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8% of the population? The Economist, I can't believe you! The rally, according to the police figures, gathered 20% of the population, that is, 1.5M people. See your colleagues at the bbc:
This is what someone noted earlier:
Apparently the numbers were about 600,000, and the original estimates appear to have been hugely overstated. See:
which is based upon a study made by Llorenç Badiella (responsable del servicio de Estadística Aplicada de la Universitat Auonoma de Barcelona)
also see
While this second source is written in Catala, both are based on Catalan studies, not the underestimated central Government estimates that you infer.
So the quoted figure of 8 % from The Economist is probably correct
Well, I guess you were not there, Lord William of North Badalona...
Well, I guess you were not there, Lord William of North Badalona...
Correct. I wasn't there (or in Badalona). In any case, I can't see why being there would give you a better sense of the overall number of people there. But that's all by the by. The fact the march was massive, unprecedented and historic is undoubted. 600,000 is still a lot of people.
That's right. Obviously someone who was there wasn't able to count how many people was on the demonstration. Anyway, I had been on the previus demonstration in support of the Estatut (which was agreeded by all the Spanish media to be about 1.500.000 people) and I can assure I saw much more poeple on the Diada demonsration, Anyway, if you still want to say there were only 600.000 people, you should read the articles from El País or The Washington Post which all agreeded on 1.500.000 people.
Yes, but the 600,000 number is a subsequent and somewhat scientific revision from a highly credible source, no?
"Stop War" was 300.000 using that numbers, they say 1 million. Get relative numbers...
Thank you for your correction (I'm UhvWoC6nzp but I haven't figured out yet how to post my name). Still it is curious that the media did not correct the data of the rally against the Irak War (around 2004?), or the one against the terrorist attakh on Ernest Lluch (around 2002?). Figures were said to be over a million on both occasions. I have been in the three rallies (we Barcelona citizens have a thing for demonstrations,I guess it's the nice weather) and this time the rally had a very different feeling. First, many people came from the rest of Catalonia like never before, you could hear accents from everywhere. Secondly, many rally attendants were new citizens, mobilized for the first time (many colleagues at work who do not even hold political opinions attended, to my surprise).
The fact that the Spanish king, heavily under fire himself for chasing elephants, calls separatists "Chimera Chasers" doesn't help much to clear the air. He and his corrupt son-in-law are a symbol to the Catalan nationalists of what is wrong with Spain.
Spain is almost as diverse as Europe with a relatively rich north and poor south. The discussions on transferring power and money are not very different from the ones in the EU.
Independence is a big thing until things get shaky. According to recent numbers of the W.H.O. the number of suicides in the world doubles the number of homicides. It confirms that we are ourselves our biggest enemies.
Hopefully, Catalonia will not pay the highest price!
How the author can be so symple and say "many others are simply enraged by their tax money propping up poorer regions" when talking about populations feelings? Do you have a better reason to stop living with your neighbourgs than you're constantly robbed by them? Is money a less reason for you? Congratulations, then you're very rich and don't care about 16.000 €M but we, the catalans, we care and seems that the spanish wouldn't change the rules and go exploiting us for ever, we must stop this.
Catalonia has a strong economy because in the las 300 years was integrated in the Spanish market, before that, for another 200 years, even it was part of the Spanish monarchy, was very autonumus and had no access to the Spanish market, so was poor and with only 5% of the total population of Spain (now is 18 %) .
Now you are also 2o% richer (in percapita)than average in Spain, so is normal (and decent) to pay more taxes.
If the sistem is not excellent we can improve it, but to made more problems in this dificult moments, is not liking to see what is real.
Love to my Catalans friends.
Catalonia has a strong economy for many reasons,
-A common history and culture among the catalan territory that buid-up a union of people having the firsts banking institutions of the world and trading with the whole mediterranean countreis for years, not fighting with them as spaniards uses to do.
-A open minded culture, coming from a very rich history where fenicians, gecians, romans, etc.. played a very important role and that have minded us in the tolerance and acceptance of the "others". Thats why many people came to us in te XIX and XX th centuries to build-up what was the industrial and modern Catalonia together with us. Opposite of spaniards that always choosed the "manu military" way when arrived to other countries (south america eg).
-A working tradition that makes people rise-up and go every morning even in the worst conditions you can imagine, eg after the 1714 defeat.
And thats why from Madrid they always treid to stop us and even tried to comit (there are a lot of documents proving it) cultural genocide with us.
Dear Pedro. You are wrong with the assertion that "we can improve the system". Catalans tried it with the Estatut (voted by Spanish Parliament, voted in referendum in Catalonia, voted by the Catalan Parliament) and it was rejected by a Court (a politically divided and illegal court, since some members' term had expired). The rules are only applied when it is in the interest of the Central Government.
It is the Spanish government that has told that Catalan aspirations of having a higher say in its own issues (infrastructures, language and taxes) DO NOT FIT in the Spanish system.
Trying to decide on its own issues is the nature of politics and democracy of people. Catalans have the right to decide how they want to manage their lives. Love among Catalans and Spaniards will grow when they both have their own country and become close neighbors.
Spain should declare unilateral independence from Catalunya and Basque (what should they be called ?) nations , states , regions , tribes......
The Catalans are right in that they contribute to maintain poorer areas of Spain , same as rich people redistribute their wealth to the not so well off or same as Europe helped Spain for decades. This is what European social democracies are based on. The Basques and Navarra , for some historical treaty dating more than 100 years do not.
With 25% unemployment ( and rising) , banking meltdown and a lot of people suffering, can Spaniards not , at least temporarily, put aside their differences and look at everything they have in common, including their fabolous country with its great climate , diverse tradition, languages and culture and strive for a better future for all its citizens ?????
Do they not realize that separated , evrybody loses ?
Are there no real leaders in Spain that can unite them in their present emergency ?
Dear Paddy Murphy,
We have some excelent leaders in Spain, first, Rajoy has several salaries related to his antient post at galicia, and also claims two allowances for paying for his lodging in madrid. Carlos Divar, president of supreme court, and the "Consejo General del Poder Judicial",.... look in wikipedia, it is a shame for a country. Cospedal, Rajoy's right hand, has 5 different salaries (3 from the spanish state), and it is known that has gotten work for her husband paid by the state. Three finantial advisors of the king, have been in prison for fraud, and possible his son in law will finish similarly. He cannot be investigated or prosecuted because the constitution forbids it. Ms. Aguirre, made a special stop for the AVE (high speed train), a few kilometers outside Guadalajara, so that the land of her husband could be transformed into a house development. Bankia is in such a big mess, because it was the battlefield for power between Gallardon and Aguirre, and they are not acountable....
if we get rid of these people, we will be better off
I'd like to hear from The Economist what would be the economic viability of an independent Catalonia. Look at Kosovo and South Sudan: in both cases there are special political and economic interests abroad to have this states independent (Kosovo as a buffer territory against further Serbia's ambitions, South Sudan as a source of raw materials). But, how much have taxpayers elsewhere need to pay for independent Catalonia and what'd they can expect as a return?
No "taxpayers elsewhere" will need to pay for Catalonia. This is the main point of all this issue. Catalans want to pay their bills and stop paying someone else's. The economic feasibility of Catalonia is beyond doubt. The only Spanish basis for doubting about this future is the threat that Spain will block Catalonia to become a UE member and a comercial boycott. Both statements seem weak to me. Having a dynamic and open economy in southern Europe that becomes a regional powerhouse is what Europe needs to really start changing things in the over-subsidized south. Anyway, its only the opinion of the catalans that matter. Let them choose.
Regardless of how much "it hurts" The Economist and a small portion of the Catalan community (according to the polls less than 20% would vote against independence-the rest would either not vote or are not sure what to vote) to accept that Catalonia will soon be a new, sovereign EU member state, the fact of the matter is that there is no way back in the process of independence. The treatment on behalf of the central Spanish government to the Catalan people over the last years has been on a "win-lose" basis. Just as a reminder, when mentioning "how beautiful Barcelona is", every (and I mean EVERY) Spaniard regardless of beliefs answers back ...."if it weren´t for the Catalan". This to me sums up the deepest feelings of Spanish towards Catalan people. Their love (to the Catalan money and land) and hate (to the Catalans'identity). It's either love or hate guys....you can´t have both!
bye-bye love,
sorry, but your description of how other Spaniards feel about Catalonia is so simplistic, it's ridiculous. I am from Galicia and I love Catalonia (including the catalans!). Yet, that doesn't make me favour indepenence. I would be happy to consider more of Catalonia-generated wealth going back to Catalonia, and not to fund empty airports elsewhere; there you have a fair point. But could you please make a case for catalan independence without that ridiculous victimism about Spain.
The pro-independence party ERC and many nationalist associations and catalan people are trying very hard to intoxicate catalan public opinion with this feeling in support of their separatist goals.
Is surprising who widespread is this point of view in Catalonia. I am from Madrid and haven`t ever heard this joke you tell.
I am neither Spanish nor Catalan but lived more than 10 years in Madrid and approximately 3 in Catalunya. Maybe, it is only my more than 300 Spanish friends that make this joke ("Que bonito Barcelona...si no fuera por los Catalanes"). I personally love Spain and the Spaniards, but I think that Catalunya has been treated EXTREMELY unfortunately and without any respect at all levels (fiscal, political, social, etc.). The most unfortunate fact of all is that Spaniards do not understand how deep the disappointment of the Catalan people is. They are simply hearing but not listening...this is why I think there is no way back in the independence process.
"The direct causes of Catalonia's economic woes are recession and ruinous administration by previous regional governments. " Really?? This is a misleading statement to anybody reading this article. Where do you get that the money spent by regional governments has been the most wasted? The spanish democracy is full of examples of the spanish central government wasting money of bad investments in regional airports and high speed rails that have proven ruinous, and that are not decisions of the autonomies. Even the European Union has seen how the spanish central government was pushing the construction of a nonsense railway connecting Madrid and France through Castilla, instead of promoting the construction of the mediterranean corridor which is a joint european project.
example of catalan government wasting money - how about T2 the empty airport terminal... or the longest deepest metro in europe that now is "paused", half finished and useless. The fact is that the catalan government spent more than they had - if they get 5bn more from madrid who is to say they wont waste that too?
It would be worth for TE and interesting to readers to have an article on the catalonian education system. It is interesting how cliches are spread in catalonia and how the population has been manipulated for some decades.Catalans think they are misstreated by central government due to a systematic brain wash for years. It would be very interesting to hear a non Spanish opinion on this.
This is a funny comment. Unfortunately all too common among Spaniards. Those who do not think like them are brainwashed. The dangerous conclusion Spaniards draw from this is that Catalans, since they are all brainwashed, cannot choose by themselves. Who could in his right-mind don't want to be part of the great Spanish Kingdom? (Gibraltar? Basques? Catalans?). Let them vote!
The main problem we are facing in Catalonia is the great level of institutional corruption. Even CiU, the party governing Catalunya, is being investigated and has been force to pay 3 million EUR bail. This fact, together with the unpopular measures the Catalan Government is forced to apply, is the reason why Mr. Mas (Catalan president) has promoted the independentist issue. It is a smoke curtain.
You do not understand what has happened during last 20 years in Catalonia. Independentism started growing by then or earlier.
Do not you remember seeing at the old Wembley Stadium those flags with the start you saw last 11th of September on the streets of Barcelona. That was in London in May 1992
Catalonia is not the problem but part of the EU problem's solution. We need more efficient, smaller states, better co-ordinated and united, with fair, democratic and more transparent policies, better controlled by citizens. We the catalans believe in democracy, shown during the big and peaceful demonstration 11/9/12 and expressed with arguments by citizens. Spain is rejecting any talk, being kept constrained by and old post-franquism constitution from last century. And Europe will has to express as well if its mature enough to facilitate the solution, protecting democracy and its citizens.
Ferran GALI
We believe in democracy, and a demonstration in the streets does not have the value of the votes. Catalan Parliament is so far the only representation of the Catalan wills. Ten months ago, non indpependentist parties had more than 55% of the votes. This is considering that 100% of CiU votes are independentist, which is far from real. This is the real situation.
The solution is very clear. Spain must be allowed to vote in referendum if Catalonia wants to be independent or not.
It's very simple.
The solution is very clear. Spain must be allowed to vote in referendum if Catalonia wants to be independent or not.
It's very simple.
I agree with this and I actually think it would be better for a catalan indpendent state. They seem to forget that on day 1 of independence catalunya will be sitting beside and highly connected to spain. they better have very very good relations with them. They should not sneak over the line with a 51% vote in only catalunya and the rest of spain opposing. This would lead to so many problems. Better to wait for a few years and convince the rest of spain that catalan independence is a good thing. There is no rush - a independent country is not just for christmas, its for life
I think that Catalan people are old and smart enough (like the most of European people) to know the way to choose and the benefits or problems that may have in this difficult time. They should be free to vote without any threat and freely their way.
You just make me laugh! In past Catalan Elections, CiU clearly won, and adding ERC, IC and SI, because all this parties have given support to Catalonia's autodetermination and have ask for a Catalan State, this makes 56.14% to be exact!
Last polls say more than 51% would say yes to independence, and only 19% would say no. I think it is quite clear.
A referendum would solve all this, but Spain does not let to have a referendum. Well, antidemocratic Spain is convincing those who were still hesitating. Thank you ! We'll become independent anyway, pacific and democratic!
Mr Rajoy is working on a law to make of Spain a "unified market", for that the strategy of conservative goverment is to make new laws at state level to overcome those at "regional" level. But of course, the tolls in the motorways in Catalonia are not going to desappear, so a manufacturing company based in Barcelona shipping goods to Saragosse or València has an additional charge that a company based in Madrid does not have. Distances from both cities to Barcelona and Madrid are similar but lorries from Barcelona to both cities are charged by using the motorway but those from Madrid are not. So central government has its peculiar view of unified market.
Just to add a fact tolls are collected bey Abertis a Catalan Company. CAtalonia had highways in times, due to tolls, when central Spain started to pave roads. Nobody mention this "small" fact
Yes, but the main point is why some motorways are free and others not and why most of the non-free are far away from Madrid. Tolls in Madrid could be collected by a Castilian company if you do not like having a Catalan company collecting them. And why the first motorways are not free but the rest are ? if you think that way maybe you think that it is normal that travellers in UK have to pay the train tickets as was there where the first place Railways where built but the tickets in Spain should be free because RWs where built there later.
Just a mathematical correction to first paragraph:
"After a huge, peaceful march with flags and banners through the city on September 11th brought together an estimated 8% of the region's 7.5m population, a once-exotic idea has suddenly come to life."
The number of people marching in Barcelona was 1.5m according to official sources. That means the 20% of the population
Apparently the numbers were about 600,000, and the original estimates appear to have been hugely overstated. See:
which is based upon a study made by Llorenç Badiella (responsable del servicio de Estadística Aplicada de la Universitat Auonoma de Barcelona)
also see
While this second source is written in Catala, both are based on Catalan studies, not the underestimated central Government estimates that you infer.
So the quoted figure of 8 % from The Economist is probably correct
I cannot stop laughing! So u take Spanish and anti-independence numbers for granted! What a joke, what a laugh! It is a pity that The Economist did the same. Shame on you The Economist!
You could have exposed all the numbers if you wanted:
2 million people according to the Catalan Assembly (who organized the demonstration)
1.5 million people according to the police
0.6 million people according to the Spanish Government
And that's why the most of the people looks for the middle number, which is around 1.5 million.
But anyway, if there was only 0.6 million people, why are you so afraid then? Let Catalan to decide their own future. Catalan don't belong to Spanish. We are free men and women and we will decide as free men and women. I hope you don't have a problem with that! Thank you !
Dear Sr Mas
Writing as a northern European, I bring to your attention that over these recent past years, we have made incredible transfers of funds to selective parts of Europe, and especially to Spain. In fact, Spain has been the biggest beneficiary of EU funding. As Catalunya is a part of Spain, obviously these transfers have also been to the benefit of Catalunya.
With the changed economic climate, in the same way that Catalunya is now seeking a change to previously agreed funding arrangements with the central government of Spain, I suggest that the EU also seek to change existing financing arrangements, and immediately stop all transfers to Spain. After all, it is so unfair that our money has been squandered by irresponsible politicians*, who having wasted so much capital on unproductive capacity (the famous white-elephants) now seek even more money to stop themselves defaulting on their accumulated debts.
* many of whom have benefited through the cancer of uncontrolled corruption
The true fact is that these huge transfers to Spain (both from Europe) both from the UE and from Catalunya (more than 100.000Mio over 10 years) have not changed a bit the economic situation and efficiency of the Spanish economy. That means that the money transfer do not work. That is the perception in Catalunya. If Germany was in a deep economic recession, it would reconsider too its money transfers to other countries. Catalan transfers account for more than 8% of catalan GDP, way far more relative money than any other UE country or region do give away. Spaniards need to radically reform the politics and institutions in Spain and this is not feasible with the basque and catalan issues open. The best strategy for Spain would be to let basques and catalans leave (if they agree to democratically) and focus all their energy and political consensus in transforming a fund-receiving society into a dynamic market economy and a transparent democracy.
I can only provide my personal view, which is that we northern Europeans are tired of seeing how the funds that we transferred have been wasted. We do not single out Catalunya or any single autonomous region, but we are aware that there is tremendous inefficiencies in Spain being divided into 17 different mini-states.
As an example: across Spain, there are an average of 494 police employed for each 100,000 of inhabitants. The comparative figure in Germany is 301 police per 100,000 of inhabitants while in the UK it is 333 police per 100,000 inhabitants.
Is crime so rampant in Spain?? Or is there a huge overlap and duplication of effort with having the numerous forces?
This is only one of many examples, all arising because of the need for 17 administrations serving each of the 17 autonomous regions that make up Spain.
I agree with that vision. Spain needs to re-structure its government duplicities and inefficiencies. Believe me that the number of police officers is the smallest one (number of airports, city halls, high speed trains, public companies, nepotism...). The fact is that this re-structure will only be possible with solid political majorities. Catalans and Spaniards will hardly agree on anything. Better chances of doing it being two different political entities. Catalans reforming Catalonia and Spaniards reforming Spain. This is the only feasible scenario. Both entities being part of the EU and agreeing on a planned separation overseen by international mediators.
Based on the previous failures to undertake reforms, I fail to see why you believe that the Catalan government will undertake the required reforms were Catalunya to acquire 'independence'. If they did not previously, why once that Catalunya acquires 'independence'?
May I remind that it was the Catalan government that built Alguaire airport, which is just short of a folly. And pushed for the construction of the new terminal at Barcelona airport at a cost of over 5bn euros. This is an airport that currently has 3 runways, and had 34.4 million passenger arrivals/departures in 2011.
In comparison, London's Heathrow airport has only 2 runways, and with 69+ million arrivals/departures in 2011 handled more than double the volume of Barcelona.
It just seems that many decisions have been made solely based on the possibility that some % of any contract price may line someone's pocket.
Still, with an independent Catalunya, who is going to pay for the additional capital required by the various Catalan banks/cajas, who have required support from the FROB?
And make allowances for the real possibility that were Catalunya to become independent, many foreign based companies will move out.
Finally, overlooked by many, is that the central Government of Spain currently pays the pensions of the retired in Catalunya. With over 22% of the Catalan population currently retired, and that percentage growing rapidly, that is a very large and growing pension bill to pay.
Is an independent Catalunya going to have a better chance to resolve it's problems?. I think not.
I have the feeling that all those worries over the future of an independent Catalonia come only from Spaniards, which makes me wander if they are honest.
All the basis on the dark economic perspectives of a future catalan state are based on the threat that Spain will block Catalonia on becoming a EU member and an economic boycott. I do not see why these two things will happen, specially if the government of Spain will need to negotiate how much debt is Catalonia taking with the new state. My belief is that a negotiation will occur and that the separation will be peaceful and not traumatic.
Regarding the mismanagement of a future Catalonia is something for the catalans to decide, but I doubt that public finances can be managed worse than it had been managed in Spain these last years. Useless airports, politically wasted banks and an aging population is unfortunately something Spain can not give lessons on.
I am not Spanish, I am northern European.
My genuine concerns arise because I believe that the utopia of an independent Catalunya will not be the final outcome. In the meantime, a lot of political time is spent that should be more usefully spent addressing the real challenges of the high level of unemployment and the failure to keep the higher educated and skilled, who increasingly are going to Germany/UK/Brazil - anywhere else that offers opportunities. This exodus will have very grave long-term consequences.
There are many outside of Spain who do not wish that Catalunya becomes a separate state, in part because this may incite separatist movements in other countries within Europe. The most obvious are Belgium and Scotland, but there are also concerns within France about a separate Basque and Catalan country destabilising their own territory.
And yes, the future management of Catalunya might be determined by Catalans - but who is going to pay part of the final price? As previously, it is external capital that will be needed - ie the taxpayers money of Germany / UK / Scandinavia.
I was mugged while visiting Barcelona. It seemed that no one knew where the police station was, and it took several times with the taxi driver asking before we got to the place. Once there we had to wait in line as other tourists also had to make their report. Only one of the police could speak english, but that was nothing compared to how long it took to complete the report, which we needed in order to get a replacement travel document from the consulate.
Once we got to the consulate we were told that street theft from tourists happen all the time, and that Barcelona is the crime capital of the world. We got back to the ship and found several other passengers had also been robbed.
Not sure where all those policemen are working, as sure as hell we did not see many on the streets when we were there.
I think that Catalonia, the Basque Country and Navarra do not belong in Spain. Thus, the question is not whether these regions should be asked about their independence but rather that they should be expelled from Spain at the earliest convenience. Clearly, the three have brought nothing but trouble to Spain after Franco's death. Their continuous selfish demands have been destabilizing Spain's politics all along. The rest of Spain, and that would include Catalonia, subsidizes the Basque Country and Navarra's abusive tax systems. These two also brought their terrorist group that has killed almost 1000 innocent people and injured thousands more. Last weekend, Spanish newspaper El Pais published the results of a poll that showed that the vast majority of Spaniards in no uncertain terms want Catalonia to be independent. And I am pretty sure that a similar poll would provide equal results for the case of the Basque Country and Navarra. It's about time that Spain finds a little bit of peace. First it had dictators and, after the death of the last one, it's had Basques and Catalans. Enough is enough. In this particular case, neither the rest of Spain, nor the regions want to continue their path together. Spaniards, Basques and Catalans will be better off after each follow their own path.
Do you count as innocent people Melitón Manzanas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melitón_Manzanas) or Carrero Blanco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrero_Blanco)?
Don't you know that not a single penny is transferred from the rest of Spain to the Basque autonomous regions? (both Basque Autonomous Region and the Foral Community of Navarra collect their own taxes and then pay a % to central government in concept of defense, foreign issues, justice, etc.).
Of course. ETA had no legitimacy whatsoever to kill anybody, not even those two. ETA is a self-appointed terrorist organization. A bunch of thugs whose only argument is the killing of innocents cowardly.
The rest of Spain subsidizes those two regions in a very subtle way and it has been made evident with the discussions about Catalonia. If all Spanish regions where to have a mechanism like those two, the Spanish administration could not function. What that means is that the money these two transfer to the rest of Spain doesn't cover what it costs the rest of Spain to provide for services such as defense, foreign affairs or infrastructure. Accounting tricks don't hide that fact. So that's how the rest of Spain subsidizes them: by not billing these regions for the actual cost of the services provided. And then there is Navarra, a region that for more than 15 years has been getting TVA money (ie IVA) it shouldn't have had from the Volkswagen factory. It has been estimated it got ~ 400 million euros in illegal TVA payments (that's 10 % of Navarra's annual budget). So, in Spanish that's a so called "timo de la estampita"; enough is enough. It's about time the rest of Spain gets rid of the Basque and Catalan scum.
The most important cause of Catalonia's economic woes is not recession and ruinous administration by previous regional governments, it is the fact that Spain steals 16 to 22 billion euros (depending on economists) each year. With all this money an independent Catalonia would become much richer. But that's not all. Economic and infrastructure decisions from the Spanish government damage even more the Catalan economy. Just to give some examples: Barcelona's airport cannot have direct flights to some countries because Spain has signed many agreements that this direct flights can only be in Madrid and this can affect business that wants to be installed in Catalonia. Another example is Barcelona's harbour, that should be connected with trains to Europe, but it is not because Spain doesn't give the permits to build a few meters of tracks that would connect the harbour with the rest of the train system, and now that China wants to seriously increase exports to Europe through Southern European harbours, and specially Barcelona (Hutchison). And I could go on forever. And we are talking about economics, I'm not talking about language, culture, politics... because this is "THE ECONOMIST", and I just wanted to give you some important information that you are missing ang you should add to your article. Thank you.
Catalan pro-independence parties and associations are doing a good job at presenting a biased picture of the spanish and catalonian economic reality. Everybody in Catalonia talks about the 16 billion euros in transfers to Madrid. This figure comes from a 2006 study, in the middle of the spanish real state boom. The real figure now is problaby a half. Rumours like the one you say about direct flights banned to Barcelona is just nonsense. Anyhow, many people believes them in Catalonia because certain catalan media (even government media) support them. A lie repeated many times becomes truth. That has been widely used throughout history.
At that time it was probably the 22 billion euros. In 2009 Spain recognized almost 15 billion, and a lot of economist said hat the system Spain used to calculate wasn't realistic and the number should be higher. There was an important discussion about it.
But can u answer the other points I wrote? You know, China wants that 30% of all exports to Europe are through Barcelona's harbour. Now it is only the 2%. This would represent more billions of euros every year for Catalonia. Stop hiding the truth!
And anyway, even Catalonia was going to be poorer than now (just to write it looks like a joke!), it is a catalan people RIGHT TO DECIDE. Of course, right to decide, frredom and democracy don't seem words for an Spanish mind. What a pitty, for the most of the Nations, including Catalonia, this is the most important, more important than even economics. Thank you!
There are some Catalans friends around here who seem to be slightly misguided about international law From the point of view of international law, a unilateral independence is only allowed in cases of decolonization - and by no stretch of mind Catalonia has ever been a colony- or because a minority is denied its basic rights. Anyone who is not blind to the reality of Catalonia in the last 35 years can very easily see that the right of the Catalans to use their language, for instance, is not only not forbidden, but actually encouraged by the local authorities and the same goes for having their own police, educational system and all in all a greater degree of autonomy than the one accorded, for instance to Scotland or Corsica or other regions in other European states. In fact the Catalan rights are enshrined in the Spanish Constitution as is the case with the rest of the Spanish autonomous communities. So by current international law, a unilateral secession would be illegal because it does not fit within the two cases when it is allowed. Since it would be illegal and would run counter to the rights of the rest of the citizens of Spain ( who also have their rights is not it?) a Catalan state could not be recognized by the European Union. Spain will keep on being a member of the EU, but an illegal Catalan state will not. And even if its recognized by some countries, It will still have to apply for becoming a new member of the EU because the laws of succession among States very clearly say, as does international practice, that membership of an international organization is not automatically accorded to a seceding State. Thus, Catalonia, which as a part of Spain belongs in the EU, as an independent state will find itself outside the EU, the euro, the Internal Market and the Schengen space. Even so, there are still independent minded Catalans who would say that even outside the EU Catalonia would be a viable economy, but the fact of the matter is that no emerging markets like China or Russia will recognize or trade with Catalonia for the same reasons that they do not do it with Kosovo, because neither Moscow nor Beijing accept unilateral independences.
As to some comments about Catalonia being oppressed , robbed and denied of its basic rights by Spain, well, I am sure that anyone visiting Barcelona right now will see hundreds of thousands of chained, malnourished, begging , tortured Catalans languishing in Las Ramblas, forced to kiss the Spanish flag and chant the Spanish national anthem ( which by the way has no words). Frankly speaking, when you see so many parts of the world really suffering from oppression and hunger the attempt by some Catalans to portray themselves as victims of countless oppressions is really, really ridiculous.
The independence of Catalonia will be a decolonization process. 300 years late, to be precise.
How about Kosovo, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia,... Spaniards still think in terms of XIX century (colonies, armies, kings,...). The map of Europe has been constantly changing in the last 20 years and will still change in the next 20.
Complutense it is very easy, let the population speak and then we will see. To do so in any modern state there is something called "referendum", so let's ask the society and if the majority wants to leave then I believe, a democrat as you probably are, would not have any problem to accept a secession. If Spain was a responsible country with responsible politicians then they should face the situation, include the possibility of a referendum in the constitution and accept the results as they are. Actually if we had a country with this level of tolerance, open-mind and modernity we would not probably be where we are now.
As per your last paragraph I will not even enter to reply all this demagogy.
The decision of being independent or not belongs exclusively to Catalans.
Obviously, common sense and human decency implies that other Spanish citizens be consulted and their respectable interests be protected in any case.
Whatever the final decision to be made by Catalans, I, neither a Catalan nor a Spaniard but a great friend and admirer of them all, think I speak for all Europeans of good will to say that Catalans, whether independent or not, are greatly valued members of Europe.
We all wish you well and may your and yours only decision, whatever it may be, bring you the happiness and success your civilization so much deserves.
Mr Mas was asking to collect all the taxes and negotiate the part to be transferred to Spain. If Catalonia is getting resources from Spain, this proposal would be stupid from the catalan point of view, and it should be immediately accepted by all other spanish regions. This is not the case. Mr Mas got a NO from Mr Rajoy, while he had the people of catalonia at his back.
While Catalonia spent too much in recent years (as Spain did, btw), it is also true that to much money is leaving Catalonia, and Spanish government is not investing here. For example, the mediterranean corridor (international railway gauge), a european priority, is stalled, while in Madrid the one and only is the central corridor including a 50Km tunnel below the Pyrenees.
And please, a lot of separatists in Catalonia are not nationalists, they simply use economic reasons. In contrast, I do not know any spaniard who is not a nationalist.
I don't think so , separatists!
A famous survey made last week in the whole of Catalunia found out that 70% of nowadays Catalan independentists base this view on "economic reasons" while only 30% in "ideological reasons".
This false myth that Catalunya as an independent state will perform better economically must be attacked and denied in order to stop this separatist attempt by the Catalan Regional Government, who is struggled by their own debt and is currently asking for a bail-out in order to get money from the Government of the country they are trying to leave, ironically.
A lovely spaniard democrat. Thanks sir. With that kind of comments you make easier the process
Economical performance of Catalonia as an independent state is not a false myth; it's an uncertainty. Nobody really knows what would happen but, actually, that is far from the point. The thing is, we (catalans) prefer trying on our own than continuing being choked and insulted. We've tried for many years to no avail, and it's proven it's not a matter of politics but of respect.
"We (catalans) prefer trying on our own"
NO. YOU (PART OF CATALANS) may have that opinion. I (PART OF CATALANS ASWELL) have a different opinion. It is insulting that you atribute to the whole of Catalans your particular vision about our land's history and reality.
Yes, you are totally right, my phrasing was unfortunate. But I guess you got the idea, as anyone minimally able to read between the lines would have. You have every right to prefer being choked and insulted.
My sincere apologies.
I sympathise. We Scots are becoming increasingly frustrated and angry about the separatists here claiming to speak for all Scots and about the way the media keeps representing their views as the views of Scotland. The majority of us do not want to leave the UK. When will a major news channel bother to mention that to the rest of the world?
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Temescal Canyon turns program around Titans celebrating a league title one year removed from a last-place season
LAKE ELSINORE ---- Jessica Nelson is used to dealing with stress by now. The about-face she has directed with Temescal Canyon's girls soccer program hasn't relieved it much, either.
Sure, the league losses that piled up last year have become wins. Yes, the Titans have celebrated their first title since 2003.
That hasn't made life any easier on the second-year coach. Not even after the Titans legitimized their 2010-11 campaign with a midseason victory over defending Sunbelt League-champion Lakeside.
"My husband's first words to me were, 'How does it feel to have a target on your back?'" Nelson said. "I said it felt great ... but I've never been more stressed in the season."
Not that Nelson and the Titans haven't enjoyed every minute of it.
A year removed from a one-win season in the Southwestern league, Temescal Canyon stormed to the top of the Sunbelt League, winning its first nine matches in the circuit before suffering its lone loss last Friday. But even that 3-2 loss to the second-place Lancers couldn't put the brakes on the momentum of a team making a triumphant return to the postseason under the direction of a young coach leading a young team.
"Last year wasn't so great," said forward Silvia Beas, one of three seniors who'll be on the field when the Titans (12-9-2, 9-1) open the CIF Southern Section Division V playoffs on Friday against the San Bernardino-La Quinta winner. "But this year we've improved so much. We came from being at the lowest to being champs ---- being No. 1. I'm so proud of the team and so happy that this happened my senior year."
Nelson, of course, is at the center of this revival.
A former NCAA Division I recruit in soccer, she had her fifth knee surgery shortly after graduating from Oregon and she took her first varsity coaching gig with the Titans shortly after becoming a mother. With the Titans, Nelson made discipline and accountability a top priority when she took the position last season and her new players took her mandates to heart throughout a one-win season in their final Southwestern League campaign.
Sure, Temescal Canyon missed the playoffs yet again. But the Titans improved throughout the season while looking to the future and thriving off the field.
The team's cumulative grade-point average, for instance, was recognized as the highest for a girls soccer team in Riverside County, Nelson said.
"From the years before, I felt like this program wasn't serious enough," Beas said. "It wasn't organized. ... Once Nelson came in, everything fell into place. ... She always stays on top of us, always tried to make us a better team and never gave up on us. She's always pushing us to do our best."
Nelson's preparation for the 2010-11 season included scheduling a tough preseason this year against Division I and Division II teams, despite the team's move down in division and league against like-schools. The Titans took their lumps then only to be rewarded during a Sunbelt League campaign that has seen them develop into one of the circuit's more offensive teams.


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Nasty, Seed-Shooting Weed -- What is it?
My perennial garden has been overrun with a weed I have never seen before. I fear that it came in with some mulch or with a something I recently planted. See pix -- it is the most rapidly spreading monster I have ever seen and when I pull it out, it shoots horrible little seeds straight into my eyes.
I have patiently pulled every one of the evil things out bu he roots (it took about 36 hours) but my beautiful beds are now full of those nasty seeds. I have two questions:
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Is this weed universal? I struggle with it here too. Good news is, I'm rid of it (after years of not letting it go to seed) on all but one side where the neighbor didn't ever weed until about June - the bed on that side is full of the seeds and every time I put a shovel in the ground it's just a matter of weeks before I find more germinating.
It grows through winter here, will even set seed before Spring so I don't dare let up on my weeding....I'm sorry yours got ahead of you and set seed. Best thing you can do now is mulch, cover up those seeds. And try to stay on top of it from now on, keep a diligent eye for those tell tale little white flowers. (common name for it here is shot weed)
Yup, bittercress, aka shotweed. The picture is good enough but then I just spent all day pulling them out. Universal; if you don't have that particular species, there are about 30 other look-a-likes so no-one has to do without. But the roots are not deep and if the soil is damp it is pretty easy to pull up.
Here is a link that might be useful: Cardamine hirsuta - hairy bittercress
Yep, I think I have more of it than grass in my poor yard. New house, neglected yard... It is just about all I can think about--how to get rid of these weeds. And now that they are shooting seed whenever I walk within 10 feet of them I'm in trouble. What to do? Pull them and then pull them again when the seeds germinate? It will literally take all day to do that!
I used to do battle with Shotweed every summer, all summer. Until I discovered it is DELICIOUS in salads. Try it, I know you'll like it. Pull with roots, use a scissors to cut the rootball off, rinse, toss in a salad. Yummmmmm!!! It tastes just like watercress (nasturtiumy, peppery)


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Mom and entrepreneur Cindy Hartog of Westport, CT, started Cindy's Sous Chefs after discovering her passion for the culinary arts. We sat down with Hartog to find out what inspires her, how she got the business started, and what advice she has for other creative moms.
Cindy Hartog didn't follow a very direct career path. With early degrees in film and television and a Masters in Educational Theater, she could have easily become a starving artist. Quite the opposite came true. After getting married and having three children, she decided to go back to school to get a degree in culinary arts. As if baking her career, she mixed the main ingredients - theater, education, and food - to create Cindy's Sous Chefs, a cooking-events business specifically designed for children. Whether it's a cooking class or a birthday party, Cindy holds her young audience's attention by injecting a dramatic flair into every event. No one ever falls asleep in their soup when Cindy is in the spotlight.
Can you tell us a little about your background?
I'm originally from Manhattan. I went to NYU and got my undergraduate degree in film and television, then went back and got my Masters in Educational Theater. I would have gone into food at the time I went to college but it really wasn't very popular then. I did a lot of theater, and tried to work professionally for a while, but the rejection was a little too much for me. I worked for a company called The Creative Arts Team, which was a private organization that developed educational programs. I worked with a partner and we would go out to schools in the Bronx and in Brooklyn and do workshops to increase learning skills and self-image. When I moved to Westport, I taught pre-school kids at Temple Israel on and off for 14 years.
In 2005 you went back to school for your culinary degree. What prompted that decision?
My father always wanted to go to Paris but he became ill and never did get the chance to go. It hit me that life is short - and if you're going to dream about something forever and it never happens, then it's a waste of precious time. So I told my husband I wanted to go to culinary school. It meant leaving at 4:30 in the morning and him having to take the kids to school, but he was fine with that.
How did the idea for Cindy's Sous Chefs come about?
At Temple Israel, I did a lot of cooking and drama with the kids. When I left to go back to school I had students who didn't want to see me go, so the parents asked if I'd do a cooking class. As the cooking classes started to grow, I came up with a birthday party concept, which has really taken off. I probably do three birthdays a weekend.
Can you explain how you combine food and performing at these birthday parties?
I have different party themes. For example, if we do Italian, we'll make pasta dough from scratch with a beautiful old-fashioned Italian hand-cranked pasta machine that all the kids get to try. We'll make homemade tortillas at a Mexican party. There's a Japanese theme and we'll make dumplings from scratch. During the party, we'll do a mock television show along the lines of a Food Network program. I'm the host of the show, the guests are the audience, and the birthday child is the guest star. I interview them and they take questions from the audience. It's all very improvisational, but the birthday kids love it. They get to be the center of attention. There are so many birthdays where you don't even know who the birthday child is.
Why do you think the combination of cooking and performing has worked so well for you?
I think it's an adrenaline thing. Cooking for a group is just like performing for a group. You get this positive feedback. It fulfills the need to get applause and hear people say that you did a great job.
Do you enjoy working with children?
Being with kids comes naturally to me. My patience level is higher than anyone else I know. I'm basically a kid in an adult's body. I may be forced to live in an adult world with adult responsibilities, but working with kids allows me to be one myself again.
How do your children get involved with Cindy's Sous Chefs?
My 16-year-old, Danielle, is my permanent assistant. She pretty much does everything with me. My youngest, Deanna, helps out with kids who are younger than she is. Most parents love the idea because their kids like having the older kids there.
Any words of wisdom for moms wanting to start their own business?
This economic climate may not be a great time to do it, but then again, I don't believe in putting things off because we don't know what tomorrow brings. If you've got the energy, the personality, the zest, the perseverance, and the creativity, then opening your own business is for you.
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If you're a sex-trade worker, human rights advocate or a citizen with a libertarian streak, the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to strike down the nation's prostitution laws amounts to an early Christmas gift.
If you're a social conservative or otherwise morally opposed to the idea of exchanging money for sex, Friday's unanimous decision -- which declared bans on brothels, solicitation and living off the avails of prostitution unconstitutional -- is nothing short of a major setback.
Most people sit somewhere in the middle of the debate. As much as conscientious Canadians can't stand the idea of sex-trade workers becoming victims of violence due to antiquated laws, they also aren't crazy about the idea of a legal brothel opening up between the 7-Eleven and the three-for-one pizza joint.
If the Canadian sex trade is fully legalized, as it very well may be next year, prostitution will replace cellular towers and new condo developments as the ultimate NIMBY issue for Canadian cities.
This is because the Supreme Court, in its laudable effort to protect vulnerable women, has just tossed a thermonuclear hot potato into the lap of every municipality in the nation -- the question of how to regulate a sex trade nobody, including the well-intentioned harm-reduction types, want to see in their backyards.
The federal Conservatives have been given a year to come up with a brand-new set of laws governing the nation's sex trade. If they choose not to do so, prostitution in Canada effectively will become legal.
What that means is every Canadian municipality will be confronted with a variety of regulatory headaches. What areas would be zoned for prostitution? What sorts of hours would legal brothels -- which could simply be one woman or man, working out of his or her own apartment -- be allowed to keep?
Would there be limits on the numbers of brothel employees? What sort of signage would be allowed to advertise the services on offer? What role would a city play in licensing these establishments? What penalties could the city face for refusing to regulate the sex trade at all?
The cash-strapped City of Winnipeg, to name but one example, is in no way looking forward to the prospect of regulating such a complex and controversial industry.
"Speaking personally, I don't think this is something the city would want to get into regulating," said St. Vital Coun. Brian Mayes, chairman of council's protection and community services committee, which would wind up with the sex-trade file if prostitution is fully legalized.
To be clear, the city wouldn't be getting into a new industry. Winnipeg already regulates the sex trade by licensing four body-rub establishments, the so-called massagists who work within them and escorts who work in a variety of locations.
In 2014, massagists and escorts working in Winnipeg must pay a $263 licensing fee, which covers the cost of keeping tabs on the whereabouts of these workers, who by and large are women. The city also charges more than $4,000 for the right to operate a body-rub parlour, which is not allowed to imply sexual services are on offer.
If required to regulate a fully legal sex trade, the same cost-recovery principle would presumably apply. The question is whether the most vulnerable, legal sex-trade workers -- adult women suffering from addictions and mental illnesses -- would submit to licensing or pay the accompanying fee.
There's a legitimate fear the legal sex trade would simply create an underground economy for cheaper, unregulated sex. And a legal sex trade would not immediately eradicate underage prostitution, which in Winnipeg primarily victimizes aboriginal kids.
In theory, a legal adult sex trade would free up police resources to combat the sexual victimization of youths and children. But some organizations that work with teens at risk are not convinced of this result.
A legal sex trade runs the risk of legitimizing exploitation, said Tammy Christensen, executive director of the Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre, which works with kids at risk in the North End.
"People believe this lifestyle is a choice. We know from the people we work with that isn't the case," she said, stating the average sex-trade worker is forced into prostitution by the age of 13.
Many aspects of the Supreme Court decision are laudable. It make no sense to prevent sex-trade workers from hiring protective bodyguards, assessing their safety by talking to clients or working in a safe environment, such as their home.
The danger is the responsibility to protect sex-trade workers will be downloaded completely to municipalities, which struggle to deliver existing services. Right now, the City of Winnipeg isn't up to the task.
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Great locationPosted Mar 13, 2015
Pros: Location
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Location: Beach, bus tour.
Great location, breakfast disappointing, glad we didn't stop at sister hotel as it is not worth walking for. Room clean and shower nice and powerful, staff helpful. Hop on/off bus tour got one for free at reception
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Reasonable Rates and close to the beach and restauPosted Mar 4, 2015
Location: The location of this hotel to the boardwalk to get to the beach was perfect!
Pleasant Experience, friendly staff. Room was nice, clean and roomy. The bar and restaurant staff was also very nice and food was very good! Loved sitting on the porch every morning enjoying the free continental breakfast....which was very good with adequate choices! .....including very good coffee and juice. We also enjoyed lunch their which was excellent!
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Could use some renovation , Hotel staff pretty friendly and yes you have to pay for parking, 25 dollars every time you need your car plus tips or another option you have a parking lot 2 blocks away and you still have to pay 25 a day. overall i would stay again yes.
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this is an old hotel. The rooms are small and the real estate is expensive. It is a pretty good value for a perfect location. It is clean and the staff is very good. If you want swanky and expensive, the Betsy is three doors down and three time the price. If you want location and convenience at a reasonable price, stay at the Penguin.
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Excellent location close to the beach, good quality breakfast and drinks included. For an amazing treat, book room 401 with a rooftop patio where you can lounge shielded from wind while overlooking the ocean. Recommend this deco charmer with modern conveniences!
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Economic growth in Vietnam was resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear why. Impacts on employment and poverty are also disputed. We develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium model to decompose growth and distributional outcomes. Results indicate that the 2008 commodity crisis raised employment and reduced poverty by favoring labor-intensive exports. The 2009 financial crisis reversed these gains and pushed a million workers into unemployment and 3 million people below the poverty line. Overall, the crises and government stimulus package left growth and poverty in Vietnam virtually changed from a baseline (no crises) path.
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