CATALONIA --- REPLY TO POLITICO Europe

Catalan Assembly

 

Hello POLITICO Europe !
It's not very democratic to say that a politician calling for a vote will ruin 2017.

It caught our attention the paragraph where it's written 'since matters affecting all Spaniards can only be decided by all Spaniards and not merely by some of them'. i.e.
- All Europeans voted the UK exit of the EU (Brexit),
- All British voted the Scotland independence, and
- All world citizens voted the changes in New Zealand's flag.
Isn't it?
No, it is not.
Referendums affect all of us, and we must accept the choices of other nations. This is how democracy works.

Common sense says that only the citizens of Catalonia will decide their own future, indistinctly of their origins.

In a family, an adult teenager that wants to get independent from his parents could be a good analogy here, although the decision affects all, parents and siblings, it's the child's decision what matters, family should convince him to stay, but so far we've only got fear and post-truth from Spanish politicians...

 

President of the Catalan regional government Carles Puigdemont | Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images

6. Carles Puigdemont

Catalonia, the prosperous and, some would say, solipsistic region in the country’s northeast, is Spain’s rift that keeps on giving. Carles Puigdemont, the president of the Catalan regional government, is trying to hold a referendum on independence from Spain next year.

Both the Spanish government and the country’s constitutional court are adamant that such a move would be legally impermissible, since matters affecting all Spaniards can only be decided by all Spaniards and not merely by some of them.

So the Catalan drive for “self-determination” — as separatist politicians see it — puts the government in Madrid and the Catalan administration on a collision course as spectacular as any faceoff between Real Madrid and Barcelona. And that will force European institutions and other European governments to take sides.

Given the many separatist wannabes across the Continent, it’s doubtful any member country would take the Catalan side. But in truth, most would rather not be asked.

 http://www.politico.eu/article/dirty-dozen-kaczynski-vestager-flynn-sarkozy-barnier-eu-2017-selmayr-beppe-grillo/