It can be listed in any order, but the fact is that housing, saturation, and mobility are the major structural problems that the citizens of the Balearic Islands have been dragging since the beginning of the last legislature, that of the Pact. Governments, headlines, announcements, and press conferences have passed, but the difficulties have shown their resilience and public policies have not even been able to diminish them.

The PP's decision to allow companies and investment funds to buy housing at a regulated price is the latest example of the change in housing policy model in the Balearic Islands, driven by Marga Prohens's government, with political role models like Isabel Díaz Ayuso's Community of Madrid. The Popular Party has opted to increase supply and private initiative over protected housing, a strategy that the left and experts consulted by ARA Balears have criticized.

The Vice President of the Government, Antònia Maria Estarellas, referred this Monday to the 0.9% increase in tourist arrivals in the Balearic Islands until April and recalled that the Executive "does not speak of a decrease, but of containment" and that its model "is not in the figures", but in how they want there to be an increase in tourism. "The Government's model is not in the figures, it is in how we want this increase in tourism to come, in extending the months and in deconcentrating the massive influx in very specific months," she commented.

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's Marine Conservation Plan, which was intended to position the Balearic Islands as an "international benchmark in marine environmental protection", as stated by the Executive, was nothing more than "a declaration of intent", according to the Director General of Fisheries, Antoni M. Grau. The plan was conceived without any budget allocation and has not been made public, despite requests from parties such as the PSIB, which has repeatedly called for it without the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, headed by Joan Simonet, facilitating access to the document. The Government, conservation organisations, and representatives of the fishing sector signed the plan on February 16, and little has been heard of it since President Marga Prohens presented it.

The Government will request the Supreme Court to provisionally suspend the extraordinary regularization process for migrants until the contentious-administrative appeal it will file is resolved, as announced by the Executive's spokesperson, Antoni Costa, and disseminated by Europa Press. The Governing Council authorized the Community's Advocacy to initiate judicial proceedings this Friday. The Government argues that the measure was approved without the consensus of the autonomous communities, parliamentary debate, or assessment of the budgetary impact to foresee the social, economic, and administrative consequences.

While the Parliament began to process the reform of the Law of capital of Palma, a hundred people had already received the order to leave the old prison without knowing where they will live when the judicial process ends. This image summarizes the political moment that the Balearic Islands are going through. The capital that the mayor Jaime Martínez claims as the economic and institutional engine of the Islands is also the scene where many of the tensions that have marked the PP's return to the main institutions are concentrated: the housing crisis, tourist saturation, demographic pressure caused by the need for labor in the tourist economic model, the fragility of public services, and a discourse increasingly obsessed with poor migrants.

The second vice-president of the Consell de Mallorca, Pedro Bestard, appeared this Thursday to clarify the use he has made of two vehicles from the insular institution. But the appearance served above all to confirm one thing: that Vox considers it a sufficient explanation to say that Bestard does a lot of work and travels to many places in Mallorca. Wanting to know what two public vehicles were doing —without the label identifying them as such— parked in front of his house is nothing more than a strategy by the left to wear down the PP government and the far-right, according to the spokesperson for Vox on the Council, Antoni Gili. Denying that a Subaru and a Dacia, which should be used for institutional tasks, have been used personally is already, apparently, providing explanations.

The Government is preparing to launch a new surveillance body for the security of public buildings in the Balearic Islands. The measure focuses on the role of agents from the CAIB Security Service, to whom it attributes more functions "adapted to the current context", according to the Government.

What could have been an anecdotal social media post ended with a minor from Mallorca declaring as investigated before the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office. Guillem (a pseudonym to protect his anonymity), who was 17 years old at the time of the events, found himself involved in a judicial process as a result of an Instagram story in which he denounced tourist overcrowding.

Between 2,000 and 3,000 homes: this was the figure of houses that the Lloguer Segur program was to provide solely in a first phase in the Balearic Islands, according to the Minister of Housing, Territory and Mobility, José Luis Mateo. The results at the end of April 2026 confirm the failure of this measure: the program has 76 homes in the Islands, a figure that, on average, represents 1.13 homes per municipality, 1,924 fewer apartments than the minimum of 2,000 that Mateo assured would be available.

The location from which the total solar eclipse of August 12 will be visible is beginning to be decided this week in the Balearic Islands. Between this Tuesday and Wednesday, citizens can check from which points they will have good visibility of the phenomenon in a test that will serve both to choose the observation site in advance and to create a map with recommended areas throughout the archipelago.

The location from which the total solar eclipse of August 12 can be seen is beginning to be decided this week in the Balearic Islands. Between this Tuesday and Wednesday, citizens can check from which points they will have good visibility of the phenomenon in a test that will serve both to choose the observation site in advance and to create a map with recommended areas throughout the archipelago.

The Balearic Government has increased the maximum property price threshold for eligibility for tax breaks under the Property Transfer Tax (ITP). With the publication this Tuesday in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands of the order issued by the First Vice President and Minister of Economy, Finance, and Innovation, Antoni Costa, the threshold of €270,151 has been raised by 40 percent in both Ibiza and Formentera, to €378,212, and by 14 percent in Mallorca. The change is retroactive to March 1st. The President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, announced this measure during the recent General Policy Debate, with the aim of facilitating access to first-time homeownership for those facing the greatest difficulties, as the Ministry recalled in a press release. Once the report from the Balearic Islands Housing Observatory on home purchase and sale values ​​in 2024 was completed, it was confirmed, using official and objective data, that these values ​​increased across a significant portion of the territory. To benefit a broader segment of the population, it was decided to increase the weighted values ​​by island, rather than by municipality, taking into account the transactions carried out in each municipality. This avoids situations of inequality between neighboring municipalities, as the average transaction value per municipality would have a smaller relative weight in the final result for each island.

The President of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, warned this Saturday that population growth threatens the "identity" of the Islands, an assertion she made during the Balearic Islands Day celebrations, an institutional event where the Ramon Llull Awards and the community's gold medal were presented. "We have watched with nostalgia as the appearance of our cities and towns changed. As we have doubled our population during this time, a population growth that we have embraced as a challenge we cannot ignore, a pattern of unsustainable growth. Unsustainable for our territory, for our identity, and also for our people." But, several paragraphs later, Prohens affirmed that "the Balearic way of being" remains unchanged: "Today we also celebrate, precisely, that there is something that does not change, that there is something that remains unaltered. (...) Our way of being."

The Government approved on Friday the declaration of the expansion of the CEU Beato Luis Belda University, part of the San Pablo CEU University Foundation, as a Project of Special Strategic Interest (PEIE), with the incorporation of the plot located at 3 Son Serra Parera Street, known as the Son Serra Perera estate. This expansion, integrated into the university project that had already been declared a PEIE on September 25, 2025, is designed to complete the campus with new institutional spaces and facilities for teaching and research. The Son Serra Perera estate, acquired on February 5, 2026, by the San Pablo CEU University Foundation, will house administrative and faculty offices, a library, an exhibition and conference hall, and outdoor spaces for students, as explained at a press conference by the Government spokesperson. With the PEIE declaration and in accordance with Decree Law 8/2025, the primary use of the plot will automatically become educational.

The Government has once again extended an olive branch to Vox to advance initiatives in this new political year, which it faces with "absolute tranquility," despite having extended the budget. "Neither the Government nor the PP will obstruct negotiations with Vox," stressed the Executive spokesperson, Toni Costa, at the press conference following the Cabinet meeting, as reported by Europa Press. The Minister of Economy, Finance, and Innovation also noted that Vox is the PP's natural partner and that, consequently, negotiations with this group will continue. Costa also maintained that the budget extension does not imply any parliamentary gridlock and expressed his confidence in approving the upcoming initiatives in Parliament "with considerable consensus." Regarding the tax deduction that the Government announced to prevent rent increases, the spokesperson indicated that negotiations are underway with Vox on an amendment to include it in the draft law for accelerating strategic projects, which is expected to be processed in the second half of February.

Without access to the list of 540 proposals currently being considered by the Pact for Sustainability. This is the situation the PSIB (Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands) found itself in after requesting information from the Government through a written question to the Parliament. The Ministry of Labor, Public Administration, and Social Dialogue, headed by Catalina Cabrer (pictured accompanying this text), informed Socialist MP Llorenç Pou that he would not receive the initiatives submitted in this process, which the Executive has always emphasized as participatory. One of the arguments the Government uses to deny the information is that the PSIB "has been invited at all times" to participate in the Pact, of which it is not a member, and also justifies blocking the proposals based on data protection law. However, Pou only requested access to the proposals themselves, not authorship – which he did request in a previous question, for which he also received no response from the Government. The website for the Pact for Sustainability also provides no information on the initiatives – this page hasn't been updated for months – and, according to ARA Baleares, the entities that are part of the Pact for Sustainability also have no concrete proposals. The only explanation the Government has given is that, out of 540, 102 had already been addressed, without further details.

The Balearic PP has praised the tourism containment and deseasonalization strategy, which has achieved "a change in trend" regarding tourist arrivals to the Islands. PP deputy María Salomé Cabrera highlighted that tourist arrivals increased by 0.7% in peak season, while in the mid and low seasons they increased by 7.1%. However, Cabrera failed to mention that the Islands have once again shattered the visitor record in 2025, with almost 19 million tourists – the total for 2024 was reached in November. "The policies promoted by the PP government, with zero growth in hotel capacity and the positioning of the Islands as a cultural tourism destination, are succeeding in containing the influx during the summer months, redirecting peak periods towards the mid and low season months, and lengthening and deseasonalizing the season," Cabrera emphasized. "Faced with those who spoke of degrowth but authorized 115,000 new tourist accommodation places and allowed the illegal supply to grow unchecked, the Government has changed the course of tourism to our islands towards restraint, reducing seasonality, and a more sustainable tourism model that respects residents," he added.