Katalunia independentziaranzko bidean (3)

Hasteko, ikus Katalunia independentziaranzko bidean[1] eta Katalunia independentziaranzko bidean (2)[2].

Hona hemen Kataluniari buruzko zenbait berri interesgarri:

i)                 Ekonomialari katalanak independentziaren alde[3]

ii)                Kataluniako botoek Europar Batasuna (EB) alda dezakete[4]

Zehazki,

a)      Catalan Academics Push Independencedelakoan irakur daitekeenez,

a-1) “… the six academics argue that Spain’s system of sharing tax revenues among the 17 regions shortchanges Catalonia by about €16 billion ($22 billion) annually. That amounts to more than €2,000 per inhabitant, or around 8% of Catalonia’s output, based on public tax and investment data, the academics say.”

a-2) The scholars … call themselves the Wilson Initiative, after U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, a champion of national self-determination.

a-3)  Xavier Sala-i-Martin: the moment for independence is now.

Bitartean, EBko burokratek antzeko liturgia errepikatzen dute, alegia,

“Top EU officials have stated repeatedly that any part of any member state that becomes independent would be automatically outside the EU. If it wanted to join, its application would have to be ratified by the rest.”

Sala-i-Martin ekonomialariaren ustez,

“…the EU would be hard-pressed to follow through on such tough talk since the many large European companies with operations in Catalonia would resist the loss of free-trade benefits. Many Spanish exporters also need to pass through Catalonia to get their goods to Northern Europe,…”

b)      How the Voters of Catalonia May Change Europe izeneko artikuluak hauxe dio:

Alde batetik Eskoziaren kasua dago[5]. Bestetik,  Kataluniarena[6].

Bi autoreen iritziz,

b-1) “It will be Europe, in the end, that decides whether Catalonia will be an independent state.”

b-2) “For Europe, this domestic legal debate is largely irrelevant. If Catalonians choose independence, they will seek international recognition as an independent state based on the will of the people, not on provisions of the Spanish constitution.”

b-3) “International law neither permits nor prohibits the holding of referenda by aspiring states. Under international law, a state must have a territory with a population subject to the control of a government – criteria that Catalonia will meet. It also must be sovereign, meaning that other states must recognize it as independent. This is how the Catalonian issue will be owned by the other European states.”

b-4) “Europe as a whole is unlikely to deny recognition to Catalonia. That would create a frozen conflict in the core of Europe that will drain political capital and economic resources of an economically fragile Spain. In many European states, non-recognition would be perceived as anti-democratic. It will be extremely difficult to justify, given that more than two dozen states have achieved recognition in the past twenty years, and that Scotland is likely to join that list.”

b-5) “Now is the time for the EU to be proactive and develop a policy for dealing with Catalonia’s call for self-determination and possible independence.”