THE CATALAN THAT LEFT TO THE NORTH AND HE COMES TO TELL US THAT HE IS A REPUBLICAN FRENCH

 

It begins bad, he speaks better in Catalan that in Castilian, what has all their logic because it was the language of their parents. Manuel Valls, first French minister, he has made a visit to Spain of less than 24 hours. Among the interview with the Government's president, Mariano Rajoy, and the leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sánchez, met in the ambassador's residence with a group of directors of newspapers. Valls, to who he likes to underline that it is a French of Barcelona. It follows bad to be presented before the Spanish court but him as French he doesn't understand it he will already learn it. 

 

During the encounter, he spoke of their program of reformations, of the problems of Europe, of the relationships with Spain. And he didn't refuse to refer to Catalonia, although to the third question he commented for the low thing that he had the sensation of making it in excess. Valls was wise, but at the same time loquacious. And that that the morning passed responding questions to the Government in its appearance before the French National Assembly. 

 

The first French minister was defined as non nationalist patriot - it mentioned the writer Romain Gary when he said that the patriotism is to love his and the nationalism is to deny to the other ones - an absurd appointment because it is not certain, in its generality the nationalist loves her nationality and respects of equal forms to all the other nationalities that are able to cohabit peacefully and without intention of being imposed to the other ones, sew that neither the French nationalism neither Spanish recognize that they make them.

 

Convert of Catalonia in their encounter of one hour with Rajoy. To add that they coincided in that "if the states are divided, Europe will weaken, and us what we want is a strong" Spain. This Monsieur Valls is not absolute he should know you that there are many opinions that favor the idea that an europa of the towns or the regions (not of the Nations) serious but strong more agile and more united mainly this last, but united because in government's nuclei and to be able to more reduced, serious more necessary a power and a strong centralized institution, so you are not made French that is seen the "grandeur." 

 

He insisted in that is not imaginable to separate a country without it doesn't suppose it economic consequences, and that, if this ended up happening, he would have effects in Catalonia, Spain and Europe. And it still pointed out that this challenge - it used that term - you leave in the UE with a lot of concern. It felt more comfortable Manuel Valls conversing of the economic reformations. He didn't have any repair in asserting that France has lost a lot of time, because he has lived in the last 30 years above its possibilities. So it considers high-priority to reform the country seriously. 

 

For he has made sure that it will clip 50.000 million Eurus in next two years, it will motivate to the companies so that they believe employment, it will invest in the improvement of the education and it will reduce taxes to those that fewer win. That yes, it froze wages and pensions (that is to say he made a mistake as he has made it Spain, Greece, and Italy, in favor of Germany that every time separated but of the group of the UE), but that measure won't affect those that fewer enter. It trusts a lot to the decrease of the Administrations - it has just approved the reduction of the regions of 22 á 12 -, in such a way that will suppose a weigh loss of the weight of the State and elimination of bureaucracy this to the Mr, Rajoy put him the long teeth. 

 

Valls is a convinced defender of the necessity of the traditional parties of being reinvented if they don't want to finish disappearing of the public scene. They interest him little the labels, although he remembered that of young, when it supported Michel Rocard, they called him social democrat by way of insult. Anyway, he said that the left - but also the right - they have to change up and down. And he joked reminding to François Mitterrand when he declared that the center doesn't exist that in fact forms part of the right. Anyway, he was defined of left and it showed their concern because the socialists had never repeated command in the V Republic, as if the voters preferred them in small dose. 

 

French Government's boss wanted to speak of identity, as special concern in this hour that his country lives. To "be French is not from birth a question, but a forms of sharing a community of values", it defined with rotundity. And he put on as example of somebody that had been born in Barcelona but it felt the republican values deeply, and therefore it was considered essentially French if because he has continued in Barcelona their deep republican feelings has not been allowed him truth Mr. Rajoy.