ERC have gone from being on their way to being the second Catalan party to being in danger of becoming irrelevant after the last two rounds of elections and has left Catalan independentism clearly underrepresented in the Catalan Parliament. It seems now that the party has finally come to the conclusion that it needs to change strategy since the current prioritizing the left wing policies over the independentism has proven disastrous. Also, ERC hasn’t been able to deal with the different ideological and power struggles from within which have progressively …
“What Catalans Want” is a book of interviews, made by Catalan MP and writer Toni Strubell, to relevant people from all aspects of Catalan society. From former President Jordi Pujol to economists such as Xavier Sala-i-Martin or Germà Bel. University professors like Salvador Cardús, former FC Barcelona President turned into politician Joan Laporta or former Barça player Oleguer Presas. Also people in the media business like Vicent Partal or Vicent Sanchís and others who, thanks to having taken active part in recent history, have a clear view of the best …
Francisco Camps, President of the Valencian Generalitat, has resigned. Camps, who recently won the Valencian elections with PP, has been in the spotlight for a complex case of bribes in which many party members are involved and what seems to be only the tip of the iceberg of the corruption that goes deep into the Spanish party’s branch in the Valencian Country.
Camps, who has led the siege to Catalan language in the Valencian Country for years by shutting down the Catalan public TV repeaters in the country or more …
Slowly the events are unfolding. Facts seem to be going in one direction while words go in another. We are witnessing the most openly “Catalanist” CiU so far, with more independentists than ever inside of it and holding the power in all the institutions in Catalonia: the Generalitat, the town halls, etc.. While in the meantime President Mas appears on the Wall Street Journal wanting to lead the recovery of the Spanish economy and agreeing with PP to approve this year’s Catalan budget in exchange for closing down, without …
After all the efforts to internationalize our cause it has become obvious that the Catalan struggle is not a minor claim from a few melancholic airheads who still believe in the long gone days. Even when it appears that the country’s sanity is in tatters due to the economic trembling that led to unpopular measures from the government, civil unrest, and an apparent situation of ongoing social confrontation, Catalans still fret about the unevenness of the legal contract that ties their nation to Spain.
Too often it is referred as foes …