The Government has inserted the priority of regional agreements that it promised the PNV (Basque Nationalist Party) into the unemployment benefit decree. The CEOE employers’ association is the main party affected by the Executive’s concessions to the PNV. The social partners are protesting against the approval of the change in the Workers’ Statute, which bows to nationalist demands that give primacy to regional agreements when they are more beneficial to…

Fernando González Urbaneja | Among the government’s first appointments (ratifications) was that of José Félix Tezanos (77) as president of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS). Of course it is legal; it is the government’s right to choose whomever it pleases for a post in the state organisation chart, as long as it does not incur legal grounds of ineligibility. But what smells of scorched earth are the explanations of…