Tributes took place on the street named after him, next to the Faculty of Economics, in Tarongers Campus. Mª Vicenta Mestre, principal of the University; Ximo Puig, President of the Valencian Government; Vicent Soler, Valencian Minister of Treasury; Ana Barceló, Valencian Minister of Universal Health; and José Manuel Pastor, dean of the Faculty of Economics attended the event.

Mª Vicenta Mestre, principal of the University, reminded Ernest Lluch due to “his defence of civic values of dialogue and reflection, like a good university professor.” She stated that “the best thing we can do is to push hard to maintain keep his values within us, particularly in the current circumstances.”

President Ximo Puig also emphasised in professor Lluch values, “the values of the Enlightenment that we need in today’s Europe, lately damaged by fanaticism: dialogue, rationality, fraternity and critical thinking.” “Ernest Lluch himself is very present nowadays and his murderers, only a bitter memory, are not remembered anymore” pointed out Puig.

“Traces left by Ernest Lluch in our society are immense, particularly his defence and fight for our Statute of Autonomy, rescuing Valencian identity from self-governance” highlighted Vicent Soler, Valencian Minister of Treasury.

On her behalf, Valencian Minister Ana Barceló reminded Ernest Lluch’s work as Spanish Minister of Health, as author of the General Act of Health in 1986. Barceló remarked that “the principles [of the act] are still alive: reduce social and territorial disparities to achieve a public and global access to health.”

Dean José Manuel Pastor mentioned Lluch’s teaching and research career resulting into the publication of ‘La via valenciana’, a book that discusses Valencian economy “with a strong defence and purpose of finding solutions to boost our economy and society in the 70s.”

On 21 November 2010, Ernest Lluch, professor and full professor in the Faculty of Economy, was murdered by the terrorist group ETA outside his house in Barcelona. He stood out as a great advocate of dialogue and freedom. Within the Basque conflict, he was in favour of building bridges as a tool for achieving both respect for human rights and appeasement in the Basque Country.