The issue of regional funding has pitted Catalonia against the Balearic Islands. The presidents of both territories, Salvador Illa and Marga Prohens, met this Friday in Palma, but their disagreements over regional financing proved irreconcilable. While the Catalan president, Illa, called for a united front before the meeting to secure funding that addresses the unique circumstances of both Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, Prohens rejected any bilateral approach and urged Illa to negotiate with Spain exclusively in multilateral forums. If he fails to do so, she warned, the Balearic Islands will appeal "to every possible authority." "How does Catalonia's desire for greater self-government harm the Balearic Islands?" the Socialist leader asked at a breakfast briefing prior to the meeting. "Let each region go its own way; Catalonia will go its own way," he stated. "They're talking about reforming the financing system when the debate hasn't even begun," Prohens retorted in statements following the meeting. "If it's only been opened for Catalonia, I reject it outright." Following the directives from the People's Party headquarters in Madrid, the Popular Party representative called for "alliances and points of agreement among all the autonomous communities, but not specifically for Catalonia": "There's nothing in our Constitution that grants it special status; the only recognized special status is that of the non-peninsular territories." In this regard, she called on Isla to close ranks and demand that the reform of the financing system take into account "population growth, the transient population, the principle of ordinality, and insularity." "We are the second largest contributor to the system, behind Madrid and ahead of Catalonia," she explained. "We can defend these issues together, but it is essential that Catalonia participate in multilateral forums, like everyone else," he argued. In this regard, Isla urged Prohens to put aside "the recriminations" and work together at the Fiscal and Financial Policy Council (PFF), scheduled for next Monday.

The President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Salvador Illa (PSC), will meet with the head of the Balearic Islands government, Marga Prohens (PP), on November 14 in Palma. According to sources at the Consolat de Mar and the Generalitat, the meeting was arranged at the Socialist leader's request. Illa will be in Palma with the Speaker of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, to attend a Prensa Ibérica gala. Sources from the Catalan president's team explain that he always offers to visit the president of another region whenever he travels there, and confirm that the meeting is confirmed. This is the second attempt by the two presidents to meet. In April 2025, they arranged a meeting on the occasion of the transfer of the presidency of the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion, the territorial cooperation organization between the Catalan, Balearic, and Occitanie regional governments. They were ultimately unable to meet due to time constraints. However, they already greeted each other last June in Madrid, during the Conference of Presidents.