The current situation in Catalonia has been described as a clash between legality and legitimacy. While there are cases in which there might be a conflict, it is not usually the case in modern, liberal democracies. After all they are defined by having mechanisms so that with enough legitimacy -enough votes- it is possible to […]
Mes: septiembre 2017
Manifiesto de profesores españoles de Derecho Constitucional a favor del cumplimiento de la Constitución
Más de 200 profesores de Derecho Constitucional de toda España han pedido al Presidente de la Generalitat, a la Presidenta del Parlament y otros cargos públicos que, por respeto al Estado de Derecho, se abstengan de dañar gravemente las instituciones. Hemos querido expresar su defensa del cumplimiento de la Constitución empleando las cuatro lenguas que […]
Le futur de la Catalogne
Publié sur le site The Times. Lettre à l’éditeur de The Times, par John Elliott. Monsieur, Il est surprenant de comparer son reportage (23 septembre) sur la “campagne de haine” en Catalogne menée par les partisans les plus extrémistes du plan du gouvernement catalan pour faire un référendum sur l’indépendance (“Menaces de mort à mesure […]
Exasperation
Originally published in Spanish. Laura Freixas. La Vanguardia. I am fed up. I am fed with a procés [the process towards independence -TN] that has been spinning like a ferris wheel for five years, going nowhere but consuming energies, monopolizing debates, wasting public resources paid by all. I am fed with a Govern [Regional government […]
Il referendum non è la soluzione
Originale: «El referéndum no es la solución». Paul Marí-Klose e Ignacio Molina. El País. La Catalogna non è un solo popolo e in realtà l’unica soluzione sono delle formule sensate per riuscire a stare insieme che faticosamente si riescano a costruire, con grandi dosi di dialogo e generosità e con sistemi di potere condiviso. La […]
Catalogne
Publie à l’origine en espagnol. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. Dans ses méditations sur la révolution anticapitaliste, le philosophe slovène Slavoj Zízêk met l’accent sur le lendemain de l’événement : cet événement auquel Jarvis Cocker consacrait une chanson, qui se terminait en disant au revoir au cholestérol. En réalité, il n’y a rien comme le […]
Catalonian Nationalist Populism
Originally published in Spanish. Aurora Nacarino-Brabo. Letras Libres. The most burgeoning political event of the last years is populism. This is how the rise of anti-establishment parties has been described —from Syriza in Greece to Trump in United States to plebiscitary accidents like Brexit and the prominence of candidates like Grillo in Italy, Le Pen […]
You don’t understand it
Published originally in Spanish. Rafael Latorre. El Mundo. “You don’t understand it”, they object to the jurist, to the economist, to the reporter. “You don’t understand it!”, yells both the teenager and the veteran; the British Hispanist, the xarnego MP, the Dutch Erasmus, the Galician undergraduate and the Gironan who buries his roots so deep […]
Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegal
The decision over the future of Catalonia will ultimately be little more than an unofficial consultation
Ein unabhängiges Katalonien bleibt ein Traum
In der spanischen Region Katalonien wird am Sonntag über die Gründung eines eigenen Staates abgestimmt – doch demokratisch ist dieses Vorgehen nicht.