Benvolguts,
Us
presentem un article del directe.cat sobre la reticència espanyola tan
contundent a permetre un plebiscit a Catalunya i la relliscada de l’Arrimadas.
L’article comenta un article/reportatge anomenat The Catalan Exit plan,
que afegim a continuació del primer.
Un
tast interessant del The Catalan Exit plan, explicant la por de Madrid a la independència de Catalunya amb
la possibilitat que molts altres territoris de mentalitat independent se
sentirien encoratjats si Catalunya s’independitza i es converteix en la República
Catalana:
Madrid
is determined to keep the kingdom united, fearful also that a Catalan
split would encourage the Basques, Galicians, Valencians and other
independent-minded regions to go it alone.
Mentides
a dojo. L’Arrimadas sembla del PPSOE:
Arrimadas,
of Ciudadanos, says Brussels has made it abundantly clear that any region of an
EU member country that chooses independence will automatically become a third
country and have to re-apply for membership — “and we know that there
are countries that take 10 to 15 years to get membership.” “We don’t want to leave the European Union for
even five minutes,” she told POLITICO by phone from Barcelona, citing the damage it would do to
the Catalan economy, the frustration it would cause ordinary people, and how unjustified
the whole independence push is given the high level of autonomy Catalonia
already has in areas such as education, health and security.
I
per que es vegi que som uns fatxendes en Puigdemont explica:
The way
Puigdemont sees it, once Catalan breaks with EU member Spain, it will exit the EU by one
door and come right back in through another because Brussels will be
desperate to hold onto an economically powerful region at the heart of Europe’s
culture and traditions.
Bé, llegim l’article en català I almenys els
paràgrafs intensificats de l’original en anglès:
9 DE MAIG DE 2016 11:35
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El prestigiós setmanari Politico publica un extens
reportatge sobre el Procés on nega que Catalunya sigui un afer intern
Inés Arrimadas ha destapat el motiu real que
s’amaga darrere la reticència espanyola tan contundent a permetre un plebiscit
a Catalunya que pugui desembocar en la plena sobirania. La cap de l’oposició al
Parlament ha dit en una entrevista que una hipotètica independència al
Principat, podria dur a una desintegració d’Espanya si això porta a celebrar un
“referèndum de secessió cada sis mesos a una part del país diferent”. Ni
Arrimadas ni el conjunt de l’unionisme solen mencionar la por al temut efecte
dòmino que acabi amb l’Estat per rebutjar el procés català, però a la dirigent
de Ciudadanos se li ha escapat i no a un mitjà qualsevol.
"Por a que la independència catalana
encoratgi els bascos, gallecs, valencians i altres"
Arrimadas ha fet aquestes declaracions a l’edició europea de Politico, un dels setmanaris sobre política més influents als Estats Units i també a la Unió Europea i amb més reputació per la seva imparcialitat. La publicació ha dedicat al Procés un extens reportatge avui que ha ocupat el principal lloc en portada del web durant hores aquest matí, on seguint la línia d’Arrimadas, afirma que “Madrid està decidida a mantenir el regne unit, per por a que la separació de Catalunya encoratgi els bascos, gallecs, valencians i altres regions amb mentalitat independentista a anar per lliure”.
Puigdemont diu que la UE s'esforçarà a mantenir Catalunya, tal com ho ha fet amb el Regne Unit
El reportatge, que només per la seva extensió i el setmanari on s’ha publicat ja es pot considerar un èxit per la internacionalització del Procés, inclou una entrevista al president de la Generalitat, on diu: “Ja no depenem d’ells [l’Estat], les eleccions espanyoles no són un factor decisiu en el procés d’independència català”. A més, Puigdemont ha afirmat que Catalunya ja està “emancipada” i que la UE estarà “desesperada” per mantenir el Principat dins la UE en cas d’independència: “No veig cap motiu pel qual Europa no hauria de fer el mateix esforç que està fent ara per a convèncer el Regne Unit a mantenir-se a la UE”. Mentrestant, la cap de l’oposició al Parlament diu que en quedaria fora i podria tardar fins a 10-15 anys a tornar-hi.
Politico contradiu les institucions de la UE i afirma que el Procés no és un afer intern
El text, que també inclou declaracions de Miquel Iceta, es refereix a Catalunya com a “bressol de la cultura mediterrània” i contradiu les tradicionals declaracions d’alts càrrecs d’Els 28 que parlen del conflicte territorial que planteja Barcelona com un “afer intern”: “Si el procés és irreversible o només una estratagema per negociar més autonomia sobre Madrid, és una qüestió existencial per Espanya i d’importància estratègica vital per la Unió Europea”. En aquest sentit, recull declaracions del professor d’ESADE José Areilza, que creu que fins ara les reivindicacions catalanes han acceptat només un millor tracte, però “no estic segur aquest cop”.
Arrimadas ha fet aquestes declaracions a l’edició europea de Politico, un dels setmanaris sobre política més influents als Estats Units i també a la Unió Europea i amb més reputació per la seva imparcialitat. La publicació ha dedicat al Procés un extens reportatge avui que ha ocupat el principal lloc en portada del web durant hores aquest matí, on seguint la línia d’Arrimadas, afirma que “Madrid està decidida a mantenir el regne unit, per por a que la separació de Catalunya encoratgi els bascos, gallecs, valencians i altres regions amb mentalitat independentista a anar per lliure”.
Puigdemont diu que la UE s'esforçarà a mantenir Catalunya, tal com ho ha fet amb el Regne Unit
El reportatge, que només per la seva extensió i el setmanari on s’ha publicat ja es pot considerar un èxit per la internacionalització del Procés, inclou una entrevista al president de la Generalitat, on diu: “Ja no depenem d’ells [l’Estat], les eleccions espanyoles no són un factor decisiu en el procés d’independència català”. A més, Puigdemont ha afirmat que Catalunya ja està “emancipada” i que la UE estarà “desesperada” per mantenir el Principat dins la UE en cas d’independència: “No veig cap motiu pel qual Europa no hauria de fer el mateix esforç que està fent ara per a convèncer el Regne Unit a mantenir-se a la UE”. Mentrestant, la cap de l’oposició al Parlament diu que en quedaria fora i podria tardar fins a 10-15 anys a tornar-hi.
Politico contradiu les institucions de la UE i afirma que el Procés no és un afer intern
El text, que també inclou declaracions de Miquel Iceta, es refereix a Catalunya com a “bressol de la cultura mediterrània” i contradiu les tradicionals declaracions d’alts càrrecs d’Els 28 que parlen del conflicte territorial que planteja Barcelona com un “afer intern”: “Si el procés és irreversible o només una estratagema per negociar més autonomia sobre Madrid, és una qüestió existencial per Espanya i d’importància estratègica vital per la Unió Europea”. En aquest sentit, recull declaracions del professor d’ESADE José Areilza, que creu que fins ara les reivindicacions catalanes han acceptat només un millor tracte, però “no estic segur aquest cop”.
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2. Catalan exit plan
In the past, moderates have dominated
Barcelona’s testy relations with Madrid. This time, it could escalate.
By
and
5/9/16, 5:30 AM CET
Catalan president Carles Puigdemont at the Generalitat palace in
Barcelona | Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images
In the mind
of Carles Puigdemont, Catalonia is already floating free from the rest of
Spain.
The president of the Generalitat regional
government came to power in January promising independence in 18 months, but
says Catalonia is already “emancipated” from the tortuous political process
that has deprived Spain of a government since inconclusive elections in
December. On June 26, Spain will hold the first repeat elections in its
modern democratic history.
“We
don’t depend on them any more. The Spanish elections aren’t a decisive factor in the Catalan
independence process,” the 53-year-old Catalan president told POLITICO in an
interview.
Whether this process is irreversible, or just a
ruse to negotiate more autonomy from Madrid, is an existential question for
Spain and of vital strategic importance to the European Union: a cradle of
Mediterranean culture, Catalonia’s 7.5 million people make up a sixth of the
Spanish population and nearly a fifth of Spain’s economic output.
“We aren’t waiting any more. We are taking decisions”
— Carles Puigdemont
Madrid
is determined to keep the kingdom united, fearful also that a Catalan split
would encourage the Basques, Galicians, Valencians and other
independent-minded regions to go it alone.
Encouraged by Mariano Rajoy’s outgoing
government, the Constitutional Court invalidated a 2014 referendum in
which 80 percent of ballots cast favored independence, though turnout was very
low as the main pro-unity parties boycotted the vote. In last September’s high-turnout Catalan election, 48 percent
of votes, but an absolute majority of seats, went to secessionist parties,
including Puigdemont’s center-right Convergencia.
From the
day he took power after three months of coalition wrangling, Puigdemont said he
has made it clear to Spain’s four biggest parties — now acting prime minister
Rajoy’s conservative Popular Party, Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists, Pablo Iglesias’
far-left Podemos and Albert Rivera’s centrist Ciudadanos — that Catalonia has
already embarked on its own separatist path.
“We aren’t waiting any more. We are taking
decisions,” said the former journalist and ex-mayor of Girona.
Adéu to Europe?
The 18-month countdown that Puigdemont declared
in January will culminate in elections for a constitutional assembly “for a
future Catalan republic” where Spain’s King Felipe will no longer reign, but
where the Spanish language and culture, and many residents who originate from
elsewhere in the peninsula, will thrive alongside the Catalan speakers, he
said.
Not, however, if the majority Spanish political
forces opposed to independence can help it, including the Popular Party, the
Socialists and Ciudadanos, the business-friendly party founded in Barcelona by
Catalan-born Rivera a decade ago.
Albert Rivera, leader of Ciudadanos and Spanish presidential candidate
in the June 26 general election, with Inés Arrimadas, the party’s leader
in Catalonia | Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images
Inés
Arrimadas, Ciudadanos’ 34-year-old leader in the Catalan parliament, worries it
could lead to the disintegration of Spain if there is “a breakaway referendum
every six months regarding a different part of the country.”
Born far away in Andalusia’s Jerez de la
Frontera, she took an interest in Catalonia as a girl, picking up a Catalan
dictionary when she was 10 and moving there nearly a decade ago. Identifying
herself as “Catalan, Andalusian, Spanish and European,” she singles out
European Union membership as the biggest flaw in the nationalists’ argument.
“We don’t want to leave the
European Union for even five
minutes” — Inés Arrimadas,
Ciudadanos
The way
Puigdemont sees it, once Catalan breaks with EU member Spain, it will exit the
EU by one door and come right back in through another because Brussels will be
desperate to hold onto an economically powerful region at the heart of Europe’s
culture and traditions.
“I see no reason why Europe shouldn’t make the
same effort it is now making to convince the U.K. to remain in Europe,” said
the president, contrasting the EU vocation of Catalonia’s “7.5 million European
citizens” with Britain’s lack of enthusiasm. Dismissing the destabilizing
impact of a Spanish breakup, he says the bloc is resilient: “The EU has an iron
ill-health.”
The European Commission appears keen to remain
above the fray. Puigdemont spoke to POLITICO during a visit to Belgium
last week when he met the premier of the Flanders region — a nationalist who
shares Convergencia’s separatist vision — but not Jean-Claude Juncker, whose
spokesperson said there was no room in the diary of the Commission chief, nor
any other commissioner.
Miquel Iceta, leader in Catalonia of Sánchez’s
Socialists, said Puidgemont’s difficulties getting face-time with EU leaders
was “a clear
sign that nobody in Europe is going to favor a change of frontiers, especially
one carried out unilaterally and illegally.”
Arrimadas, of Ciudadanos, says Brussels has
made it abundantly clear that any region of an EU member country that chooses
independence will automatically become a third country and have to re-apply for
membership — “and we know that there are countries that take 10 to 15 years to
get membership.”
“We don’t
want to leave the European Union for even five minutes,” she told POLITICO by
phone from Barcelona, citing the damage it would do to the Catalan economy, the
frustration it would cause ordinary people, and how unjustified the whole
independence push is given the high level of autonomy Catalonia already has in
areas such as education, health and security.
Hardliners
Puigdemont advises against pre-empting how
European countries will react “once Catalonia has taken a democratic decision,”
adding that he trusts “in the democratic maturity of the Spanish people, who
are today hugely more mature than their own political class.”
The coalition wrangling in Madrid wasn’t very
edifying, but it was complicated by the Catalan question. The PP, Socialists
and Ciudadanos all reject the challenge to national unity, which was one of the
main factors that prevented Socialist Sánchez — who came second in December —
from getting the support he needed from Podemos’ Iglesias, who said in
February: “It’s necessary to have a referendum in Catalonia.”
Catalonia has been “the elephant in the room”
in the Spanish coalition talks, Raül Romeva, the region’s foreign affairs
chief, told POLITICO in an interview last month.
Rajoy’s conservatives have traditionally taken
the hardest line. Puigdemont blames the PP’s influence for a 2010
constitutional court ruling that undermined Catalonia’s hard-won statute of
autonomy, which the region lost under the dictator Francisco Franco, recovered
when democracy was restored, and renewed in a 2006 referendum.
Former Catalan President Artur Mas stepped down
in January to facilitate a deal with radical-left independentists CUP. The
image shows Mas and successor Puigdemont as the latter takes office on January
12 | David Ramos/Getty Images
According to Puigdemont, that was the breaking
point for moderate forces like Convergencia, which were previously willing to
work with Madrid on more autonomy, rather than a divorce. “Thank you,
constitutional court, it all started with you,” he said.
The Socialists and Ciudadanos promise to win
back the Catalans by restoring dialogue if they lead or take part in a new
Spanish government after June’s elections. Opinion polls currently put the PP
in the lead but without their own majority again, meaning more months of
coalition negotiations are likely to ensue.
“In the end, it was always the moderates who
decided the outcome. I’m not sure about this time” — José Areilza, law professor
This worries Iceta of the Socialists. Every day
that passes without clear advances for Puigdemont’s agenda, more Catalans will realize
the separatist path is “doomed to failure,” he says. But at the same time, “the
more time passes, the harder it gets” for the nationalists to negotiate
anything less than complete independence. One Socialist proposal, for example,
is a referendum across Spain on moving to a federal system, which would give
Catalonia more autonomy.
José Areilza, a law professor at ESADE, a
business and law school in Barcelona, sees tension growing inside the
independence camp between pragmatic parties like Convergencia, who have proved
willing to negotiate in the past, and hardliners including some nationalist
leftists who are seen as a threat by the Catalan business community, and even
oppose EU membership.
“Since the end of the 1970s, we have had a long
tradition of pro-independence parties in Catalonia who demanded a lot, but in
the end were pragmatic and sat down with the Spanish government to negotiate a
better deal for the region and reach more autonomy,” said Areilza.
“In the end, it was always the moderates who
decided the outcome,” he said. “I’m not sure about this time.”
Diego Torres in Madrid contributed to this
article.
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