Having your website hijacked by a fan of Mr Bean (although at the end it turned out it was not a formal intrusion attack) whilst media accross europe as well as some Member States such as the United Kingdom are mumbling about Spain’s capacity to lead the Union amid these times [...]
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The Spanish Government is playing the victim when it comes to making Catalan a normal language in Europe. As Ireland did with gaelic, Spain could simply ask the Council of Europe to accept Catalan as just another official language in the Union. The petition would need to be unanimously approved by all member [...] Many Catalans still fancy a good-hearted saver that will, in one way or another, help Catalonia to become an independent state or whatever we decide we want to be in the future. Not so many years ago, many –and this includes myself- thought that joining the European Union would be the key [...] Historically, Catalans have been very sensitive to other stateless nations, minor regions oppressed by powerful states and any other group of people with political, social or cultural problems. Thus, we have found ourselves joining campaigns in favor of minority languages, dismembered nations at the verge of being assimilated by the dominant nation [...] While Catalans discuss about never-ending statutory reforms, financing systems, fiscal deficits, and speculate about the upcoming sentence of the Spanish Constitutional Court, a small nation of just over 300,000 located just below the Arctic Circle is on a fast track to joining the European Union. Last year was terrible for the [...] |
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