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Pointless economic policies
Published on 2011-08-20 04:49:41
The Spanish Government has decided to reduce VAT from 8% to 4% for the purchase of new homes as an exceptional and temporary measure (it will be maintained until 31st December) to reduce Spanish budget deficit as well as to restimulate economic activity in the construction sector. As Phil Connors in the Groundhog Day film, [...]
Spanish early elections add pressure on Catalan parties
Published on 2011-08-02 08:12:34
Finally Mr. Zapatero made the long-awaited announcement: the Spanish elections will be hold November 20th, four months before the end of the current government’s mandate in March. For Catalan political parties this is no surprise, but it certainly adds complexity to the internal proceedings to chose their candidate. Let’s take for instance ERC, the left-wing Catalan [...]
EU food labelling linguistic regime
Published on 2011-07-11 03:10:43
Last week many Catalan media talked about the Sommer Report, a piece of European legislation that seeks to provide more and better information to consumers. However, it was the rules concerning the linguistic regime on food labels what made this issue appear in the news. Three Catalan MEPs -Ramon Tremosa, from the Centre-Right Catalan [...]
Economics on Catalan secession
Published on 2011-06-27 03:56:31
Two weeks ago IESE professor Pankaj Ghemawat published the article “The ties that bind Catalonia“, where he presented economic arguments against the independence of Catalonia. In response to that article, UPF professors Xavier Cuadras-Morató and Modest Guinjoan, authors of the book “Sense Espanya” have now published this article in thel Finacial Times: “Too bleak vision [...]
Junqueras is ready to lead ERC’s renovation
Published on 2011-06-21 02:57:46
On September 17 2011 the members of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya will vote their new president and secretary general. Catalonia’s oldest political party will thus start off a new stage with the clear goal of recovering from the latest electoral defeats and set the party back to the lead of the political debate. ERC has deservedly [...]