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## Re: [Eurasia] Catalonia Autonomy Statute

Released on 2012-08-18 22:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1767929
Date | 2010-07-12 19:57:25
From | marko.papic@stratfor.com
To | eurasia@stratfor.com
List-Name | eurasia@stratfor.com

This is interesting because the Catalan goes over the Basque in "tone"
only. I don't see anything substantial that the Catalan gains in wording
its constitutional statute the way it does. Seems to me like "Scaling
back" would be simple. Of course that would be extremely difficult to get
the Catalan's to agree on.
Elodie, can we get a little bit of background on how the statutes were
designed to begin with. Why did it chose the language it did?
Elodie Dabbagh wrote:
It does not seem like there is a legal way to appeal the decision of the
Spanish Constitutional Court. I do not think there is any other way to
change the decision other than writing a new statute.
Also, I have compared the Catalan and the Basque statute. The CC
decision does not deny any right to the Catalans that is granted to the
Basques by the Basque autonomy statute. The Catalan statute goes much
further than the Basque one. It does not seem to me that the CC censored
major major stuff. The constitutional changes seem pretty moderate to me
and the statute still consecrate Catalonia's autonomy statute.
I have also compiled all the articles the Spanish CC declared
unconstitutional (I am sending that in a word doc).
Comparison Basque autonomy statute / Catalan autonomy statute:
The statute of autonomy of the Basque country was established in 1979.
Article 1 of the Preliminary title states that "The Basque People or
<<Euskal-Herria>>, as an expression of their nationality and in order to
accede to self-government, constitute an Autonomous Community within the
Spanish State under the name of <<Euskadi>> or the Basque Country, in
accordance with the Constitution and with this Statute, which lays down
its basic institutional rules."
The first article of the Preliminary title of the Catalan autonomy
statute says: "Catalonia, as a nationality, exercises its
self-government constituted as an autonomous community in accordance
with the Constitution and with this Estatut, which is its basic
institutional law."
The two articles basically say the same, except that the Basque one
states that the Basque people constitute an Autonomous Community within
the Spanish State. The CC did not say anything about this article (the
term "nationality" is okay for the CC - I told you it was not earlier).
The preamble states that "the Parliament of Catalonia has defined
Catalonia as a nation by an ample majority. The Spanish Constitution, in
its second Article, recognises the national reality of Catalonia as a
nationality." This is what the CC declared without legal effect. In this
sense, the Catalan statute goes further than the Basque one, which does
not mention a single time the Basque country as a nation.
Regarding the language issue, the Basque statute does not go as far as
the Catalan one.
Article 6 Preliminary Title:
1. <<Euskera>>, the language of the Basque People, shall, like Spanish,
have the
status of an official language in Euskadi. All its inhabitants have the
right to know
and use both languages.
Articles 6 paragraphs 1 & 2 of the Catalan statute also state that there
are two official languages. However, art. 6 - 1 says that "Catalan is
the language of normal and preferential use in Public Administration
bodies and in the public media of Catalonia, and is also the language of
normal use for teaching and learning in the education system." The part
about Catalan as a "preferred" language was considered unconstitutional.
Catalan: ARTICLE 218. AUTONOMY AND FINANCIAL POWERS
2. The Generalitat has power in matters of local financing, within the
framework established by the Constitution and the State regulations.
This power may include the legislative capacity to establish and
regulate local government taxes and includes the power to establish the
criteria for distribution of shares of the budget of the Generalitat.
The underlined sentence was considered unconstitutional.
Basque: Article 42.-The revenue of the General Treasury of the Basque
Country shall
consist of:
b) The proceeds of the Autonomous Community's own taxes that may be
established by the Basque Parliament, in accordance with the provisions
of article 157 of the Constitution and as stipulated in the Organic Law
on
the financing of the Autonomous Communities.
Technically, the two articles say that the autonomous Basque and Catalan
communities can establish local taxes. The Basque article however
explicitly says that it will be in accordance with Spanish national
laws. The Catalan article does not say that.
--
Elodie Dabbagh
STRATFOR
Analyst Development Program
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Marko Papic
Geopol Analyst - Eurasia
STRATFOR
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