CATALONIA IN WORLD NEWS
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A YouTube video featuring an Andalusian Spanish blogger criticizing xenophobic attitudes in Spain toward the region of Catalonia has gone viral.
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She asserted that, in her native Andalusia, she was
“raised to hate” the Catalan people and Catalonia as symbols of all
Spain's ills
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Spain's Constitutional Court on Wednesday put a brake on Catalonia's drive for a referendum on independence by opening the door to a legal challenge against the region's claim to sovereignty.
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Catalonia's regional parliament in January passed a
"declaration of sovereignty" which it said gave Catalonia grounds "to
exercise its right to decide" its political future.
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Catalonia Independence explained to the World
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Is the EU more afraid of the impossibility of a Spain without
Catalonia than of the feasibility of Catalonia as an independent
state?-Absolutely. The problem is not whether Catalonia is feasible.
Nobody has any doubt about it: we have an industrial base, an economic
structure, a culture of performance of public institutions which do not
allow for any doubt that Catalonia can exist as an independent state.
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The Wall Street Journal Europe writes that Madrid's attempts to take a bigger chunk from a shrinking pie aren't working out too well.
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Spain is pain!
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In Zeiten der Eurokrise wird in Katalonien die Idee einer Loslösung von Spanien wieder populärer. Der katalonische Nationalist und Verfassungsexperte Miquel Roca kann den Stimmungswechsel nachvollziehen, warnt aber vor einer Eskalation.
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Interesting!
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On Wednesday, the Camp Nou will feature 90,000 cards
in the colours of the Catalan flag and of Barça together with the match
slogan. The only part of the stadium not to feature the mosaic will be
area assigned to the Bayern fans.
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Squad, give me 5!
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The British finance minister said that London, taking a lesson from the euro zone crisis, would be unlikely to form a currency union with an independent Scotland.
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Crying Wolf!
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Spain Inquisition Again!
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The GLAM movement in Catalonia has been very active the
past few years. Edit-a-thons and workshops have taken place in all kinds
of institutions, but the one that was held this April in Fundació
Miró in Barcelona (Catalonia), co-organized by Amical Viquipèdia, was
really special: the edit-a-thon lasted for 35 consecutive hours, split
in three session. Moreover, during the first hours of the edit-a-thon,
Catalan Wikipedia reached 400.000 articles – a magical coincidence that
made the event even more special.
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The eleven municipalities that have handed in their taxes
to the Catalan Tax Agency instead of directly doing it to the Spanish
entity are Arenys de Munt (Maresme County), Llinars del Vallès (Vallès
Oriental Conty), Premià de Dalt (Maresme County), Alella (Maresme
County), and Gallifa (Vallès Occidental County) from the Province of
Barcelona; Sant Jaume de Llierca (Garrotxa County), Ripoll (Ripollès
County), Campdevànol (Ripollès County), Viladamat (Alt Empordà County),
and Sant Julià del Llor i Bonmatí (Selva County) from the Province of
Girona, in the North-Eastern part of Catalonia and Marçà, from the
Priorat County, in the Province of Tarragona (Southern Catalonia).
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POWERFUL figures including Unite’s Scottish secretary
Pat Rafferty urged Scots Labour leader Johann Lamont to provide
“positive reasons” why people should vote to stay in Britain.
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La petite phrase lâchée, hier après-midi, par Ban Ki-moon en conférence de presse n'est pas passée inaperçue... Selon l'agence de presse catalane, interrogé sur le processus...
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Un référendum sur l'indépendance de la Catalogne doit être organisé en 2014 par le gouvernement autonome.
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The declaration, approved by the region’s parliament in
January, described the 7.5 million Catalan people as “politically and
legally sovereign” and nationalists saw it as a first, symbolic step
towards independence.
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Spain's Constitutional Court on Wednesday declared illegal a sovereignty declaration by the northeastern region of Catalonia, which was designed to serve as a basis for a referendum on regional independence.
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That's an attack to democracy!
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The Ministère des Relations internationales, de la Francophonie et du Commerce extérieur conducts the Government of Québec's international involvement, with a view to promoting and defending Québec's interests and values...
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Interesting!
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At a time of painful austerity in Spain, corruption charges against figures like the former small-town mayor María Victoria Pinilla are stoking bitter resentment.
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Don´t say Spain. say Corruption
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En poste depuis plusieurs mois au Mali, la brigade Serval est commandée par le général perpignanais Barrera. Entretien.Le général Bernard Barrera commandant la brigade Serval au Mali...
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Catalans soldiers ... in the French Army, of course.
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Catalonia Independence explained to the World
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Great Speech... with flowerpower elements
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If you don't know calçots, you don't know your onions
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Learn about it!
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A time traveller hopping from Barcelona in 2008 to the same city in 2013 could be forgiven for thinking his TARDIS had jumped a few decades into (...)
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The Catalan independence process should not be seen as
Catalonia turning its back on the world, Europe or even Spain itself.
Indeed, while the short-term effects of a yes-to-independence vote would
certainly be disruptive, in the mid-to-long term the Catalan society
and political class see the nation firmly anchored to a federal Europe.
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Catalonia Independence explained to the World
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It is therefore our responsibility, of all those who want
to make our country a successful one, to help and support the only
suitable way to reverse the present situation which is a most
needed Unilateral Declaration of Independence made by the Parliament of
Catalonia as our best and major representative body.
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FANS of central finance and its scope for equalising
the regions, Labour have dipped a toe into reality by exploring fiscal
autonomy, writes George Kerevan
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Interesting!
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