The possibility of achieving independence in Catalonia has raised the alarm in the Spanish Government, also among the Spanish parties, both right and left, institutions such as the Constitutional Court and all its media terminals. They are all in a real dirty war against the Catalans and their economy. The arguments they have used are many: employment, bread, pensions, savings, public services, corporate relocation, etc. According to the promoters of the dirty war, if independence were declared in Catalonia, chaos would be thrown out, catastrophe, unemployment and poverty would grow, because not paying pensions would be a country isolated from Europe and the rest of the world. The arguments for generating fear are the attempt to reduce the right of citizens to vote freely.

There is, however, reason to believe that independent Catalonia would be economically viable, would provide more welfare and the markets would have more confidence in Catalonia, because it would remain one of the richest countries in Europe. That has not been said just by the Catalans. Nobel Prizes in Economics for 1992 and 2004, former directors of the International Monetary Fund, Eurostat, Swiss Bank Credit and the German Bundestag Bank, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal… All of them have provided data favorable to the independence of Catalonia.

It would therefore be desirable, instead of rejecting the dirty war, to stop making threats and giving arguments that bolster a disaster, to discuss serious, opposing and favorable economic arguments between the citizens, both for Catalonia and for Euskal Herria. There are, for example, the words of Josep Borrell and Joan Llorach in the book The Tales and Accounts of Catalonia, apparently vetoed at TV3 – the television network says that it has proposed an interview with the authors after the elections. Citizens have the right to know precisely the economic arguments for and against. And once the vote has been taken, let everyone respect what the ballot box says, and in this case, better if it is a referendum.