The essential point of the Congress pact was the institutional recognition of the Catalan language (and other territorial languages) in the Spanish...
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The dilemma of the exile: the last Spanish elections
The last Spanish elections have left the outcome in the hands of two actors, whom, for the sake of simplicity, we can call Pedro Sánchez and Carles...
Catalonia, Spain. Trapped in the nationalist narrative
Puigdemont's personal situation turns this party (Junts) into an anti-system movement, resolutely focused on fighting the state, cultivating its...
Foment del Treball (main Catalan employer’s association): the pact with Puigdemont in Madrid and the return of companies
Businessmen have been building bridges with pro-independence leaders for three years now. Catalan big business, the main protagonist of this flight...
Puigdemont is being sought to endorse a national legislature
On 27 October 2017, the president has a clear analysis. There is no social majority to defend the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, nor tools...
Paradoxes of the 23J elections: an independent Catalonia would not be pro-independence but socialist
There is nothing to suggest that Catalonia and the Basque Country will cease to be part of Spain in the near future. There must be a way forward that...
Pro-Independence has fallen short of one million votes for the first time since the start of the Procés in Catalonia
Its support has been falling since the most intense moments of the political conflict, but it has clearly accentuated this 23J. An increase in...
PSC socialist party prevails in Catalonia over an increasingly weak pro-independence movement
The Socialists, who won 19 seats compared to 12 four years ago, are consolidating their central position in Catalonia. But also the shift to the left...
Pedro Sánchez considers the independence movement in Catalonia an “outdated ideology”
The PSOE candidate reiterates his refusal to facilitate a referendum in Catalonia in exchange for his investiture
Letter to Carles Puigdemont
You have created a sanctuary of a sectarian Catalanity, which can never aspire to collective triumph because it responds to an essentialist vision...