Bitter tears of FLA in Madrid

In the history of anti-Catalanism, the media account of Madrid on the FLA's debt would deserve a chapter of its own, if not an entire book. Now that the State government has agreed to a settlement that follows the formula of the coffee for everyone –except, ehem, the communities outside the common regime–, the newspapers of the cavern also stir up the feeling that it is the Catalans who put their hands in the pockets of the rest of the Spaniards. "Sanchez buys his continuity with a super-quittal in Catalonia," is the headline on the front page. The World. And, as a subtitle, a second cup of broth: "He agrees that the rest of the Spaniards pay 17,000 million of the Catalan income to reward his partners." Along the same lines, The reason He writes that "Sánchez adds 1,900 euros more to the regional debt for every Spanish debt" and claims that it is "a tailor-made suit for Catalonia."

The media always focus on the data until they spit out the messages that suit them. These spurious calculations are made, for example, without taking into account the contribution to the GDP, the per capita income or, above all, the transfers transferred to each community, which are very different. Nor is the fiscal balance looked at: the debt is the result of a clamorous underfunding that the cavern will never admit. Nor is the effect of capital status that benefits Madrid so much (and also ends up being the fourth beneficiary of the measure in absolute terms, as much as The World To sell the idea that it is the rest of Spain that is saving Catalonia suggests that the rest of the communities have a surplus, when in reality they will also enjoy their respective severance payments... also paid for with the taxes of the Catalans. To stir up internal hatred between autonomous communities: a curious way of articulating and uniting a homeland that they see as so threatened and for which they always feel pain.