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Bulletin 29
June 06, 2006
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Pride or unease
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Last week Barcelona received a visit from Mr Mario Monti, one of the leading Italian economists. In addition to being a member of the European commission in Brussels, he was especially recognised for his objectivity and technical expertise, and for the way he directed the commission’s sensitive remit on competition. Furthermore, while he was in Brussels, Monti proved to be a good friend of Catalonia.
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Author: Jordi Pujol
Reading time: 3 min.
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Catalonia: "memory-country or fiction-country in the globalization?"
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The south of Europe has been configured, as Josep Lluís Sert wrote, as "a big region, unique in the world, with its own particular characteristics, which facilitate and stimulate the exchange of people and civilizations", to the extent that, as Paul Válery wrote, it has become an authentic "machine of creation of civilization", favoring the constitution of some of the most important universal ideals of the Humanity, either in the political area (democracy), legal (human rights), religions (monotheism) or science (rational thought). It has been so important that still today it is a pole of attraction for its creative intensity as well as for its deep issues
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Author: Lluís Calvo
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An "Angela" for the European Union?
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It is not to discover a new thing if we state that the European Union is found in one of the most delicate moments since the constituent signature of the Treaty of Rome, next year it will be the fifty anniversary.
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Author: Joan Vallvé
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TV3, Rocío and the point of view
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A television, a radio, a journal, are essentially a point of view: a place from where the world is looked at, a specific look. A new media -public or private- appears when it is considered that there is a point of view that exists in the society and that it does not have informative expression. TV3 was created so that there was television set in Catalan, is true.
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Author: Vicenç Villatoro
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On the editorial "On questions of population (several points for reflection)
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On this editorial, I remember throughout the eighties, two repeated calls of the president Pujol: to contribute to the growth of the Catalan demography and to be prepared for the massive migrations from the north of Africa. The Spanish general answer to the first call was of mockery, even with comparisons with the Franco birth polices named The great family. On the second subject few political forces had the prospective vision to get advanced to the current drama, now tragic and routine. The projection of Morocco asked for the president was not listened in Madrid. The duties were not done and now we are paying the consequences. In Catalunya, we have often noticed Sweden as model of society but we have not copied that much their proactive disposition and capacity of teamwork. After all this should remind us the sentence "the horizon of the ruler is the legislature; but the horizon of the stateman, should be the next generation".
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Author: Miquel Àngel Violan |
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On the article "It does not lack petroleum in the world"
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If feel so disappointed with the opinion of the writter when she states that “Petroleum is not finishing”. The only sentence that she could add to justify her position is to say that Petroleum will not finish soon. We can increase our capacity to refine it, and probably we will have the capacity to influence on its prize now, but not in a few years. In the next years we will live the scenaryf the named peak oil, which is the moment in which the demand for oil will surpass the offer. There are several different predictions on what can occur, but I will not discuss on uncertain events. What I can say is that now we extract much more oil than what we discover (sources of the International Agency of the Energy). This fact happens because in the past we discovered more oil sources than waht we extracted. Lets say then than in these moments, the world works thanks to the discoveries of previous years and if we look at the trend, which seems reliable enough, we arrive at the conclusion that in less than 50 years, the oil will be finished.
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Author: Jordi Rosell |
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Of the last week news, we have selected the next ones:
Independent Montenegro
The montenegrino Parliament proclaimed the independence from the republic, which is split of Serbia, after the referendum that with the guarantee of the UNO and of the European Union provided a qualified majority of the partisans of the “yes” to the separation. Montenegro is the eighteenth country that, after 1990, with its independence modifies the frontiers of Europe.
Better perspectives for the Catalan industry
The survey of sectorial forecasts of the Catalan industry 2005-2006 ellaborated by the catalonian chambers, foresees an increase of the sales for 2006 of 6,4%, so will improve those results of the 2005, which were superior to those of 2004 3,2%. The most dynamic sectors will be the metallurgical products and that of the furniture, with an increase of 10%. The survey is carried out among a thousand companies of the different industrial subsectors. It is also expected an increase of the exports of 4,5%, superior also to the increase of 3% of the last year. In spite of these perspectives, losses will take place in the job market of 0,6%. It is entrusted that new jobs will be created in sectors more competitive of the industry, and especially in the services.
Japan stops the large commerce centres
The Japanese government has approved a reform of the law of urban development planning that will frobid the construction of large commercial centres–of more than 10.000 m²– in the peripheries of the cities, with the intention to avoid the depopulation of the cities and to revitalize the small commerce. These norms will be stablished in two years. Until the year 2000, the country had maintained a restrictive politics in the creation of large commercial areas to protect the small commerce. That same year 414 new superstores were opened, the 85% in the periphery. The new regulation intends to stop the extraordinary expansion of the large commercial areas in these last years. Road security in the Spain Fifteen countries of the EU have carried out a study on the control and the caution of the road security. According to the work, Spain is the country that does less speed and alcohol controls and also is teh country where the seat belt is less used, especially in the rear seats of the cars. According to the study, Finland, the United Kingdom, Holland, Sweden and Germany are the countries that better comply the road safety regulations and with proportions very over those of the Spaniards. The abbot of Montserrat visits the Pope
The abbot Soler had the opportunity to explain to the Pope that this year is celebrated the 125th anniversary of the proclamation of the Virgin María of Montserrat as the patroness of Catalonia. In the conference, pronounced in Rome, he said that "the Sanctuary of Montserrat is presented like the religious identity factor of the territory. For this reason it is necessary to emphasize the interest of our bishops to give a visible witness of the pastoral unit of Catalonia celebrating jointly in Montserrat the festival of our Patroness”. The Nàstic, to First Divison
After 56 years, the Gimnàstic of Tarragona returns to the First Division of the soccer League. The board of directors promised to rise to First division since Second B in no more than five years and they have obtained it in only four. The city lived a day of happiness and celebrations. The municipal team assured that they had never seen before that much people in the streets and they qualified it as an historic day.
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The voice of the experience
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The young journalist Antoni Aira presents some interviews to ten older personages, that have lived key moments of our history. In the interviews, they explain their experiences and they think on of the present time themes. The personages are: Josep Maria Ainaud, Antoni Maria Badia i Margarit, Josep Maria Ballarin, Jordi Bonet, Helena Cambó, Teodor Garriga, Montserrat Moner, Lluís Maria Pugès, Josep Maria Puig Salellas, Ramon Trias. Aira believes that, now that the youths demand the right to be listened and not to be forgotten, it is also fair to let the older people speak, to take care of the capital of the experience of older generations, to promote the dialogue among generations and to surpass the mutual ignorance. Because the speech of the greater people is full of responsibility, of effort, of fight and of loyalties, values so necessary now and before. As the President Pujol says in the prologue: “A book that helps to know what we have been, what we are and what we should be”.
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Author: Antoni Aira
Editorial Dèria. Barcelona, 2006.
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Bruegel
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Bruegel is a new think tank created in Brussels last year with the support of the European government and several corporations, dedicated to the analysis of the international economy. Financed with private and public funds, it intends to know closely the economic challenges and the responsibilities that has to assume Europe in the globalization. While the bureau, presided by the European excomisioner Mario Monti, puts the up-to-date questions on the table, the team of investigators takes charge of analyzing them. It is not politically positioned and it does not takes part on institutional decisions.
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