Minister of Universities says he is not satisfied with the management of espionage and regrets many questions

BARCELONA, 23 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, has lamented that there are still "many questions" about the espionage with Pegasus, for which he has said that he is not satisfied with the management of the case, although he believes that everything that has been possible has been done to clarify the facts.

"I think everything that has been possible has been done but there are still many questions," he said in an interview in the newspaper 'Ara' this Monday collected by Europa Press.

He stressed that "there is a certain feeling of dissatisfaction with how this issue has been handled."

"There is a lack of reliable information about what happened. This is the most significant thing," he stated in the interview, and has assured that he is waiting for the appearance of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, this Thursday in the plenary session of Congress.

Asked about the visit to Spain by the King Emeritus, Juan Carlos I, he explained that "it bothers him, especially because of the way it is done" and he considered that explanations about his behavior are necessary.

"After everything that has happened, he returns to Galicia to participate in some regattas as if nothing had happened and without the ability to give explanations," he criticized.

He has argued that Catalan should be the language of use at the university and that Spanish and English "should have a natural presence" since the combination of the three languages ​​is --in his words-- important.

He has considered that Catalan universities are "a model of success" and have very good results; but he has attributed it to the increase in fees - which he has urged to correct - and has lamented that Catalonia is the second autonomous community that devotes less public investment to universities.

Subirats has said that he had changed the framework of the Universities Law project promoted by his predecessor, Manuel Castells, because it generated "a situation of negative blockage", despite stressing that it promoted changes for which it deserved to be approved.

It has opted to promote retraining courses in faculties, encourage citizens to have access to academic research and internationalize universities.

"Now public funding does not even cover the most basic parts of the university's operation," he has criticized, and has advocated increasing the resources allocated to universities by 2,000 million euros before 2030.

He has also considered that the students "are partly right" in their complaint about the lack of teaching innovation and has celebrated that they have a 25% representation in the governing bodies of the centers.