Originally written in Spanish by Rafael García Maldonado. El Mundo. One can be excited at the silliest thing in the world. Although there are some people —too many— who are moved and shed tears when they speak of a region that has become independent from the modern world, one is excited at the adjective used […]
Autor: dfernandez
Un colpo di stato post-moderno
Originale: Un golpe postmoderno. Daniel Gascón. Letras Libres. Il Governo catalano ha attaccato la legalità democratica, mentre lo Stato spagnolo la difende. Nel numero di Settembre della rivista Letras Libres, Miguel Aguilar spiega un malinteso con rispetto alla questione catalana. Argomenta che, da un lato ci sono le questioni del finanziamento e della relazione della […]
In Katalonien geht es nicht um Selbstbestimmung
Die Wirtschaft werde auch ohne Spanien florieren, verspricht die katalanische Regierung, weil Katalonien alsbald EU-Mitglied werde.
Katalonien: Auf gefährlichem Weg
Katalonien ist reich – und will in zwei Wochen über die Unabhängigkeit von Spanien abstimmen. Wirtschaftsbosse sind entsetzt, EU-Juristen sehen große Probleme. Sogar Gewalt scheint nicht mehr ausgeschlossen.
Without a Board of Elections the referendum can’t produce official results
The «Sindicatura Electoral», an organ similar to the Central Board of Elections of Spain (Junta Electoral Central) has been disolved in order to avoid the fines imposed by the Constitutional Court of Spain, which has suspended the Referendum law after the Spanish Government appealed. The explanation for this dissolution, in the words of Catalan officials, […]
Catalonia, a postmodern coup
The Catalan government is attacking democratic legality, and Spain is defending it.
Borrell: “The City is worried about the situation of the Catalonian banks”
Originally published in Expansión. Interview by Amparo Polo / Roberto Casado. Former Minister meets with investors in London to discuss the secessionist challenge. “An escalation would scare markets”. Josep Borrell (La Pobla de Segur, 1947), former socialist minister and former President of the European Parliament, affirmed yesterday in London that the City is particularly concerned […]
Three myths about Catalonia’s independence movement
Spain faces its worst constitutional crisis since the failed 1981 coup d’état, driven by Brexit-style populism
The lies of the Catalan regional premier
The gravity, but above all the falseness of the accusations that he made, now force us to debunk them one by one, for the sake of rigor and freedom of information. We believe it to be a basic tenet of democracy that public authorities cannot lie to citizens with impunity.
L’avenir de l’Europe se joue (à nouveau) en Catalogne
Le défi lancé à la démocratie espagnole par le séparatisme catalan avec le référendum qui doit se tenir le 1er octobre concerne l’Europe tout entière.