Spain: For Catalonia!
When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one reali...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The International Academic Forum
2019-04-01
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| Series: | IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-cultural-studies/volume-4-issue-1/article-1/ |
| Summary: | When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in Madrid stop being an intra-Spanish issue? When one realises that the task at hand is neither contempt for the constitution nor a backwards-oriented issue of sectionalism that Spain has to suppress. And if one realises that Europe's self-understanding is at stake here, the confrontation becomes an issue of the self-understanding of a European democracy.
NB: This article was originally published in German in DIE ZEIT (Nr. 44/2017, October 26, 2017. https://www.zeit.de/2017/44/spanien-katalonien-unabhaengigkeit-demokratie-europa). Translation by Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Holger Briel and Michael High. |
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| ISSN: | 2187-4905 2187-4905 |