IT BREAKS IN PIECES ONE OF THE THREATS DE SPAIN TO CATALONIA

To speak of the agreement among “Junts pel YES” and the CUP to register in the Parlament of Catalunya, a combined motion to give beginning to the process of independence, the following day to the constitution of the Catalan camera, it is a fact that to many us full with satisfaction and restlessness, the first thing because we want it and him second because the reaction of Spain will be devastating and anything democratic, but both parliamentary groups have inscribed the proposal, a declaration in which one gives for initiate the process toward the independence and creation of a State for Catalonia. In the declaration it is pointed out that the "process of democratic to disconnect won't depend on" to the Spanish State and it is urged the future Catalan Govern to "complete those norms or emanated" commands of the Parlament exclusively. 

But it should not be all pessimism because today at the same time that it happened this in Spain, it jumped in pieces in Brussels one of the weapons more used by the government of the PP to threaten Catalonia. The European Union and Kosovo will sign this Tuesday October 27 the Agreement of Association and Stabilization that have already signed the rest of countries of the western Balkans with perspective of entering in the block and whose objective is to narrow the political and economic knots and to bring near it to the European Union. 

The document is seen as kind of a pre agreement for the adhesion to the block, the agreement that both parts concluded in May of 2014, includes the creation of an area of free gradual trade and it covers the political dialogue, the justice, freedom and security and the cooperation in a wide fan of sectors from the education to the employment, the energy or the environment, the services and the company. In the commercial plane, the UE guarantees the access to its market for the products Kosovars practically without restrictions. 

The article 2 of the document leave clear that the agreement doesn't imply "a recognition of Kosovo on the part of the European Union as an independent State neither it constitutes a recognition for the individual States member of Kosovo" in case they have not taken such a step" and the appointment of Kosovo is "without prejudice to the position on its status", on-line with the resolution 1244 of the Council of Security of the UN of 1999 and the opinion of the Tribunal of International Justice on the declaration of independence of Kosovo 2010. 

Spain, one of the five countries of the UE that has not recognized the independence of the former Serbian county, was of the countries that more obstacles put to accept to negotiate the agreement of Association with Kosovo. The Spanish Government accepted in June of 2013 that the European Union opened negotiations of the agreement after receiving guarantees that it won't suppose it its recognition "neither implicit neither explicit" and that it would only cover community competitions for what won't be ratified at national level, as he explained to the Secretary of State then for the UE, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo. 

The Governments of the Twenty-eight gave green light to the signature of the Agreement of Association and Stabilization with Kosovo the past October 22, a necessary step to be able to sign the agreement, something will make this Tuesday October 27 in Strasbourg the High Representative of Foreign policy and of Security Common of the UE, Federica Mogherini, and the commissary of Amplification, Johannes Hahn, for European part and for the first minister Kosovar, Isa Musfata, and the minister for the European Integration, Bekim Collaku, as community sources have advanced. You foresee that the agreement, the first one that will establish juridical relationships among both parts, go into effect "in the first half of 2016" once the European Parliament has given his seen good or consent to the same one, although it won't be ratified by the States member since it only concerns to the competitions of the UE. 

The objective of the agreement is to support the reinforcement of the democracy and the State of Right in Kosovo, to contribute to its stability, politics, economic and institutional, to guarantee an appropriate mark for the political dialogue that allows the development of the relationships, to facilitate its economic development and to help him to articulate a market economy in Kosovo, to promote an area of free trade and the regional cooperation in the covered sectors for the agreement. The text also recognizes "the disposition of the UE of taking concrete steps to materialize the European perspective and the approach to the UE" of Kosovo through its participation in the AAE whenever it completes the conditions and outstanding approaches, "in particular the regional" cooperation. 

The countries of the UE agreed to open negotiations of the Agreement of Association and Stabilization with Kosovo and of the negotiations of adhesion with Serbia in recognition to the historical agreement that they sealed in April to advance in the normalization of their relationships. By virtue of the agreement, sealed in April of 2013, Serbia he committed to dismantle their police structures and judicial parallel in the north of Kosovo and to integrate them in those of Kosovo in exchange for certain competitions for the community of Serbian majority through the creation of an association of municipalities in the north. Both parts also committed to not harming to the other one in their aspiration of advancing toward the Union Europe although Belgrade left clear that continued without recognizing the unilateral independence of Kosovo, proclaimed in February of 2008. 

The Declaration of independence of Kosovo was a happened act February 17/ 2008 and carried out by the Parliament Kosovar in an unilateral way that you frees with the weapons, on the other hand, Serbia still considers Kosovo an autonomous county inside its own territory, in conformity with its own constitution and with the resolution 1244 of the advice of Security of United Nations, although it no longer intervenes in the administration of the territory from 1999. 

There are many differences certainly between Kosovo and Catalonia but it is evident that if to a "autonomy" Serbia of single 1.7 million inhabitants, finally it has broken the pressures of the own Serbia and the other nations of the UE that oppose you to their recognition, in so single five years, it is necessary to suppose that little will be able to make Spain to avoid that Catalonia that presents 7.5 million inhabitants a GDP of 200 thousand million Eurus that is taxpaying net to the funds of the helps of the European Union and that it is presenting all the legal and democratic securities without running off with at the moment in weapons neither any hostile act with its "landlady" Spain, don't already begin in the point that today Kosovo is and that in a couple of years it can be recognized as state of the European Union with all right.