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The incorporation of the 'autonomous embassies' to the diplomatic representations of Spain was viewed with suspicion by some autonomous communities, thinking that in this way they would lose visibility, but in the end fifteen of them have accepted the Executive's offer, and have signed an agreement with the Government to physically integrate into the buildings of embassies and commercial offices, which represents significant savings in times of crisis. As El Confidencial Digital has learned, the regional governments of Artur Mas and Iñaki Urkullu are the only ones that have declined the offer and continue to maintain their offices. The Generalitat's Budget for 2014 allocates 2.2 million to its 40 delegations around the world. The Basque Country has 14 offices distributed abroad. Where the incorporation of all communities has occurred has been in the Technical Cooperation Offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this case, Catalonia and the Basque Country have moved to those dependencies, abandoning the ones they had. The Government's estimates are that the integration of the regional offices abroad, which last year exceeded 160 , into the administrative departments of the State would mean a total saving for public administrations of 22 million euros for a period of three years.
Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba led a tense debate on the state of the nation, although with little dialectical duel. Each one used different 'weapons' to refute the other, but without responding to specific questions: the president Phone Number List focused on the economy and surprise measures against the opposition leader's accusations of social cuts. The 'face to face' between both leaders left many questions in the air, such as what will happen with the abortion reform or Rubalcaba's position on the energy reform and the tariff deficit left by the Zapatero Government. Each one tried to attack his opponent by raising topics in which they did not feel comfortable, but the truth is that neither imposed his arguments over the other . The exchange of accusations between the president and the opposition leader caused their respective parliamentary groups, which had cheered their leaders in their first interventions, to force Jesús Posada to ask for silence repeatedly due to the interruptions that were occurring. . Rajoy always relied on economic data Before the duel between Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, the President of the Government had advanced, in his opening speech to the debate, a series of economic measures that caught the opposition leader off guard .
The president, who arrived at the chamber with less than five minutes left before the 12 o'clock plenary session began, announced the 'flat rate' of 100 euros of Social Security contributions to companies that signed new indefinite contracts, and the elimination of personal income tax for workers who earn less than 12,000 euros per year. This last measure, similar to a well-known demand from Rubalcaba, who had been demanding this exemption for contributors earning less than 16,000 euros for some time, 'disconcerted' the opposition leader who, in his initial intervention at four in the afternoon, asked Rajoy how many people would benefit from the elimination of personal income tax. The president had already specified in the morning that this initiative would affect 12 million Spaniards. Rubalcaba tried to “make Rajoy nervous” If Rajoy described in great detail the economic progress achieved in the last two years - highlighting the reduction in the risk premium, the 47% increase in foreign investment , and the increase in Social Security affiliation - Rubalcaba He limited himself to relating these data to the intervention of the president of the ECB Mario Draghi, and trying to bring the debate to social conflicts. Encouraged by the deputies of his parliamentary group, Rubalcaba responded to the headlines about the Spanish economy cited by Rajoy in the morning with newspaper news in which the social problems of the Spanish people were discussed.