The Sánchez Accounts expect to enter 1,680 million euros in 2023 from the three Basque estates.

A theoretical Quota that represents a 20% increase in the estimate of income from the Basque Country that the 2022 budgets provided. But the real Quota will be a significantly lower amount and will only be known in the month of May 2024. The General Budgets project of the State (PGE) includes a real investment of 558.8 million euros in Euskadi throughout 2023, 4.2% of the total investment in the autonomous communities.

The PNV, which controls the three Basque estates and the economic coordination from the Government of Urkullu, started in 2017 from Minister

Cristóbal Montoro

a Five-Year Quota Law with a 'Base Quota' of 1,300 million euros per year.

But the reality is that the Basque Country has paid annual 'quotas' of 724 million (in 2021) when adjusting accounts by discounting competencies such as the Minimum Vital Income (IMV).

The Government of Sánchez and, especially the Executive of Urkullu

are not in a hurry

to negotiate a new Quota law in an unpredictable economic scenario and with the melon of regional financing open.

Law 11/2017, of December 28, which approves the methodology for assigning the quota of the Basque Country for the five-year period 2017-2021, remains in force in 2022 and will do so in the coming years because neither Madrid nor Vitoria intend to address a new negotiation without economic and fiscal stability.

On May 3, 2017, a double agreement was announced between the Rajoy government and the PNV.

On the one hand, the nationalists undertook to support in Congress the 2017 budgets of the PP Executive and Montoro put an end to a decade of fiscal disagreements between Madrid and Vitoria and guaranteed the five-year Law that the councilor Azpiazu longed for to guarantee fiscal stability from Euskadi.

During this five-year period, the differences between the forecasts included in the budgets as income from the Basque Quota and what was actually collected have increased.

The Government of Sánchez included 1,407 million as income in its accounts last year, but the Basque administrations still do not know the total amount of the disbursement, which, in any case, will be much lower.

The difficulty of the system used to calculate the Quota based on the cost of the primary loads not assumed (on which the 6.25 index is applied) has been multiplied by the expenses assumed by the Government of Spain due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 19 and to deal with the economic crisis after the invasion of Ukraine.

The Basque Country, with almost 16,000 million euros in revenue in 2021, is not interested in recalculating the charges not assumed (the estimate made in 2017 was just 66,000 million euros) or the effect on the Quota of the base year of a deficit state shot.

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