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Bulletin 16
February 21, 2006
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But no country can move forward without politics
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There has been much talk of late about the political crisis – of politicians and politics -, and the need to mobilise civil society. The way the situation has been unfolding in Catalonia recently has increased this feeling, and the mass media and all manner of entities are insisting on it once and again. This bulletin also demands it. For instance, the editorial “The statute will not be sufficient” of February does not refer exclusively to what needs to be done politically, once the Statute has been ratified, but also what civil society will have to do.
This is how it is, and how it has always been. A country with good political leadership but without a consistent social reality – assuming that such a situation is possible – it will not advance and its politicians will fail. On the contrary, a country with bad political leadership but with a strong civil society, that is, one with sound values, cohesion, creative capacity and social leaders, can keep going for years and, depending how, for many years. But it will eventually suffer the consequences of it, and greatly.
A country must have leaders that, without being politicians, influence politics. Whatever the case, of one thing we can be certain is that without politics the action of governing a country and a society has many limitations. I mean with neither politics nor solid and respected institutions.
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Author: Jordi Pujol
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Amèrica Llatina: Populisme versus reformes
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Amèrica Llatina es troba en una cruïlla marcada per un seguit de reptes i interrogants: la pèrdua de competitivitat davant d’una Àsia emergent, l’empobriment de les classes mitjanes i la pobresa endèmica, una mala política enfront de la regió dels Estats Units, avui gairebé inexistent per l’aparició de noves prioritats en l’agenda exterior nord-americana, i un llast de corrupció i ineficàcia que acompanya la política tradicional en molts països.
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Author: Joaquim Llimona
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Reflexions a la T4
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Com molts catalans he d’anar a Madrid freqüentment perquè la meva activitat docent així ho exigeix, i per això he estat un més d’entre els milers que aquests dies hem estrenat la nova terminal de l’aeroport de Barajas, la T4.
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Author: Antoni Subirà
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19 dubtes sobre l'Islam i una conclusió
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El debat de les caricatures 1) no és un debat sobre unes caricatures, és un debat sobre què i com es poden dir les coses. 2) És un debat sobre la intel·ligència d’uns redactors d’uns diaris que pensen que la millor manera de demostrar que l’islam és una religió intolerant és dir alguna cosa que saps que no estan disposats a tolerar. 3) És un debat sobre l’existència a Occident d’islamistes radicals disposats a usar qualsevol brasa per encendre un foc.
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Author: Jordi Graupera
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On the editorial "The Statute will not be sufficient"
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In answer to the last editorial of the president, "The Statute will not be sufficient", it is necessary to add that unfortunately nowadays the society lives to consume, not for creating and enjoying its actions. All is arranged in a way taht, before being useful, becomes obsolete. The utility should be immediate and should cover our needs without any efforts. All is arranged under this principle: neither the culture, neither the education, neither the politics are lasting. We are entertained consuming the present waiting for new entertainments. A society that consumes so fat everything that arrives and have time to think, neither for establish a solid base of growth. What happens in “the present day” is the key of our problems. At this time all our problems are caused by all that that we should consume now and by mandate of all the forces that influenceteh society. We are entertained in have not criterion, we forget the right that as society we have to decide, to grow, to be critics with ourselves . A politics based on the cohesion of the citizens, that teach us not to consume, but to create, should be the priority of all ours politicians.
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From all the news of the latest 15 days, we have selected the next ones:
Òmnium and the IEC require PSC to amend the Valencian text
The
Popular Party and the Spanish Socialist Party approved in the project
of Valencian Statute the denomination “Valencian language”, that
intends to consummate legally the catalan linguistic secesionism. The
President of the IEC, Salavador Giner, recalls to the parliamentary
Catalonian socialists that this expression is an attack to the unit of
the catalan language recognized by the Constitutional Court, the
university world and by the international linguistic authorities.
Barcelona is the fifth more considered city for business in Europe
The observatory Barcelona 2005, elaborated by the City Hall and the Chamber of commerce, based on the report European Cities Monitor,
that tests 500 companies of many countries, points Barcelona as the
European city in the first place in qulity life, the twenty nineth in
living cost, the twenty-fourth in salary level, and the fifth favorite
for business, over Àmsterdam, Madrid, Brussels and Zurich.
Dies at the age of 70 Francesc Ferrer and Gironès
Defender
of the tongue and the Catalonian culture, author of various books in
defense of our language, founder of the Prudenci Bertrana prizes and of
the bookstore Les Voltes in Girona, and former president of the Chamber
of Commerce. Political, senator, representative in the
Parliament of Catalonia and at present second lieutenant of mayor
of the City Hall of Girona.
The Polish bishops require to Radio Maria that be politically neuter
Catholic
bishops are irritated by the sectarianism of the television Trwan and
Radio Maria, directed by the redeeming Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Tehy
demand to respect the political centrality in their emissions and
notify that the catholic mass media cannot be instruments of any
political force.
The nuclear energy
An
editorial from La Vanguaredia remind that it is time to revise
the present nuclear moratorium. The price of the petroleum and
the Kyoto’s protocol support this proposal. European
Commissioner, Joaquin Almunia and the American president in the speech
on the state of the Union, also demand it while Great Britain, France
and Finland are preparing nuclear plans.
Conseller Solà: “The reform separates us from Europe”
Whatever!
We go preaching for knowledgment, knowledgment and knowledgment,
Research, Reserach and Researchr while our institutions are reformed as
they want to. Each time it is more extended the opinion that to
reduce collage careers is a nonsense.
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Franco's murderers
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Now that is coming to the public scene generation who did notlive the spanish transition, neither voted the Constitution neither the Statute, the journalist Francesc- Marc Àlvaro (who was 9 years old when Franco died), is now in a society with a global mentality and some rules of the political play presided still, insome way, by the values established in Franco’s times. And, since there are things he do not like, he believes that the way to explain that process should be changed. His book is a criticism to the interested battle that some elites have done of their antifranco’s social movements. On one side, tehy are pro-franco reconverted and, on the another, communist-marxists recycled. People that have played a main role that, according to him, him does not belong them, because the pretended heroes “murderous” of Franco have not existed: Franco died in the bed due natural facts. Àlvaro gives us many names as well as explains many well illustrative biographies. By this, he says, in Catalonia, the victory of Pujol in 1980, left dismayed those heroes in such a way that now they are still nota ble to surppass the anti-Pujol serious sympthom It is good for the young ones to be interested to revise the recent history. Their analysis they will help their generation and will interest to whom lived those times.
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Author: Francesc-Marc Àlvaro
L'Esfera dels llibres, 2005
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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Founded in 1943, the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), is a private foundation with headquarters in Washington D.C devoted to the economic, social, and political research with the purpose to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism--limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies, political accountability, and open debate. It employs 175 professionals from three research divisions: economy and finances, social politics and foreign policy. Their work is adressed to government officials and legislators, teachers and students, business executives, professionals, journalists, and other citizens. AEI also offers some graduate and post-graduate fellowships.
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