66. Jordi Pujol – Tiempo de Construir 1980-1993 (Catalunya)

21 augustus 2021

In the second part of his biography Jordi Pujol describes how he built the Catalonian institutions shortly after the death of dictator Franco.

Reading this biography it becomes clear how the political situations of Flanders and Catalonia differ profoundly from each other:

(1) While Flemings form the majority in Belgium, Catalonia is in Spain one of the many regions and in no way in a position to push through its will;

(2) While Flanders has a territory in which Dutch is unequivocally the language of the region, in Catalonia two languages are formally recognised: Catalonian and Spanish;

(3) reading Pujol’s description it is clear that migration was (and is?) a point of concern, BUT the migration which drew his attention is the immigration from other Spanish regions in the fifties and sexties and was to a certain degree a tool to break the Catalonian identity.