The Spanish foreign affairs ministry has finally decided to present an appeal against the reopening of six Catalan delegations abroad suspended by article 155, the suppression of Catalan autonomy and the sudden firing of its government and which the new Catalan foreign minister, Ernest Maragall, had moved to recover. Minister Josep Borrell's appeal is no great surprise, since he'd hinted at it in some of the many statements he's made since taking office at the start of June. However, on the other hand, it is a shot from the minister in the twisting relationship Pedro Sánchez's government has with Quim Torra's government in which nice words and PSOE's posturing dominate and which, on the other hands, lacks real actions. As if politics can only be carried out going from one microphone to another.
Hence the importance of Borrell's move: getting involved in a topic like that of the embassies, something which was already excluded in political and media terms because the Catalan government had already reopened them without great problems is quite the (non-verbal) statement of hostility. Especially since in the department's arguments it's just said that they haven't completed the relevant bureaucratic process for the opening of the Catalan embassies and the affected ministries, the Treasury and territorial policy, besides the foreign office, weren't able to have their say. A position at least punctilious since the delegations were working before their closure by article 155.
It's clear that the Catalan government has to continue with its plan to open the delegations abroad which it has right to like any other Spanish autonomous community. The politics of intimidation by Sánchez's executive lacks political logic and doesn't match with the votes prime minister Sánchez was granted to take office. "I'll give you everything and you don't give me anything" isn't compatible with politics, unless one of the two sides lacks a sense of the ridiculous. The resumption of the political year should correct this situation.
Because Borrell is clear what he has to do.