Nearly 3 out of every 10 euros that the State has allocated to the autonomous regions since 2012 through mechanisms such as the regional liquidity fund (FLA) have gone to Catalonia. According to data from the Ministry of Finance, since that year to date, 145.365 billion euros have reached Catalonia through various extraordinary instruments, out of a total of 431.289 billion euros allocated to the territories under the common regime, which cover the deficit and pay bills and ten.

One episode of the massive blackout indicates the extent to which the will for self-government in some autonomous regions is quickly diluted. The decision of up to eight autonomous communities—all but one governed by the People's Party (PP)—to hand over the keys to the Spanish government with the declaration of a national emergency demonstrates, on the one hand, that they lack confidence in their own civil protection system and that, for the Popular Party, autonomy is a mere instrument to wear down Pedro Sánchez's government.

1. The week of the forgiveness of part of the debt of the autonomous communities has ended with a final flourish. The president of Madrid, in a cover interview in The World This Sunday, left this headline: "Now we have to assume the Catalan debt, they treat us like idiotsIsabel Díaz Ayuso knows what the issue is that angers part of the citizenry, scares her followers and, at the end of the day, gives votes to the Popular Party. It is her version of "Catalonia is robbing us." and a pathological cynicism, she is given that what she says is true, she does not give a damn that it generates bad feelings among people of the same state and, if it suits her, she hides that the rest of the autonomous communities are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return and that only in interest, was a bloody one for each community. gone again this week, the end justifies the means. But she knows badly that, in this perverse syllogism, it does not matter Catalonia. dead, that the independence movement is no longer the majority in the Parliament and that Catalan is only the habitual language of a third of the citizens. They have already won, but they like to fatten themselves. Cane in "The CatalansAgainst Junqueras and Puigdemont it is no longer enough.

1. The week of the forgiveness of part of the debt of the autonomous communities has ended with a final flourish. The president of Madrid, in a cover interview in The World This Sunday, left this headline: "Now we have to assume the Catalan debt, they treat us like idiotsIsabel Díaz Ayuso knows what the issue is that angers part of the citizenry, scares her followers and, at the end of the day, gives votes to the Popular Party. It is her version of "Catalonia is robbing us." and a pathological cynicism, she is given that what she says is true, she does not give a damn that it generates bad feelings among people of the same state and, if it suits her, she hides that the rest of the autonomous communities are also forgiven the proportional part of a debt that they would never have been able to return and that only in interest, was a bloody one for each community. gone again this week, the end justifies the means. But she knows badly that, in this perverse syllogism, it does not matter Catalonia. dead, that the independence movement is no longer the majority in the Parliament and that Catalan is only the habitual language of a third of the citizens. They have already won, but they like to fatten themselves. Cane in "The CatalansAgainst Junqueras and Puigdemont it is no longer enough.

A few years after the dictator's death, and after much begging, the Catalan nation under Spanish domination got some very famous tailors from the court to make it some very celebrated constitutional dresses. They were called autonomies. And for almost thirty years, those who said they had seen them and published chronicles praised their beauty. Until one day the people discovered the deception and began to shout in the streets: "The nation is naked!" When the tailors saw their cunning had been discovered, they had those who went before the people locked up in prison. But it was no longer possible to hide the fact that the nation had been naked all those years.