Etiket: Tapia
Abyss to the Europeans, by Joan Tapia
Constitution Day has already passed and Ten years have passed since the current General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) was elected by the Congress and the Senate in 2013. Its…
Barcelona counts | By Joan Tapia
On Saturday this newspaper dedicated a magnificent special to Passeig de Gràcia which turns 200 years old. The street is the pride of the city and for the price of…
The key of Salvador Illa, by Joan Tapia
On Friday, Salvador Illa spoke at the S’Agaró economic conference. In 2021 it came first – tied in seats with ERC – in the Catalan elections. But this year the…
The dangers of the new Government, by Joan Tapia
Will Spain break the pact with Waterloo? Was it the only way out against “the retrograde right”? Sánchez arrived at La Moncloa (July 2018) after the motion of censure against…
From kicking to shaking hands, by Joan Tapia
Spain suffers great polarization due to protests against the amnesty and the right-wing rejection of Sánchez’s investiture due to the pact with pro-independence parties. And the investiture debate was marked…
Investiture, ‘troppo’ noise, article by Joan Tapia
The plenary session that will end this Thursday, expectedly with the investiture of Pedro Sánchez with 179 votes from eight parliamentary groups against 171 from the PP, Vox and UPN,…
Arithmetic and realpolitik, article by Joan Tapia on the investiture agreement
There is already an investiture agreement. How to judge it? The first thing is that it is not ideal at all because it will not stop – on the contrary…
The fractures are getting worse, article by Joan Tapia
The incompatibility between the PP and the PSOE, the two great parties between which a minimum understanding would be necessary, is not a thing of today. But in recent times…
Odón Elorza and the amnesty, by Joan Tapia
Odón Elorza was the socialist mayor of Donostia from 1991 to 2001. I was struck by that photograph of the then mayor chasing a group of Batasunos down the street…
When the illiberals lose, by Joan Tapia
In America (Trump) and in Europe there is a wave, which sometimes seems unstoppable, of nationalist populism. The recent elections in two German ‘landers’ (Bavaria and Hesse) and in Slovakia…