2014-05-25T16:25:11Z https://www.taurillon.org/Goodbye-Spain-Hello-Europe,05712#comment19904 2014-05-25T16:25:11Z

<p>Catalan and Spanish Nationalisms are both opposite to federalism.</p> <p>The article is a bit biased. Certainly the separatism has nothing to do with the unfortunate words and actions of Education Minister Ignacio Wert. It is a forgotten movement from the XIX century fueled now by certain politicians which blame the crisis to the central government, they want to increase their own power, and citizens are tired of suffering and want to believe that another reality is possible.</p> <p>The independence of catalonia (including south of france, alghero (IT), Valencian Community and the balearic islands, which non of them agree) responds to a plan orchestrated since the end of the Franco's dictatorship and the regain of the democracy in the beginning on the 80's.</p> <p>The perfect example is an elastic band. With Franco, only Spanish flag and language were allowed, and fake history was taugh. Today, after 30 years of the nationalist ruling in Catalonia, the situation during the dictatorship has been reversed : Spanish language is no longer being taugh at school, and children get indoctrinated in fake history as well.</p> <p>The reality today is that this movement is harming more than doing good. I am from the Valencian Community, speak proudly Catalan (called Valencian in my region) and I care about preserving our roots and identity. But fooling citizens into decimononic conceptions of never existing nations, creating borders were they are not, and putting brothers against each other is the oposit of my notion of federalism.</p> <p>It is not so easy as it may seem from ouside : powerful goliath is bad and people struggling for democracy. It is more about manipulation, deception and the confrontation of the Spanish Nationalism of Madrid against the Catalan Nationalism of Barcelona. None of them defending the Federalist approach.</p>

2014-01-19T12:39:18Z https://www.taurillon.org/Goodbye-Spain-Hello-Europe,05712#comment19252 2014-01-19T12:39:18Z

<p>United States of Europe ? Same role as Massachusetts ? Is this serious ?</p>