The organizations Sineu en Bici i a Peu, Vianants Mallorca, the Train Users Association (AUT), and Terraferida have evaluated the new law regulating vehicle influx approved by the Consell de Mallorca, but they consider that the norm, by itself, will not serve to decongest the island. In a joint statement, they demand that the Consell and the Government stop announcing studies and large future infrastructures and promote immediate improvements in public transport.

More than one reader has sent us comments about the image where the President of the Government and the OCB representative are seen talking amicably at the popular singing event of La Balanguera. The head of the Executive's communication council did not waste time posting on social media the image where Prohens even puts her hand on Antoni Llabrés's shoulder, when it should be remembered that the president has not stopped eroding the demands for Catalan and has even forced the OCB to go to court.

Public investment in culture is not only legitimate, it is necessary. No country or society with the slightest collective ambition can leave culture exclusively in the hands of the market. Institutional support for cultural projects serves to guarantee plurality, access, social cohesion and external projection. But precisely because public resources are limited and come from all citizens, investment must respond to criteria of proportionality, transparency and general interest. It is here that the case of Mallorca Live raises alarms.

The Government has once again lashed out at Aena over the advertising campaign located at Palma airport, which it considers to be encouraging excessive tourism. The Executive has taken the opportunity to advocate for the airport co-management law – pending approval in Congress – as a tool to have more decision-making capacity in situations like this.

Migrant organizations from the Balearic Islands have expressed this Saturday their "deep indignation" at the decision of the Government of Marga Prohens to appeal to the Supreme Court against the extraordinary regularization process approved by the Spanish government and to request its provisional suspension. Among the signing organizations are the Platform for Immigration in the Balearic Islands, the Federation of Immigrant Associations (FADI), the Association of Ecuadorians of Ibiza and Formentera, and the Association of Senegalese of the Balearic Islands.

A phone call announced on January 7, 2001, to Marta Balcells that her father had died. She was not told the cause. He was 55 years old and had heart problems. She inferred that he had suffered a sudden heart attack. She flew from Palma to Barcelona. Upon arriving at the family home, she noticed a very strange atmosphere. “People looked at me in a strange way. I thought it might be due to the shock of the death, but it didn't add up,” she recalls. A cousin pulled her aside and told her that her father had committed suicide. “I remember those days as something brutal, very shocking. The situation was chaotic because we couldn't see the body or organize the funeral, as we depended on forensic investigations. It was very painful to think about what he had done, but you also need to understand it.”

A call announced on January 7, 2001, to Marta Balcells that her father had died. They did not tell her the cause. He was 55 years old and had heart problems. She inferred that he had suffered a sudden heart attack. She flew from Palma to Barcelona. Upon arriving at the family home, she noticed a very strange atmosphere. “People looked at me in a strange way. I thought it might be due to the impact of the death, but it didn't add up,” she recalls. A cousin pulled her aside and told her that her father had committed suicide. “I remember those days as something brutal, very shocking. The situation was chaotic because we couldn't see the body or organize the funeral, as we depended on the forensic investigations. It was very painful to think about what he had done, but you also need to understand it.”

The water reserves of the Balearic Islands have stood at 50% during the month of April, which represents a decrease of four points compared to March, when they were at 54%. Despite this drop, the general situation of the Hydrographic Demarcation (0.514) remains at values higher than those recorded a year ago (0.475) and two years ago (0.455).

The Governing Council has approved this Friday the implementation of the 35-hour work week for civil servants of the autonomous community's Administration and a 1.5% salary increase.

The PP and Vox pact in the Balearic Islands had just been signed when Marga Prohens gave an order that, over time, has become an internal benchmark of her term. It was October 17, 2023, and Parliament was debating a non-binding proposal (PNL) from Vox with no legal effect on Catalan in schools. Despite its symbolic nature, the text specified a point of the agreement between the two parties that the PP had deliberately left open: how the free choice of language should be applied. When Prohens opted to abstain, the initiative failed and the first crisis with her partners opened up. The clash resulted, shortly after, in Vox's rejection of the incoming government's first spending ceiling. "We lost a fundamental law over a PNL," recalls a Popular Party source ironically. Now that the PP is once again revving up its electoral machinery, party sources recall this episode as one that best explains the first three years of the legislature.

Regularization, migration, the people from here, siren effect, registry, residence, rights, collapse, obstacles, boycott... These words –and a few more– have been monopolizing the political debate for weeks, in a loop that no longer hides where it is heading and that drags us towards increasingly dark ideological zones. Meanwhile, an idea as simple as it is uncomfortable is consolidating: skin color, place of birth, and the religion practiced determine a person's rights in the Balearic Islands. What is the excuse? That to be a full citizen, one must accumulate years of residence.

The Balearic Government has initiated excavation, exhumation, and identification of human remains in two mass graves located in the Son Servera cemetery (Mallorca), one situated in a flowerbed and another in the niche area, within the framework of the V Plan de Fosas of the Balearic Islands 2025-2026. The objective of the intervention is to locate the mass graves, recover the remains of the buried individuals, and advance their identification.

The Government of the Balearic Islands has started sessions with the pediatric exoskeleton, which are taking place at the Early Intervention and Assessment Service (SVAP). So far, it has been carried out with six children aged 4, 5, 8, and 11 years old. Three more, aged 7 and 9 years old, have joined them this week and others who are currently being assessed will be added. Each boy or girl will initially undergo 24 one-hour sessions with a frequency of two per week.

The Government presented this Monday the Balearic Agency for Digitalization, Cybersecurity and Telecommunications, IB Digital, the autonomous body that will lead the digital transformation of the regional administration and place the Balearic Islands at "the technological forefront". The president of the regional executive, Marga Prohens, presided over the presentation event, at which she stressed that the creation of IB Digital represents "a decisive step towards building a 21st-century administration, more agile, more efficient, and citizen-centered". "It is the biggest technological revolution in the regional administration in the last 25 years", she remarked.

The Balearic Government maintains its tug-of-war with the State over the distribution of migrant minors and already warns that it will return to the courts if the Spanish government approves a new decree to extend the current system. This was announced this Friday by the Executive's spokesperson, Antoni Costa, after the Governing Council, in a press conference marked by the firmness of his speech.

In the Balearic Islands, the coastal space not only constitutes an environmental heritage of the highest order, but is also a structural pillar of the Archipelago's economy and identity. Coastal ecosystems —beaches, dunes, salt flats, lagoons, cliffs, and posidonia meadows— function as interconnected and inseparable habitats, part of a harmonious whole. Their preservation is key to the good health of marine and terrestrial biodiversity and, moreover, represents a factor of excellence in the tourism model.From this point of view, the tendency to privatize or regulate in favor of commercial interests, as is the case with the new coastal law that the Government of the Balearic Islands intends, represents a direct threat to these strategic values. Continuing to bet on a coastline as a space for private exploitation implies displacing public interest and degrading the most valuable resource that sustains the Balearic economy: its natural environment. The coast should not be understood as a marketable good, but as a common, vital, and organic asset for citizens and also for visitors. In this order, brazenly, not the other way around. The Balearic Islands are a country and, incidentally, a tourist destination, we cannot fail to take this into account.The Government, with the new regulation, intends to save irregular buildings and economic activities within the public maritime-terrestrial domain. Bars, restaurants, and beach bars, which do not comply with the state coastal law, are intended to be included in the register of constructions that the autonomous regulation considers of “cultural interest”. An exceptionally justifiable point, only in cases of irrefutable heritage and ethnographic value, always for public and community use.By favoring concessions and lucrative uses in the public maritime-terrestrial domain, territorial cohesion is weakened and citizen trust in institutions is eroded. Preserving the coastline is not an economic obstacle, but an essential condition for maintaining the productive and social fabric of the Islands. Right now, safeguarding these systems is essential to curb erosion, mitigate the action of storms, and, ultimately, globally help to mitigate the effects of climate change. In a sea as threatened and stressed as the Balearic Sea, strengthening coastal protection and marine reserve figures is a necessary condition to curb biodiversity loss and maintain ecological balance in the long term.On the other hand, the new Balearic coastal law constitutes an evident act of institutional disloyalty, by prioritizing sectoral and private interests over the principles of environmental protection and common use of public space. The purpose of the transfer of powers from the State to the community that took place at the time was to promote homogeneous environmental policies (the community is competent in environmental matters), seek efficiency through proximity to the territory, and boost preservation. The defense of kiosks (and other buildings) located in the public maritime-terrestrial domain not only violates the original constitutional philosophy, on which the law should be based, but also opens the door to a covert privatization of coastal space.Engage in clientelism

All of this, from an institutional perspective, leads one to think that the current Government of the Balearic Islands cannot be trusted. Its behavior is far from exemplary: through a fabricated stratagem known as “local identity”, the Government takes advantage of the transfer of new powers to consolidate illegal activities and engage in clientelism. This perverse drift erodes trust and collaboration between administrations, weakens the sovereign authority of our country, and jeopardizes the legal balance between the general interest and private privileges. In an archipelago particularly vulnerable to climate change and tourist pressure, promoting exceptions that perpetuate coastal occupation is a grave error that compromises our credibility as an adult and modern society.Allow me to explore the poetic path in the face of the stubbornness of the eternally stubborn. I know I will neither soften them nor make them change; however, I believe in lyricism as a drop capable of piercing clay. I am drawn to the beauty of Sylvain Tesson's words in "La vida simple", when he sings of the vital need he feels to change his relationship with nature: “I want to put down roots, to become part of the earth after having been part of the wind”. To stop eroding, to abandon the habit of flying over places, at the rhythm of digital messages without music, and to curse the capital's slot machines, perhaps this will help us to be a little freer and richer. So free as to observe the vote in future elections, from a perspective more respectful of the country's sovereignty, collective well-being, and not with our heads bowed before the market.Possibly, the Government plays with the idyllic image of jetties where boats were kept, forming part of a unique landscape, and attractive piers, which have acquired public use because the former concessionaires have stopped paying. But, this is not the issue, the catalog of impacts is much broader; a lot of concrete and activities not permitted in expired concessions. Not much more can be expected. The Executive has long since aligned itself with radicals who traffic in people's dreams to feed the greed of merchants. They can be fought.

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The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver; the delegate for Education of the City Council, Ferran Montero, and the municipal technician for Education met this Monday afternoon with the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, to request explanations about the implementation of the single school zone in the municipality.

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The mayor of Manacor, Miquel Oliver, the delegate for Education of the City Council, Ferran Montero, and the municipal technician for Education, met this Monday afternoon with the Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, to request explanations about the implementation of the single school zone in the municipality.

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The introductory Catalan courses for newcomers, organized by the Balearic Institute of Studies (IEB), have exceeded expectations with 98 registered participants and 50 on the waiting list. This was announced on Friday by the Director General of Culture, Llorenç Perelló, at a press conference, where he explained that the four courses offered, with 25 places each, have surpassed attendance expectations compared to previous years. Perelló indicated that this model of Catalan courses, which began in September 2015, was initially aimed at families, but this year has been opened to a wider audience. This new course, which began on March 9th and will run until June, is being held at the Casal de Asociaciones de Inmigrantes y ONGD (Community Center for Immigrant Associations and NGOs) and has a predominantly foreign student body, according to the director. The courses last 40 hours and are designed to provide students with basic Catalan language training. Sources at the IEB (Institute of Catalan Studies) also indicate that the intention is for these courses, which are currently offered on an ad hoc basis, to become a "regular and structural" offering.

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The Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, has accused the Damm Group of deceiving the Administration and livestock farmers with the closure of the Agama factory in PalmaA leading figure in Mallorca's dairy industry. Furthermore, during the plenary session of the Balearic Islands Parliament, it was announced that the Government will revoke the declaration of regional interest which the multinational had requested and will demand the return ofa grant of more than one million euros"We will stand with the sector and support its initiatives to guarantee the continuity of the dairy industry," the president stressed.

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