Catalan Nationalism and Challenges to the Territorial Integrity of Spain

G. I. Volkova

doi:10.18611/2221-3279-2016-7-2(23)-85-95

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century Spain faced a number of challenges, primarily the growth of separatist sentiments in the regions fraught with the danger of its fragmentation on ethno-national basis. In the context of increased ethno-national mobilization of “small peoples” in Spain one of its most economically developed regions – Catalonia – envisages a rise of the regional identity. Against the backdrop of economic problems generated by the crisis of 2008-2014 the autonomous communities of Spain, including Catalonia, came across the rise of socio-political problems, particularly the growing distance between the society and the central administrative bodies formed in democratic conditions, as well as the two-party administrative system.

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At the beginning of the 21st century Spain faced a number of challenges
Against the backdrop of economic problems generated by the crisis of 2008-2014 the autonomous communities
the central administrative bodies formed in democratic conditions

Summary

Introduction

Успех каталонских националистов на региональных парламентских выборах 27 сентября 2015 г. Не лишил Каталонию ведущих производственных позиций в стране[4], а экономика как этого региона, так и Испании в целом вернулась в 2015 г. Председатель Женералитата по сути является премьер-министром правительства этого автономного сообщества. Что в случае получения твердой поддержки со стороны избирателей националисты сформируют правительство и начнут процесс суверенизации, т.е.

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