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Website. gencat.cat. Catalonia (/ ˌkætəˈloʊniə /; Catalan: Catalunya [kətəˈluɲə] ⓘ; Occitan: Catalonha [kataˈluɲa]; [ 9 ] Spanish: Cataluña [kataˈluɲa] ⓘ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. [ d ][ 11 ] Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situated on the ...
The Generalitat is the institutional system around which Catalonia’s self-government is politically organized. The powers of the Generalitat stem from the people of Catalonia and are exercised according to the Spanish Constitution and the Statute of Autonomy – the basic institutional law of Catalonia. The Generalitat is a complex entity ...
- Essential Facts and Figures
- Autonomy and State Structure
- Establishment and Implementation of Autonomy
- Legal Basis of Autonomy
- Autonomous Institutions
- Autonomous Powers
- Financial Arrangements
- Intergovernmental Relations
- Inter-Group Relations Within The Autonomous Entity
- Membership and Special Rights
Catalonia is situated on the eastern Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula. It covers a land area of 32,106 km2 (making it slightly bigger than Belgium) and has a population of 7,716,760 (slightly less than Switzerland). Catalonia is currently an Autonomous Community (AC) of Spain that covers 6.3% of the state’s territory and is home to 16.2...
Catalonia’s institution of self-government is the Generalitat, which is embedded within the Spanish territorial model as an autonomous community (AC). This territorial model is not formally designated in the Spanish Constitution (SC) of 1978 but it is informally called the Estado de las Autonomías (State of Autonomies). The Estado de las Autonomías...
Catalonia recovered its political autonomy during Spain’s period of transition to democracy in 1977. However, Catalonia’s institutions and constitutions date back to the Middle Ages. In 1137, the County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon were unified under a single dynasty to create the Crown of Aragon. The Crown of Aragon and Catalonia kept th...
The legal basis of autonomy in Spain is set out in Section VIII of the 1978 Spanish Constitution (SC). Article 137 of this section defines the state as being organized into autonomous communities, provinces and municipalities. Chapter III of this section defines the formation of the autonomous communities as the result of efforts by existing provin...
Catalonia has a parliamentary form of government with a strong prime minister called president de la Generalitat. There are three essential self-government institutions: the parliament, the presidency of the Generalitat, and the government. The unicameral parliament is an independent institution that represents the people of Catalonia. It consists ...
The Spanish Constitution (SC) does not establish a closed list of exclusive powers for the autonomous communities (ACs). Such powers are regulated in the Statutes of Autonomy, with residual powers belonging to the central government. However, as mentioned in section 3 of this paper, important clauses and powers are constantly exerted by central gov...
Catalonia is a relatively rich region of Spain. As mentioned earlier, it is home to around 16% of the Spanish population (National Statistics Institute 2020b), it generates 19% of the total GDP (National Statistics Institute 2020a) and accounts for around 25% of Spain’s exports and tourism (Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism 2021). Catalonia h...
The 1978 Spanish Constitution (SC) did not establish any principle of collaboration or loyalty to be applied in a system of intergovernmental relations (IGR). In fact, there was a clear contradiction between the objective of decentralization and the absence of these basic principles of any federal design. The SC contains no institutional provision ...
Linguistic communities in Catalonia are not divided by ethnic or territorial lines as they are in other contexts. Nevertheless, Catalonia’s linguistic policies have been contested during recent years by a minority of Spanish speakers in Catalonia. This is, therefore, a case of internal relations worthy of mention in this section. As noted in the fi...
Catalonia’s Aran Valley is an illustrative example of asymmetry and internal territorial autonomy. Aran is located in the West Pyrenees, in the province of Lleida. It has 9,930 inhabitants and it covers an area of 600 km2. Aran has its own institutional organization; therefore, it constitutes a case of special rights within Catalonia. Aran’s govern...
Aug 21, 2023 · About sharing. Proud of its own identity and language, Catalonia is one of Spain's richest and most highly industrialised regions, and also one of the most independent-minded. Tourism is an ...
During the Diada, Catalonia’s national day, thousands of pro-independence demonstrators went on the streets. The event set off a wave of large-scale demonstrations demanding an independence ...
Nov 1, 2019 · Catalonia has its own cultural identity and a robust separatist movement, despite crackdowns from Madrid. An autonomous region in northeastern Spain with its own linguistic and cultural identity ...
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Moreover, the Constitutional Court either totally or partially reinterpreted 23 other articles and four additional provisions, including the third additional provision, which held that “the State’s investment in Catalonia in infrastructure, excluding the Inter-territorial Compensation Fund, shall be equal to Catalonia’s relative share of GDP in relation to the State’s GDP for a period of seven years”.6 The Constitutional Court’s ruling against the Statute rang the death knell of ...
