The survey published by La Vanguardia this past Monday emphatically shows, as echoed by the accompanying headline, that 80% of Catalans support an “economic agreement for Catalonia.” And this percentage might even increase, since only 15% are against it and the remaining 5% swing back and forth between indifference and incomprehension. It is significant that the study openly calls for “an economic agreement similar to the one in the Basque Country,” resisting the temptation to use the ambiguous and all-inclusive expression “fiscal pact.”
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