Foto: Sebastian Lengauer | Unsplash Ursprünglich auf Spanisch veröffentlicht: “Separatismo e ignorancia alemana”. Juergen B. Donges. El Mundo. 14 Apr. 2018 Als ich am Sonntagmorgen, dem 25. März, erfuhr, dass Carles Puigdemont von der deutschen Polizei verhaftet worden war, war ich erstaunt. Ich dachte, der abgesetzte Präsident der Generalidad Kataloniens habe bei seiner zweiten Flucht […]
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On the “Catalan process” and the Balkans
Originally published in Spanish: “Del ‘procés’ catalán y los Balcanes”. Borja Lasheras. El Mundo. 6 Nov 2017 In spite of the noise about Catalonia, we must keep refuting the Catalan process’ post-truths, in the hope of recovering the seny [a Catalan term for «common sense»]. Given the propensity of its spin doctors to shamelessly appropriate […]
Indipendenza senza soldi
Originale: “Independencia sin blanca”. Luis Garicano, Francisco De la Torre. El Mundo La Catalogna non ha un erario proprio in grado di riscuotere le tasse più rilevanti. Non ha informazione dei contribuenti, né un sistema legale. C’è una connessione diretta tra la fuga delle grandi corporazioni catalane e la dichiarazione d’indipendenza “sospesa – reversibile” di […]
Independent and broke
Published originally in Spanish. Luis Garicano, Francisco de la Torre. El Mundo Catalonia lacks a tax authority of its own capable of collecting great taxes. It has neither taxpayers’ data nor a legal code. There’s a direct link between the flight of major Catalan companies and Carles Puigdemont’s ‘suspended/reversible’ declaration of independence. It’s true, as […]
‘Reality bites’
Originale: “Reality Bites”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo. Nessun piano resiste il contatto col nemico: la frase del innovatore maresciallo prussiano Helmuth Von Moltke si adatta perfettamente alla situazione in Catalogna negli ultimi giorni. Senza escludere, certamente, che quando sará pubblicata questa nota le cose siano nuovamente cambiate. ¡Angoscia di giornalista! Non sembra. Tutto sembra […]
On Violence
Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo It is inevitable: when the events overflow the law, violence appears. And along with it, the reflections on violence. This has been happening since last Sunday, after the police action to prevent the holding of the illegal referendum. The tension accumulates since then; the Catalan insurrection […]
Ils se sont habitués à cracher sur le reste des Espagnols
Publié à l’origine en espagnol. Emilia Landaluce. El Mundo Felix Ovejero (Barcelonne, 1957) en a assez de devoir démasquer en continue les mensonges du nationalisme. Le penseur croit encore qu’une gauche anti-indépendantiste est possible en Espagne et il accuse le PSOE et Podemos de transiger avec le nationalisme, la forme superlative de la xénophobie. Q – […]
Reality Bites
Published originally in Spanish. Manuel Arias Maldonado. El Mundo No plan resists contact with the enemy; the sentence from the innovative Prussian marshal, Helmuth Von Moltke, fits like a glove to the change of direction that Catalan question is taking in these last few days. Without prejudice that, at the time of publication of this […]
Peace, Law, Force
Published originally in Spanish. Arcadi Espada. El Mundo. The Spanish democratic government drew yesterday a red line. This is a hackneyed image, but still has some colour left. Red lines are sometimes drawn with blood. However, Spanish police’s exemplary work made possible that only a little were needed to draw that line. Their work yesterday […]
They have accustomed to spit on the rest of Spaniards
Félix Ovejero interviewed by Emilia Landaluce. Originally in Spanish. El Mundo. What such a boring, the Catalan issue… You see it. I wish we could be talking about poetry. But everything seems to lead us to the same place. And we must stick our neck out. That was, in essence, what I was referring to […]