Aragon zeroes cooperation fund after 30 years

The Government of Aragon, led by Jorge Azcón, has zeroed out the cooperation fund in its regional budget, ending a line item that had existed for 30 years. This measure trinc a request from Vox, which was granted by the PP.

## A fund with three decades of history

The Aragon cooperation fund is disappearing. In the budget of the community governed by **Jorge Azcón**, this allocation drops to zero for the first time in **30 years**. This is not a minor adjustment or a name change: it is the suppression of a line that has been part of the regional budget for three decades.

The news was reported by **El País**, attributing the decision to a request from **Vox** accepted by the **PP**. In other words, the party supporting the regional executive conditioned its budgetary support on the elimination of this fund. The result is that the fund ceases to exist in the accounts.

## Implications of zeroing the fund

A cooperation fund is not a single box; it groups contributions that the region allocates to development projects and aid outside its borders. Zeroing it means that next year, no euro will leave Aragon’s coffers through this channel.

The exact amount saved by the regional government does not appear in the published information, but the fact is verifiable: the line item goes from having funding to having none. For the organizations managing these funds, the change is significant, as they lose a stable source of financing.

## The political struggle behind the figure

That Vox requested it and the PP granted it fits the script of coalition budgets. Santiago Abascal’s party has made foreign cooperation one of its targets for cuts, and the **Azcón** government ultimately conceded.

The lingering question is whether this concession repeats in other regions or if Aragon is an isolated case. For now, the concrete data point is one: **zero euros** in a line item that had been alive for **30 years**.