viernes, 28 de febrero de 2014
CATALONIA -- Geoff Cowling: "the people of Catalonia have the right to decide their own destiny" - VilaWeb
Geoff Cowling: "the people of Catalonia have the right to decide their own destiny" - VilaWeb:
Geoffrey Cowling was the Consul General in Barcelona for Great Britain during 2002-2005. On February 26, Cowling wrote a letter in the prestigious London economic paper Financial Times in which he defended the right of the Catalans to decide their future, in response to an article written by PP MP Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo. In the letter, he wrote that "Catalonia too is a 'nation' as defined by the estatut, an act passed by the Spanish parliament in 2006. To describe both nations as 'tribes' betrays a colonialist mind. " Cowling also refutes Àlvarez de Toledo's claims that Catalans have distorted historical facts, and after a quick tour through the Spanish Catalan relationship over the last 300 years says, "Catalonia did not voluntarily join Spain, it was brutally conquered."
