The CAV budget for 2026 will grow “moderately” and strengthen important areas

Basque government budgets for 2026 will be a Moderate growth “ As for this year, as a result of it Strengthen “key” areas of public policy “without endangering financial stability”, as announced by the Minister of Finance and Finance, Nöel d’Enjou, who has reported that the budgetary project will be approved in the Government Council on 28 October.

The counselor, which appeared before the media after the approval of the economic guidelines on which the accounts of 2026 will be based, explained that the budgetary project will be aimed at “guaranteeing the drawing of Basque citizenship and economic growth, in a context characterized by worldwide uncertainties.”

D’Anjou has added that the Basque government “will continue to act as the engine of the investment and the Long -term growthTo build a more sustainable, digital and crashed Euskadi, with the transversal axis of the gender perspective. “

In that sense, he emphasized that a strategy to Gender perspective In the general budgets of the public sector of the autonomous community of Euskadi.

Moreover, he has announced that the executive will activate all resources at its disposal “with the aim of improving the Public-private partnership“, and that” will explore and get the most out of the possibilities offered by the economic concert. “

The guidelines of the 2026 budgets are drawn up from an economic predictions that have a GDP growth 2.1% in 2025 and 1.8% in 2026, the same figures as those in the estimates that the director made in April.

Regarding employmentIn 2026, around 12,000 extra jobs will be created, which means an increase of 1.2 %. The unemployment rate will be reduced on average four tenths in 2025 to 7.0 %, and it is expected that it will be maintained below this level during the year, without leaving it in 2026, if it is expected to be set at 6.7 %.

From the basis of these predictions, the budgetary project that will prepare the Basque government will be oriented to improve the lives of people, economic growth, good work and energy transformation, sustainability, a model of solid and honest coexistence and the improvement of self -government “.

In this way the accounts will give priority to the measures aimed at improving health, promoting quality work, guaranteeing inclusive education, facilitating access to housing, improving security and strengthening social provisions.

In Economic Affairs, the aim is to go to ‘a richer, but also more egalitarian society’. The counselor has warned that “we cannot ignore the context in which we can move”, because this is “a time characterized by uncertainty and with a growth of political movements that we do not share.” The Basque government strives to “combine economic growth with social well -being,” he added.

Moreover, the budget will be considering measures for talent attraction, support from industry, strengthening industry and innovation. To this end, the dedication to O&O will consolidate with an annual increase of at least 6%and “will be” an important strategy to compete in an increasingly technological and digital world. “

Energy transformation

D’Anjou has warned that climatic phenomena such as Dana or incidents such as the Black -out that influenced the entire state “remind us that energy transformation and sustainability are no longer an option”, but “an urgent need”. For this reason, he has argued “doubling the efforts for a fair and sustainable transfer of energy, which transforms the productive sector and acquires competitive capacity”.

On the other hand, the government will work for a “solid and honest” coexistence model, based on “respect, coexistence and human rights”, given that these values ​​”are not only part of our identity, but also the basis of our democracy.”

The counselor also emphasized that “within the framework of our forces and the current legality, we must continue in the strengthening of our self -administration”, while at the same time they must “benefit from the opportunities offered by the internationalization of basques.”

D’Anjou has announced that this will be the bases on which the budget of 2026 will be drawn up, which will have one of the priorities “the maintenance of the sustainability of public finances.” In that sense, it has warned that it will be necessary to “combine tax strictness with strategic investments.”

Deadlines

The Basque government hopes that the increase in the 2026 budget compared to this year “moderate” with regard to the amount that was initially submitted in the 2025 accounts (15,728 million euros), which make “the most important areas possible without endangering the financial stability of the government.”

D’Anjou recalled that these economic guidelines will end the start of a process that will end with the approval of the budget law in the month of December. The counselor explained that the government “has a hard work ahead”, and that it will have the first budget design at the end of September, which will be completed with the conclusions derived from the Basque Council of Finance.

He Design budgets The October 28 In the administrative council, and will be sent to parliament before 31 October, where the approval of the accounts is guaranteed thanks to the absolute majority that add the parties of the executive (PNV and PSE-EE).

In any case, D’Anjou has confirmed that the Basque government has the will to reach agreements with the opposition, so it will meet the parliament groups to talk about the bills before the approval of the project in the administrative council.

On the other hand, he has recognized the difficulty in making predictions about the evolution of the economy and the collection in the current context of ‘uncertainty’. However, the counselor has confirmed that the evolution of the income of the Foral Haciendas “is” in the right direction “, although he remembered that it will be necessary to wait for the month of October, when the Basque Council of Finance will close the prediction of the collection of the year.

D’Anjou also explained that the director does not expect to lower his debt level next year, because in the current context “it is up to the initiative of the public part”, to mobilize “private capital” to handle the transformations that must be tackled.

Anyway, he remembered that the debts of Euskadi is “half” of the average of the autonomous communities of the common regime. He also said that the destination of the extra one billion in this year’s budget, by expanding the debt limit approved by the Parliament, could be known after the summer.