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The European crisis.
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The Catalan crisis is the Spanish crisis. It is the European crisis. It is the return of the face of authoritarianism within the heart of Europe. It is more than just a shame that short-sighted political interests, such as maintaining Mr Juncker in office or promoting a right-leaning Spanish European Finance Minister mired in allegations…
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The New.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. — Hannah Arendt See also: 01 02 Feuilleton/ · Quotation/ · Hannah Arendt/ · · · · English/ Einen Fehler gefunden?…
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Intellektuelle und Politikerinnen wenden sich an die EU.
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Rund hundert Intellektuelle, Wissenschafter- und Politikerinnen haben in Zusammenhang mit der Lage in Katalonien einen offenen Brief über »Rechtsstaatlichkeit in der Europäischen Union« an die Präsidenten Jean-Claude Juncker und Donald Tusk sowie — zur Kenntnis — an den Vizepräsidenten Frans Timmermans geschickt. Unter den Unterzeichnerinnen befinden sich unter anderem Barbara Spinelli, Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse,…
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The guilty silence.
Quotation · Alex Salmond tells it like it is–
You see, the guilty silence in this issue is not because people are for and against independence for Catalonia, not because of for and against Catalonian self-determination. These are arguable cases. What is not an arguable case is to stand idly by and say nothing when violence is perpetrated against a civilian population. That is…
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Hola República!
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Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya, Occitan: Catalonha, Spanish: Cataluña)[b][c] is a region in the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula. Its constitutional status is the subject of a dispute between the Kingdom of Spain, which views it as an autonomous community within Spain, and the Generalitat de Catalunya, which views it as an independent republic following a…