Neither Carles Puigdemont nor Quim Torra today will
deliver their planned lecture at the European Parliament headquarters in
Brussels due to the veto of the institution. And the extraordinary thing is
that they tear off their rags.
The episode confirms another disaster: the
independence movement is openly anti-European and also aspires to erode a
common house with so many enemies in 2019. Or rather "friends", like
the representatives of Catalonia...
The marvelous thing here is that holy indignation
which attributes the prohibition to an arbitrary action of the president of the
European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, Princess of Asturias award to the Concord
2017, a distinction that he collected accompanied -significantly- by the higher
officers of the EU's staff.
Ever since October 2017, when the European Union stood unequivocally against the
referendum and in defense of respect for the legal framework of Spain -
dialogue yes, but within the Constitution -, ERC, CUP and PDECat - mon dieu! -
are continuously attacking and increasingly in an open mode the European Union,
in tune with that disquieting cabin of the Marx brothers: the Brexiters, the
National Front, the Italian League, the Hungarian Orbán, the Polish Government of
Law and Justice...
Peacefully and civically, business as usual,
pro-independence protesters occupied, last February 2, the central headquarters
in Barcelona of the EU, where they hung the banner of the moment - self-determination
should be a European right! -, placed a black crepe in the blue flag, locked
themselves up all night and when they left they slipped some warnings:
"Europe cannot remain impassible (...) we are preparing more direct
actions", said the president of the ANC. The CUP included Europe among the enemies of Catalonia.
Every political movement is very free to choose its
friends and its enemies, but it borders on childishness to think that one can
occupy a building of the EU headquarters - something unusual and unfriendly -,
continually launch Eurosceptic tweets - as Puigdemont has been doing - and then
be surprised that the doors are closed.
For some time now, unfortunately for all, the sovereignty
parties have assumed their immunity and nothing that they say or do can have
consequences. The new mantra is that self-determination is not a crime - it
certainly is not - and therefore, trickily, it is already a right that one can
exercise when s/he so decides. And now they demand that the EU - do they know
its origins, its ambition to overcome nationalisms and blur borders? - supports
something that goes against the very reason of its existence. Not only do we
shoot at our own foot every other day but we command the EU to do the same...
The sovereignty parties are going inside the cabin
of the Marx Brothers with a frivolity that frightens. With friends like these
ones, the EU does not need enemies.
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