1) Do you really believe "few Catalans would object" if they were given the choice to learn English as a 2nd language instead of "having Spanish imposed" on them? Please give me an honest response. It's clear you would not object yourself, but for you to speak on behalf of the Catalan people on this issue seems presumptuous.
2) Why do you assume the FT (and the Economist) correspondent have not been to Barcelona and have not talked to "the other side of the story"? Just because they don't share your view of things? I know The Economist made public a list of Catalans they had interviewed - has FT done anything similar? [+]
El prestigiós diari Financial Times va publicar el passat 15 d’abril l’article Spain's 'coffee for all' can be a bitter brew, on presenta una visió esbiaxada de Catalunya. Seguint la iniciativa que es va iniciar amb la resposta a l’article How much is enough de la revista The Economist, s’ha constituït el Col·lectiu Emma, que té com a objectiu respondre (ja sigui nosaltres directament o fent difusió de respostes que compartim fetes per altres persones) a les informacions inexactes que apareguin a la premsa internacional sobre la realitat nacional catalana. [+]
In a special report published in November 8th, “The Economist” examines the issue of decentralization and the nature of the Spanish “estado de las autonomías” (as the prestigious British newspaper puts it).
In its discussion of Catalan autonomy (in the section “How much is enough?”), the author of the report, Michael Reid, makes a series of assertions about linguistic and education policy, about the financial structure of the Spanish state and about the Spanish constitutional settlement in general which are either imprecise or strictly inaccurate. [+]
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