It cannot be said that this Government has not taken measures: some of those requested have already been done," he said. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:17:47 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Madò Farta during the protest at El Trenc.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Costa defends Prohens' management and assures that some of the demands from the protests have already been carried out]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Concern grows in the PP about anti-massification protests]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/politics/concern-grows-in-the-pp-about-anti-massification-protests_130_5830371.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/8a407944-a423-4a1b-8c8c-50b93b7e3baf_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>There is an atmosphere of unease within the Popular Party ranks. Social discontent over mass tourism has put the party on alert. The Government has struggled this summer to avoid being the target of criticism: it distributed posters attributing 115,000 tourist places to the left and blamed the Spanish executive for the police charges at the Palma demonstration. But in recent weeks, another front has opened up: protests are increasingly present in the daily lives of municipalities. The mayors are the ones who receive complaints firsthand, focused on transport problems and the lack of housing. The Executive claims containment measures, but is aware that these problems have not been resolved.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Anna Mascaró]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:08:38 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[A graffiti signed by Arran on the facade of the Ministry of Tourism made this legislature, in an archive image.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The popular mayors frame the neighbors' unease in two areas that the Government admits are complex to address: high housing prices and mobility problems. Several municipalities are promoting exclusive rental offers for residents.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social rights against hate: the failure of Galmés's invisible shield]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p>Global geopolitics has the capacity to shake the most everyday reality of our homes. The consequences derived from the unjust war in Iran that we are suffering in this 2026 are not abstractions; they translate into suffocating inflationary pressure, rising prices in the shopping basket, and difficulty filling the fuel tank. Faced with this unforeseen vulnerability, citizens have the right to expect their institutions to act as a safety net. The clearest example was the Government of Spain, which applied measures such as the reduction for 6 months, on fuels and energy. But the reality of the Consell de Mallorca shows us that, instead of a protective shield, what we have is a wall of propaganda, blame-shifting, and intolerable ideological concessions.Months ago we have been hearing the grand headlines from President Llorenç Galmés. We were promised the mobilization of a historic social shield, which in the case of the IMAS was endowed with 9 million euros to mitigate the effects of this economic crisis. Today, what is the reality? The counter for citizens is at zero. Instead of managing and directly executing the aid, the Council has opted to unload the work and responsibility onto the shoulders of the Town Halls. A decision made unilaterally, without speaking with the mayors, assuming they will take on a new bureaucratic burden when municipal social services are already overwhelmed with their day-to-day. Today, local administrations find themselves having to manage this task without knowing how much, what, or how.But if this dereliction of duty is already serious, the political price paid is even more worrying: the Popular Party has bought Vox's discourse of "national priority" hook, line, and sinker, and has imposed a five-year residency requirement on municipalities to access aid that should be for emergencies.With this hatred, this racism, and this xenophobia that Vox exudes, Galmés's government seems not to see that it is cracking Mallorca's social cohesion. Vox does not hide that it wants to exclude migrants, and that alone is serious enough. But the problem is even greater: this filter ends up excluding anyone who experiences a situation of vulnerability if they do not meet a requirement as arbitrary as having resided on the island for five consecutive years. In short, they are turning a social right into a privilege reserved only for some.Excluded are people who work and sustain essential services, but who have not been able to establish themselves long enough due to precariousness, cost of living, or residential instability. Excluded are families who have had to start from scratch and who, despite making an enormous effort to get ahead, remain trapped in situations of sudden poverty. And also excluded are all those people who need occasional support to avoid falling further down, but who encounter an administrative filter that does not respond to any criteria of social justice. For the Galmés government, need is no longer enough: first, an ideological filter must be passed.The cruelty of this imposition reaches its extreme with the groups that suffer the most. This measure leaves many people in situations of homelessness or with life paths marked by instability, breakdown, and exclusion completely helpless. People who have been left out of the system for multiple reasons and who, precisely because of this, should find an outstretched hand from the administration and not a new barrier. With this ideological filter imposed by the Council, it is materially impossible for many of them to meet the requirement of five years of continuous residence. This social shield does not protect those who need it most: it precisely leaves out those for whom it should exist.The Galmés government has become a voluntary hostage to exclusion. To maintain the stability of the office, they prefer to transfer the pressure to the town councils and apply identity filters to vulnerability rather than confront their governing partner. Conditioning economic support in times of crisis on a count of years is to empty the concept of human dignity of its content.Governing requires broad vision, institutional respect and humanity. Galmés' social shield has turned out to be a propagandistic fiction that has crumbled at the first dictate of the far-right. We need it to be rectified, for municipalities to be heard, and for resources to be made available to people without exclusions. Faced with the cruelty of their national priority, we respond with firmness: social policies; faced with their national priority, social rights always.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sofia Alonso]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:50:39 +0000]]></pubDate>
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