Through a Catalan newspaper I read that Bernhard von Grünberg, a German deputy from the North Rhine-Westphalia landtag (one of the german regional parliaments) recently sent a letter to the leader of the European Socialist Party, Martin Schulz, urging him to involve the European Parliament to prevent another potential instability focus in Europe, especially after the Spanish Constitutional Court cut down the Catalan Statute that had been previously accepted by the Spanish Parliament. Mr Von Grünberg urged Mr Schulz to take action since winds of change seem to be blowing …

One of the first consequences of the Catalan Statute sentence passed last month by the Spanish Constitutional Court. The Catalan Welcoming and Integration Law says that immigrants who arrive in Catalonia will be welcomed in Catalan to acomplish this the Generalitat (the Catalan Government) offers free Catalan courses. Now the Spanish Ombudsman is appealing this law to the Spanish Constitutional Court and wants this to change so that they are welcomed in Castilian-Spanish instead (link in Catalan). This makes no sense since the language in Catalonia is obviously Catalan, not …

I recommend this excellent article on Catalonia recently published in Los Angeles Times written by Henry Chu.
It seems that international media are slowly realising that the best way to inform about the Catalan conflict is to get first hand information instead of the usual Spanish-biased point of view after just reading a bunch of newspapers published in Madrid. Serious newspapers can’t afford that lack of professionalism.
Let’s hope that slowly the international understanding of Catalonia’s struggle increases. It’ll definitely come in handy for all sides when the declaration of independence …

Us faig arribar un manifest signat per 17 membres de Reagrupament de l’estranger, agrupats a la Vegueria d’Exteriors, en representació dels 74 membres de la Vegueria i que expressa el nostre posicionament en referència als esdeveniments produïts darrerament a l’escena política independentista.
Els catalans residents a l’estranger, reagrupats o simpatitzants a favor de la independència, reunits dins de la Vegueria d’Exteriors, volem manifestar la nostra perplexitat a la fragmentació produïda en les darreres setmanes en torn a la candidatura unitària i transversal que proclami la independència al Parlament de Catalunya.
Des …