Since its inception, the EU has followed a political process of integration in different stages, in which attempts have been made to strengthen its...
Category - Global & European News
Catalonia, Global & European News, OpenKat, Spain
Federalist gathering with Manuel Cruz: Democracy as a utopian horizon
Democracy is not just a set of formal procedures, it is much more than voting, and is a problem for democracy that it feeds more on tension than on...
Catalonia, Global & European News, Interviews and Opinions, Solutions to Catalan Crisis
Allowing future citizens to learn to think philosophically, no populism would take root in our societies
Governments: philosophy in the classroom, please! To govern is to prioritise, and in a society in which the gap between material and moral progress...
Indeed, there are many signs of disorientation among the citizens of the West. Perplexed, people oscillate between annoyance and dismay. And yet, for...
Catalonia, Global & European News, Spain
Time-out! Will Spanish politics be a car without brakes, as politics in Catalonia already is?
Spain, like Portugal, needs a period of political calm. Governments and parliaments should be able to devote all their energies to weathering the...
Catalonia, Global & European News, Secessionist Propaganda, Spain
The ‘procés’, dead and buried in Catalonia
I categorically state that the ‘procés’ is dead and buried, although the latter is hard for the separatists to recognise despite the ridiculousness...
"The EU is not the heaven its founders dreamed of, but neither is it the hell of Europe's eternal civil wars. The EU is a purgatory that manages, if...
Catalonia, Global & European News, Secessionist Propaganda, Separatism, Solutions to Catalan Crisis, Spain
Catalan nationalism must be saved from fanatics and crackpots
Have we not yet realised that conceiving life as a national confrontation has provoked two world wars? Can one deny the right to the nationality one...
Books, Catalonia, Global & European News, Secessionist Propaganda, Spain
“Control of institutions by the independentists has been brutal” in Catalonia
Jaime Malet was one of the first businessmen to warn of the negative consequences of the ‘procés’ in the Catalan economy. The independence movement...
Books, Catalonia, Global & European News, Secessionist Propaganda, Spain
“The ‘procés’ has caused the social and economic abrasion of Catalonia”
The UAB professor publishes ‘The Economy of Catalan separatism', where he analyzes the damage of the secessionist challenge, the "sucking dry" of...
