7 contra 155? - Editorial - VilaWeb
Seven against 155?
Today explained in VilaWeb could happen that the EU sanctions against Spain if it went over the controversial Article 155 applies against Catalonia and even more if you try to apply Article 8. Only the description of a legal mechanism and needless step deducting would be no automatism. But if it's a threat, that of others too. Especially considering that the European Union precisely is always used in Article 7 in cases of constitutional clauses incompatible with democratic values (Hungary and Romania) and in cases of violation of the rights of national minorities (in France and Austria). Both situations coincide, at the bottom of motivation, with the Catalan case.
In recent months we have been able to follow a handful of very interesting initiatives that exemplify that after nine N-Catalan discussion of the issue has come to some European states decisively. The historic pronouncement of the Danish parliament, the session in which the Irish parliament invited the government to explain the Catalan independence process, the demand for more than thirty members of the Council of Europe to discuss the case or statements Catalan Political several countries reveal that the Catalan case folder is already a European projection.
Spain seems blinded by faith in the superiority of its laws, has not yet understood this part of the game. Better. Since it is found. It is found by the side defending the democratic values of the European Union or the side of the defense of secession as a remedy. This is another precedent that surprising that the Spaniards did not take into account. One thing: the time to recognize the independence of Kossove, most Western states mentioned as just cause of independence upon the dissolution of independence from Serbia, which, incidentally, to dissolve the kossovesa autonomy he used a constitutional clause very, very similar to the Spanish.
