The Government set December 31 as the deadline to find a solution for the General Agrarian Association of Mallorca (Agama), that will stop buying milk from producers in Mallorca in 2026However, sources within the Balearic Islands government have explained to ARA Baleares that they have extended the deadline for finding a solution for the dairy plant because "it cannot be done by the end of the year." Even so, they regretted that the original deadline had not been met and justified the delay by saying that the procedures "are slow." The government has not yet decided on a new deadline to definitively clarify Agama's future, although it is expected to be at the beginning of next year. Otherwise, "there will be no room to maneuver or reverse the situation," government sources acknowledged.

The arrival of the metro, the reclamation of land for offices, the possibility of building rental housing for researchers, and the expansion of FabLabs are pillars of the new strategy to boost Palma's facilities. The Government is also developing the innovation ecosystem throughout the Canary Islands with the plan to promote... CentreBit Menorca and the opening of CentreBit Ibiza.

Unió de Pagesos de Mallorca demands that the Government make a "shield plan" for animal health against Pthis African Swine (African Swine Fever) and other threats such as avian flu, with the aim of "protecting native breeds," as explained by the farmers' union in a statement. Thus, the agricultural organization is making an "urgent" appeal to the Government to "immediately enact and implement" preventive and reinforced animal health and protection measures, based on the experience of other crises. "We cannot allow the Administration to stand idly by. The protection of our native breeds, which are part of our history and our rural identity, must be an absolute priority. We are suffering from bluetongue and we see how nodular dermatosis threatens cattle. Now, ASF and avian flu are a serious threat," stated the Secretary General of Unió de Pagesos, Sebastià Ordines.

The Palma Regional Government and City Council presented an agreement this Monday that some experts consider historic: Cort will purchase up to 12.9 cubic hectometers from the desalination plant. This agreement ends a tense relationship between Palma City Council and the Regional Government regarding water, as Jaime Martínez, who made no statement at the end of the event and left the spotlight to the President of the Regional Government, Marga Prohens, did not want to purchase desalinated water. The reason for this reluctance is that the Government produces desalinated water through Abaqua, and therefore, purchasing it means paying for it and consequently having to foot the bill. Prohens has managed to end Palma's water war, and Emaya will purchase more of the desalination plant's production.

He Government The Ministry of Agriculture is already preparing the report to withdraw the strategic industrial project designation it granted to Agama twenty months before the dairy announced that it would stop purchasing milk from producers in Mallorca in 2026, according to government sources confirmed to ARA Baleares. "Some meetings are still needed," they added. On December 1, 2023, the Governing Council declared the importance of the project proposed at the time by Damm, the company that owns Agama.

Vicenç Vidal, a member of Congress for Sumar MÁS, said this Monday that he feels "deeply aggravated by the inconsistent and inhuman attitude of Marga Prohens's government" in relation to the Prime Minister's recent attitude toward the arrival of migrants. For the lower house member, "the priority in a situation like the one we are experiencing is the defense of human rights and common sense."

The European Commission has proposed reducing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) by €86 billion for the period between 2028 and 2034, which in the Balearic Islands could translate into a "loss of close to €15 million per year," according to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment, Joan Simonet. Farmers in the Balearic Islands are concerned about the proposed "fairly serious" cut in European aid, according to the president of the Association of Organic Agricultural Production of Mallorca (Apaema), Miquel Coll.

It's not supportive. It's not fair. It's not generalizable. And, above all, it doesn't take into account the needs of the citizens of the Balearic Islands. The Spanish government and the Generalitat of Catalonia have signed an agreement that amounts to nothing more than the separatist quota, the transfer of management of all taxes. They have done so bilaterally, excluding and disregarding the rest of the autonomous communities. It's an agreement we view with extreme concern, and one we strongly oppose for several reasons.

Workers of companies subcontracted by Aena to provide logistics and ground operations services to aircraft, airlines and passengers (handling) at Son Sant Joan Airport complain of working "among fleas and cockroaches." A worker on the ARA Baleares plane shows off her body "covered in flea bites." In fact, at the workers' demonstration this Friday protesting working conditions, the secretary of the UGT (Union of Workers' Union) for the air sector in the Balearic Islands, José Negreira, denounced that "there's everything in the baggage claim area." "We have workers with many bites all over the place. It's shameful," he reiterated. Along the same lines, he added that passengers, "when they board, they see fireflies running around." "The airport is the gateway for tourism to the Islands. We're the first face they see, and the service isn't very good," he insisted.

In front of the government's refusal to accept migrant minors Asylum seekers who are now in the Canary Islands, the Secretary of State for Security, Aina Calvo, has emphasized that the responsibilities of the administrations are "very defined" in the frameworks of their powers and has warned that "whoever decides to ignore them will have to assume their responsibilities."

The Government will allocate €15 million from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS) to local councils to take over obsolete hotels with the aim of "reducing tourist accommodation, improving the environmental quality of destinations, and also moving toward a more sustainable and balanced tourism model," the Regional Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sports announced this Thursday. The vacant spaces will be used to "develop green areas, public housing, educational facilities, health centers, or renaturalization projects that help mitigate the effects of climate change." However, he noted that "many of these establishments, which are now obsolete, lost their accommodations a long time ago." The Executive expects the calls for proposals to be published between October and November 2025. Once resolved, local authorities will have a maximum period of 18 months to execute the projects and an additional three months to justify them. "six or seven" projects for the acquisition and demolition of tourist establishments were left out of last year's call for proposals, which was funded with €16 million from the European Union. The last one is the only one that has already been taken over, while the rest must be demolished before the end of 2025.