http://www.open.cat/ http://www.open.cat/img/contingut/logo.png ca http://www.open.cat/article/en/1286/wind-energy-a-sector-to-promote-in-roussillon-and-emporda http://www.open.cat/article/en/1286/wind-energy-a-sector-to-promote-in-roussillon-and-emporda#comentaris Fri, 18 May 2012 22:30:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1286/wind-energy-a-sector-to-promote-in-roussillon-and-emporda
The Franco-Spanish hesitation on the bottom of the card crisis condition eurocatalane wind, which can be a visible pole at European level. In a slow evolution, in Roussillon, parks pioneers of Opoul-Perillos and Rivesaltes, totaling 14 turbines and 18.5 MW, were launched in 2003. Then, a Wind Development Zone (EDZ) of 164 hectares in the municipality of Fourques, approved in December 2009 by the Community of communes of Aspres, was rejected in December 2010 by the Regional Direction of Industry. But several examples invite catching up, especially against the Aude Languedoc. Thus, the proposed Ecopark Catalan envisaged for 2014 by the Greater Perpignan Méditerranée on the heights of Commons Baixas, Calce Pézilla-la-Rivière, Villeneuve-la-Rivière, part of an offer to come. The implementation of this future reference, with 35 wind turbines producing 96 megawatts, is entrusted to EDF Energies Nouvelles, through the company "renewable energy Catalan Park", located in Courbevoie, near Paris. This advanced wife ZDE a State-approved as part of the Grenelle Environment Forum launched in 2007 by the Department of Ecology. In terms of legal advances, May 16, 2012, the Montpellier Administrative Court dismissed "Força Real Association for the Protection of the Site" (FRACAS), who had demanded, April 10, the suspension of the four necessary permits, the validated March 29, 2012 by the prefect of the territory. Previously, the Ecopark has overcome the adversities of Meteo France, Civil Aviation and the National Institute of Origin and Quality (INAO), the latter claiming damage to surrounding vineyards, while the House of Roussillon Agriculture issued a favorable opinion in 2011. Beyond the turpitude related to major projects, the advent of the industrial site, on a budget of 100 million euros, is an event in Roussillon, in a search for energy independence guaranteed by the solar force and the two prevailing winds, marinade and Tramontana.

Objective of 101.35 megawatts for the Alt Empordà

By its heavy exposure to the north wind, the Alt Empordà, adjoining a windy Roussillon equally, is the only sector of the province of Girona erected in wind Priority Development Area (MDA). A wind farm, a pioneer in Spain, worked there from 1984 to 1992 in the town of Garriguella, but the achievements are slow to emerge: the Alt Empordà is pending and four projects authorized in 2006 by the Catalan government, providing a production of 3500 MW in 2015 for the autonomous Catalonia. This is the massive wind farm of La Jonquera, enjoying 17 wind turbines with an output of 49.5 megawatts, the "Park Molinars" Colera, with 13 wind turbines with 26 megawatts, the "Park Tramuntana" Portbou with 17 wind turbines to 21.25 MW and the "Park of Banys Mercè" Capmany, with three cameras for 4.60 MW. In this set of 101.35 MW of power plants under consideration are added in the municipalities of Darnius, Agullana, Cantallops, Espolla, and Sant Climent Masarac, located, like the first, near or in the Alberes. This element of the government plan of Energy 2006-2015, which excludes the achievements below 5 MW turbines and 10, received the confidence of many mayors and opposition of the collective Salvem Empordà, the Civic Platform Anti- mills Portbou Altempordanesa of the Institution for the Study and Defence of Nature (Iaden) and the Association's respect the Albera. It is on the wind map of Catalonia, approved by the Catalan government in early 2010, suspended following the political change occurred in November and then shut down by the Court of Justice of Catalonia in February 2011.

Determining public, than the South

The procrastination of many wind record is illustrated in the South by a public determination and mobilize popular superior in numbers and strategies to the realities of northern Catalonia. Among the local players of energy development are in fact the local district Board of Alt Empordà, set in will and power of consensus, the powerful economic cluster promoted by the Association of Wind Catalonia (EOLICCAT) and the Office of Mayors for energy of Catalonia. Outstanding political and economic map of the South Catalan Energy, corrected in 2011, representing 769 MW, including 180 for the Alt Empordà, which would exceed the ZDF ZDE north and parks appendices.

The alternative energy, against the landscape?

Between realism frenzied, fears of damage to the environment and sustainable development requirements globalized, the wind map of Perpignan-Figueres line is original by its extraordinary natural resource, the north wind. Inconvenience tourism is matched by the wind turbines themselves, warts brandished in landscape by opponents. Wind is part of the debate here between economic development and the sanctuary of territorial charter seaside, the remaining set indexed on the ambivalence of the need for environmental clean energy and postcards frozen.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1284/france-advance-to-the-territorial-autonomy http://www.open.cat/article/en/1284/france-advance-to-the-territorial-autonomy#comentaris Mon, 14 May 2012 00:30:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1284/france-advance-to-the-territorial-autonomy
Institutional relations on the axis Perpignan-Girona for disparities in decision-making powers, that is to say, capacity for action inherent in the political history of the territories. Thus, the upper margin of initiative returns to South Catalonia under Spanish administration, compared to northern Catalonia, under French administration. On this principle, the Catalan government, "Autonomous Community" like 16 other Spanish territories, provides access to health care to undocumented immigrants and employment policies, the city councils of Banyoles and Figueres provide training to the creation and the revitalization of businesses, while President Catalan converse with leaders of the European Union. Many skills that were unthinkable at the regional or local level in France in 2012. However, if the concept of political autonomy has evolved in France during the twentieth century, taking on separatist overtones since the 1970s, attenuation is affirmed, in favor of an awareness of peripheral models to the hexagon . Thus, the territorial reorganization of French territory in the framework of state reform has allowed the introduction in August 2007, the "Law of autonomy of universities," officially "Act on the freedoms and responsibilities of universities" . Previously, the concept of autonomy "are not limited to the law of July 2011 on the personal autonomy allowance.

In 2002, the self loses its separatist connotations

Politically, this semantic evolution in a microclimate that puts the French word "autonomy" as synonymous with independence, was evident in 2002 through the candidate Alain Madelin as President of the French Republic, for which "A modern state is a deeply decentralized state that relies on regions with a very large autonomous power. " Ten years later, the centrist candidate for president, Francois Bayrou, replaçait this subject in the viewfinder of the state reform, saying "the momentum regions can only come from the regions themselves," thereby certifying an intention to develop the land freedoms. Bayrou, inspired by European standards, advancing the idea that "The autonomy of initiative and decision-making is absolutely necessary." The same sequence called political candidate for the Greens-European ecology, Eva Joly, appeared in favor of "autonomous regions".

François Hollande and Regional Autonomy

Even the presidential campaign of 2012 was the occasion of a historic position of the candidate Francois Hollande, who evacuated the concept of autonomy its dust "autonomists", demanding and marginal. In this pre-election context, Mr. Holland announced a decentralization bill before the end of 2012, for a better delineation of the powers held by local authorities and a repositioning of the State, in a "new phase of decentralization." Mr. Holland, incorporating the required elements in the 54th of his "60 commitments for France," wanted a reform of local taxation "giving more autonomy to the communes, departments and regions," with this condition in return for "a greatest responsibility ", but a touch territorial competitiveness, registered in faits.Cette for decentralization must accrue to the State by way of a" High Council of the territories "responsible for initiating such an advanced but would take autonomy to the territories. On the axis Perpignan-Girona, this development would lead to a subsequent learning to centuries of disempowerment and operations assigned to the higher scale. This French exception, unique in Europe, is a pitfall of territorial construction eurocatalane. For until then, a crucial option for Perpignan had to come from Montpellier to be validated in Paris, or even directly in Paris, at the risk of distortions and contradictions. Possibly, the "France of territories", contained in future legislation "Accountability and Trust" means a change for the department of Pyrenees-Orientales and the Languedoc-Roussillon, which offers a nesting problem later. Indeed, the takeover already operated by the French regions within them causes a miniaturization of the national model for imitation and intellectual laziness.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1280/in-economics-catalonia-prefer-germany http://www.open.cat/article/en/1280/in-economics-catalonia-prefer-germany#comentaris Thu, 03 May 2012 23:00:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1280/in-economics-catalonia-prefer-germany
Rarely acknowledged, the divergence between economic models is an unavoidable issue in trade between the perimeters of Perpignan and Girona. Indeed, the South Catalonia, often imitative of France in cultural policy, chose Germany as a business model and spearheading a European recovery. The desire Catalan leadership assumed by this country was confirmed April 29, 2012 by the President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, for which "it is necessary that Europe, led by Germany, launches growth policies capable to restore hope in the future with confidence". It was completed about May 2, 2012 by his mentor and predecessor as president Catalan, Jordi Pujol, for which France must be a counterweight, as the German influence on the European economic strategies "did not promote the general improvement the country - France - but revived the old demons of confrontation." That same day, Mr. Pujol evoked the recent years, citing a "forced tandem" between Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, while suggesting an incompatibility of socio-economic models. Artur Mas underweighted, during an speech in Barcelona in front ont the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi: "The Europa is one of the few regions in the world economy was able to locate for good being and social justice, and not the reverse."  He continued, speaking in a roll any "Catalonia is a European country (...) by its history, identity and purpose (...) on the basis of effort, creativity, spirit of exceeding self and modernity." By political affiliation, Mr. Mas, leader of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) founded by Jordi Pujol, adherent of European Liberal, Democrat and Reformist Party on the european parliament, actually defends a social standard based on effort, and the requirement of self-control. since 2010, advocating a spirit roundness, objectively opposed to the French scheme, the latter lost their marks facing global competition and its obvious corollary, competitiveness, made compelling by the crisis.

The southern Catalonia, economically incompatible with France?

The notion of effort, absent from the official language in France by restraining effect of a crisis perceived as external, is evident in the Catalan President: "austerity policies will continue, which is not bad as such. They must be maintained". This ideological position, which would be a provocation in a North-Catalan, agrees with the statements made on the same May 2, 2012 by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the enemy of the idea that "you always spend money for economic growth". On these aspects, the confluence of the Catalan and German dominant thoughts, the first incentive to export more economically than ever, the second recasting the Rhineland model, any two dodging the direct injection of public funds in the productive economy, combines liberalism in social welfare. Mr. Mas confirms this junction by extending a European strategy that allows to "combine the austerity policies to growth policies." This austerity openly avowed, added to a desire to dynamic, is a common Catalan-German, just as that a French approaches towards the abyss. induced distance is necessarily present between Perpignan and Figueres, Girona, despite the geographical proximity misleading.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1277/the-sport-making-territory-in-silence http://www.open.cat/article/en/1277/the-sport-making-territory-in-silence#comentaris Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:49:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1277/the-sport-making-territory-in-silence
The noisiest initiatives of territorial harmonization are not the most concrete, indeed the most perennial, in the image of the discreet and solid progress of the club of football in room Futsal Côte Vermeille (FCV), founded in 2003 in the town of Port-Vendres. This training|formation, around which a hundred players, trainers and leaders orbit, assures efficiently her presence within the Catalan Federation of Futsal, herself connected to the Catalan Federation of Football, all two fit in Barcelona. After a progressive route of her team first male, integrated in division «Preferent» of the Championship of Catalonia, the feminine version of the FCV has reached the 1st division of Catalan feminine futsal in April 2012, in a comforting silence. Because this realization, which partakes of a territorial building eurocatalane, is carried out without request of the European authorities, without «cross-border» terminology nor médiatisation based on this criterion. On the contrary, it is a matter of a fact of spontaneity, supported by several institutional partners and private sectors of the Roussillon, of which the town halls of Port-Vendres and Collioure and several firms|undertakings of the Vermeille Coast. The FCV, also signaled next to the one connected to the district of the Pyrenees-Eastern of Football, faces regularly the teams of Porqueres, Banyoles, Blanes, Lloret of Mar, formed in the region of Girona. Moved by a stable leading team and justified, carrying a discipline that wins his|her|its letters of nobility, the FCV positions the Vermeille Coast in the south-Catalan minds, with strength and softness. Beyond the traditional values of the sport, this simple process, whose economic openings should appear to date, favors the reinforcement of a concrete relational tissue, in a modesty that characterizes the fundamental actors of the territories.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1273/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-until-the-fall-2013 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1273/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-until-the-fall-2013#comentaris Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:21:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1273/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-until-the-fall-2013
Commissioning of the high-speed line between Barcelona and Perpignan is an Arles initiated since the 1990s. The last shot behind schedule, announced on 12 March and related to the failure of two tenders for work, is indeed confirmed and extended. The first embodiment includes the missing rail mounting and additional devices on 12.8 km, between the referral center of Mollet del Vallès, north of Barcelona, ​​and the station at La Sagrera, located in the latter city. The second concerns the completion of the junction inside the TGV train station of Girona. Thursday, April 12, 2012, the Secretary delegated to the Territory and Mobility of the Catalan government, Damià Calvet, spoke the prolongation of the latest setback, announcing delivery of the line "in the third quarter" in 2013, due to a delay execution of incompressible two sites.

These achievements, which cost 33 million euros, are being validated Administrative between Spanish public company Adif, delegate, and the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. But the frantic acceleration of work involved, briefly considered by policy makers and economic of the region of Girona, will be reflected in any reality. The revelation of Mr. Calvet, who is not a real surprise in this matter subject to many random deadlines, was made during a lecture in Girona as part of the foundation of public Circle Infrastructure . In reality, the official information on this delay was quietly issued from Wednesday, April 11 at the time of the last meeting of the Monitoring Committee work on the TGV in Catalonia. At this meeting, conducted in the presence of Spanish and Catalan government authorities, the Director General of Transport and Mobility of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Ricard Font, took cognizance of the fact that the Spanish government was not considering opening a of the line before the period mentioned.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1272/in-perpignan-networking-through-culture http://www.open.cat/article/en/1272/in-perpignan-networking-through-culture#comentaris Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:29:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1272/in-perpignan-networking-through-culture
Conjugating the culture and the economics, on the way in force in Catalonia of the South or in the image of the sponsorship of firms spilled in Europe, is the formula developed in Perpignan by Òmnium Catalunya Nord, branch of the powerful foundation Òmnium, created in 1961 in Barcelona. Very of 25,000 members, this organism, whose Latin name indicates a vocation to appeal to the whole of the non-trading company, organizes on April 30th, 2012, in Perpignan, a literary evening, the "Nit of Sant Jordi", connected to the usual party literary person of the same name, organized on April 23rd. This evening of prestige, with meal gastronomic realized by the chef Franck Séguret, of the restaurant perpignanais Le Clos des Lys, and strong institutional representation, will be the opportunity of plentiful deliveries of prices|prizes, for a value of 9500 euros, attributed according to the categories "Young writers", "Journalism", "testing and biography sociological, historical, talks about politics or cultural", or still "Poetry", "Literature for children" and "Education". The institutional partners will be the Town Hall of Perpignan, the Representation in Perpignan of the Catalan Government, the Institute of Catalans Studies and the Department Council of the Pyrenees-Eastern. This Nit of Sant Jordi has|arranges for economic partner the Union For the Firms|Undertakings of the Pyrenees-Eastern and will have Opencat for new entering among his|her|its intermediaries. Òmnium Catalunya Nord, partner of rugby clubs USAP and Catalan Dragons, wishes to develop North in Catalonia a dynamic economic mind, in connection with the networks south-Catalan decisive. In a cultural atmosphere, this strategy of networking carries a new breath in Roussillon, on the eve of a geographic reconciliation instituted by the TGV. This event is programmed in the church of the Dominicans of Perpignan, on Monday, April 2012 from 20h30 30th. Information and reservations by email and to the 04 68 73 05 19.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1270/tgv-in-rivesaltes-absent-from-state-projects http://www.open.cat/article/en/1270/tgv-in-rivesaltes-absent-from-state-projects#comentaris Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:25:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1270/tgv-in-rivesaltes-absent-from-state-projects
First referred to by the SNCF in 1995, the possibility of a train station in Rivesaltes, 10 km north of downtown Perpignan, does not appear on the official list of projects released March 22, 2012. In a mostly local and territorial infrastructure was considered during the 2000s, during the early stages of public debate on the introduction of High Speed ​​in Roussillon, in the municipality of Soler, 9 km west Perpignan, Rivesaltes and the perimeter, made ​​attractive by the proximity of the A9 motorway and the airport of Perpignan-Rivesaltes. The mayor of Rivesaltes also blocked its Local Development Plan (PLU) in the case of this additional station, whose relevance was relaunched in December 2012 mediatically without echoing a real action from the State . But according to an updated evaluation taking into account a potential intermodal transportation of passengers weakened by the loss of flux from the airport of Roussillon, Rivesaltes TGV station is only one idea. It does not form part of future implementations presented March 22 in Montpellier by Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), which is limited to the press, to list three common Languedoc, Beziers ie, with four possibilities Nissan-Lez-Ensérune, holds two proposals, and Narbonne, where three options in the debate. Each of these areas, or only one or two in terms of economic difficulties, is concerned a future station of the "New Line" High Speed ​​Perpignan-Montpellier, on a horizon that hope is at 2020. Around this issue, RFF will unveil its recommendations to the Ministry of Transport in July 2012, the SNCF will do the same in November, then the state will decide definitively in 2013.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1269/develop-industry-in-roussillon-it-is-possible http://www.open.cat/article/en/1269/develop-industry-in-roussillon-it-is-possible#comentaris Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:58:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1269/develop-industry-in-roussillon-it-is-possible
If the second part of the twentieth century has weakened some industrial spirit in the Pyrenees-Orientales, several initiatives to revive the idea of ​​developing a more productive economy for this territory. Early 2012, Miles Brewery, founded in 1928 in Perpignan and installed in the 1970s to Toulouges, the nearest place, has obtained exclusive bottling massive Oasis Tropical drink, under the umbrella group original French Orangina Schweppes, owned by Suntory of Japan. Ensuring that packaging for the entire French territory, Milles has a continuity of expertise, secured by a continuous family history. Created around a drink design easy lemonade "Limonette Milles", this company won a concession in 1950 manufacturing and bottling the drink Orangina for northern Catalonia and the neighboring departments of Aude, Herault and Ariège. She also inserted in a global economy in 1997 by winning the same functions for the U.S. brand Pepsi-Cola.

Intellectual deviance of a "tourist vocation"

This adaptation to the times and demands of a market characterized by the growth and consolidation of brands, has the virtue of demonstrating that an industry is possible in Roussillon. It is exclusive or, in the image of the paper mill installed Palalda Arjowiggins medical, or KSM, the leading French manufacturer of gates, from Argeles-sur-mer, production units networked, sometimes mandated for outsourcing of products patented elsewhere. But this is the demonstration of viability in the extreme south of the French territory, as opposed to intellectual deviance, driven by an industry cliché, suggesting an exclusively tourist zoning. Brewery Miles is only 60 employees and a turnover of 20 million euros in 2011, but a likely sustainability and a beacon. Its most famous spring water Semillante, launched in 1999, occupies first place in 2012 among consumers of the surrounding territory, like the many waters drawn and marketed in the province of Girona, a diagram Territorial puzzle, common in southern Catalonia, Spain and Italy.

Cémoi giant chocolate, without leaving the USA Perpignan

2012 was also the year of introduction in the U.S. chocolate Cémoi of Perpignan, where the brand maintains its global headquarters and has a production site on space Torremila, near the airport of Roussillon. The "little bear, Marshmallow", its flagship product, is distributed in the USA and Canada since January 2012, under the name "So Pretty". This delicacy is made launched in 1962 to 400 million units yearly at Villeneuve d'Ascq, more than 1000 km of the Catalan region, demonstrating the possibility of radiation of Roussillon, following the acquisition of SMEs based strategy of Cémoi. This group, which seeks 900 million euros in turnover by 2015, wishes to exceed its current 35% of international sales. Reinforced by large investments to increase its economic performance and its specialization, the house has its origins in Cémoi techniques Iberian established in 1814 in the valley of Vallespir, in course of time and unofficially "border". Two centuries later, this chocolate inspired the Americas, now from the African continent, where Cémoi chose the Ivory Coast in 1996 to establish a processing plant, found in North America.

An industrial desert dotted with giant

With 220 employees in Perpignan, Cémoi is both a historic stubborn persistence of outsourcing, and a station wagon and a future. This industry represents 13 chocolate Catalan continuity, including 9 in French territory and the other four in Barcelona, ​​Veitschochheim (Germany), Szczecin (Poland), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Cardiff (Wales). The global footprint of this juggernaut is an imbalance at the margin of small industrial landscape of Roussillon. It also expresses a contrast with the province of Girona, with the chocolate industry, concentrated in Banyoles and Olot, has a lower radiation. But this territory was maintained, developed or transformed in productive activities, including food processing, mechanical and plastics production and technology solutions and electronic. The zone of influence of Perpignan and contains few leading industries but rare, like cigarette papers Republic technologies and Cémoi, surviving others, especially dolls Bella, former European leader disappeared in 1984, or Production Challenge, the jewel of French pornographic productions, liquidated in 1999. In contrast to this desert dotted with giant, in the province of Girona updates from an industrial spirit of the nineteenth century, illustrated by a myriad of companies operating internationally, far more numerous and providers of jobs.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1267/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-postponed-to-spring-2013 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1267/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-postponed-to-spring-2013#comentaris Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1267/the-tgv-perpignan-barcelona-postponed-to-spring-2013
The high-speed link between Perpignan and Barcelona, ​​we announced previously in 1992, requires patience, because a further delay of realization is revealed under an administrative fault of the public company ADIF, associated with the State Spanish. However, the section between Perpignan and Girona Nord is virtually completed. Commissioning of the high-speed line between Barcelona and Perpignan in its entirety, envisaged by the end of 2012, will not be accomplished at this time, communicated frequently since 2010. According to revelations made Monday, March 12, 2012 in Barcelona, ​​the public company ADIF, in charge of the project between La Jonquera and the same city, says a delay in publication of two tenders required for two major achievements in their quasi-underground entirety. One relates to the mounting rails and attached devices on a stretch of 12.8 km between the referral center of Mollet del Vallès, north of Barcelona, ​​and the station at La Sagrera, also located in the Catalan capital . In this sector, all prior arrangements, however, is completed. The other delay is the finalization of the junction in the TGV station of Girona, which currently receives the conventional train. The approach failed, initially scheduled for October 2011, should reach at the end of March 2012, after a hiatus of nearly six months. The same Monday, the Department-Department of Land and Sustainable Development of the Catalan government has noted without surprise of this new wrinkle and immediately planned the inauguration of the overall link to the spring of 2013. For its part, ADIF hastened to promise the immediate launch procedures for launching calls for tenders missing. This amazing improvisation receives administrative disapproval of much of the political and economic decision makers of major South Catalan. The general feeling towards the wanderings of this file is generally attributed to a form of neglect of the Spanish State towards the opening of the Iberian Peninsula of Europe, by Catalonia, as they may find in this way a Hispanic preponderance on the continent.

60% of overhead lines installed between Figueres and Barcelona

While the only portion of operational line, Perpignan-Figueres, in operation since December 2010, the sustained pace of work between Barcelona and Figueres presented encouraging data at March 12. To date, the section between Figueres and Sant Julia de Ramis, north of Girona, was fully completed and had been testing techniques. The track laying was in progress in the tunnel of Sant Julia de Ramis-Girona. A 60% overhead wires were in office between Figueres and Barcelona and 93% heavy infrastructure had been delivered, this aspect including overpasses, bridges, ballast and electrical relays.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1265/girona-star-magazines-coincidence http://www.open.cat/article/en/1265/girona-star-magazines-coincidence#comentaris Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:45:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1265/girona-star-magazines-coincidence
The city of Girona manages its transformation by adding strong evidence of suitability to the twenty-first century. His rigorous transformation, consecrated in 1991 by the installation of its new university and embellished potential assets of fashionable city, is sanctioned in 2012 by the interest of two prestigious publications. The monthly Descobrir Catalunya devotes his number 166 in March with the headline "Moments of good life in a charming town". Without disguise, a fine selection of assets is detailed, including a rich history, traditions surjouées not, a status called "capital of good food" and an artistic excitement spread to the year, often comparable to the offer Montpellier or Toulouse. In an eminently Barcelona and objectively "bobo", the historical center, the ambience and lifestyle, the human scale of Girona, exalt the group title Sàpiens Publicacions, located in Badalona. This external perception, prescribers own tourist destinations, highlights the "introverted" of people, obviously players a unique and authentic Catalonia in the eyes of the target, the Barcelona broadest sense. Through Descobrir Catalunya it comes to prosperity and beauty of city for souls in search of harmony, like the title "Florence and Girona, cousins ​​of mind", ventured in 2009 by the magazine Cap Perpignan Catalonia.

Perpignan remembers the "stinking city"

In contrast, the number 67 of the Catalan Lands Quarterly, published in March 2012 in Perpignan, evokes the same city in terms of economic crisis, new ambitions and an "irresistible attraction", but no prosperity. Journals of the magazine Midi performs a comparative failure in addressing the old atmosphere of a city at the entrance "sickening", in a fragmented perspective, obviously requiring Barcelona and the rest of the Iberian Peninsula to enter Girona by the South. About the old olfactory pain, from the paper mill Torraspapel, the magazine does not indicate that it still works on ISO standards: the atmosphere has changed but the industry remained, between lifestyle and productivity. However, the majority age group in the city, 35-44 years, met 14.48% of unemployment rate in February 2012, against just 4.79% in November 2006, two percentages are enviable to Perpignan (source: Deputation of Girona).

Views duels, double promotion

The views of Girona is well duels and the city enjoys a double promotion that allows it to market its global offer: Catalan Lands remain on clearing old clichés and seeks to evoke the difficulties of the moment without enter the social world of the city, the character of its people and real life, where mix of neighborhoods and communities a degree of artistic creation, which appear to assume the fact to live somewhere and wireless Internet for free all. This is still a vision-based, but foreign, which are beyond the theatrical events of the seventh or alternative art of Girona, presumably for fear of the tongue, while the Arab baths and the Jewish quarter, because the stones do not speak, to add interest. However, in the eyes of Descobrir Catalunya, the evidence relating to the living culture are cause for additional stays parallel to the historic elements, including the wall and the imprint of the modernist architect Rafael Maso. Duels are also paths of this reinvention, whose simultaneity media owes nothing to chance, the city comes out winner after both acted and still act, since 1979, the first municipal elections consecutive Franco regime.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1262/intercomprehension-linguistic-tool-territorial http://www.open.cat/article/en/1262/intercomprehension-linguistic-tool-territorial#comentaris Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:04:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1262/intercomprehension-linguistic-tool-territorial
The perfect oral communication between Roussillon and Catalonia South is part of history, but recent past. In its regular practice, the Catalan language, single vector of communication for 1000 years, the North suffered a collapse Albères since the 1960s, while the English defeated the French education system in the South. The constant is that of an abyss, at the same encouragement to a public domain "border" which dispensed with when the Catalan name gave her body.

Territories disabled

On the sidelines of training devices, the languages ​​of the Perpignan-Figueres-axis Girona overlap with dissimilar cases: to promote tourism, the handling of the French language, La Jonquera on the Costa Brava, is a reality since the 1950s. Since the Pyrénées-Orientales, formerly Catalan monolingual, have almost completely embraced the French monolingualism, without finding equilibrium French-Catalan, like the Catalan-Spanish tandem for the province of Girona. This evolution, contemporary geopolitical opening,-depleted, mainly in the North, especially since the fracture border produced by the Franco regime from 1939 to 1975 has strengthened the relationship between disability and two territories.

Understand a language without speaking

At the turn of the century, the dialogue between people of Roussillon and the province of Girona can take place in Catalan, French, Castilian and English, without predominance. In contribution to this area devoid of any scientific study, the principle of maintaining their natural language by the interlocutors is clear: one invites the other to enter his own words, fed nuances that would disappear if he used the language of the other. This mutual understanding, avoiding any intellectual supremacy between individuals, establishes a framework of relationships leading to geographical space eurocatalan. Generically, this view is defended by the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Foreign Languages ​​notemakers (ACEDLE), whose books are in August 2008 the interest of "reception strategies using the extra-linguistic in any process of understanding unknown language". Citing an experiment conducted by the Language Centre of Salzburg as part of the project European Awareness and Intercomprehension, this Paris-based structure provides a path to the relationship between Catalonia and Roussillon South instant, requesting otherness. This practice, taught at the University of Perpignan (UPVD) since February 2012, is based on a formal trust the speaker of another language: first check if the second sufficient attention and specific condition of good communication. A closer the passive bilingualism, codified this method in an academic setting where reality finds its prospector Perpignan is addressed to a French entrepreneur of Figueres, which meets in Catalan or Spanish, then the first again in French . In Perpignan, the associated learning based on the analysis of Latin languages, which can penetrate neighboring universes, with support from the university network Eurocampus Pyrenees-Mediterranean, launched by governments or Region Languedoc-Roussillon, Catalonia, Balearic Islands and Midi-Pyrenees.

The English spoken badly but still spoke

Taking into account this mutual understanding which already wore the merchants of the Middle Ages in response to a lack of government schemes to language proximity between Perpignan and Girona. In this diversity old umbrella, an English language course evil spoken but spoken by all, is part of the present and the future, given the impossibility of Catalan republican France. The challenge ahead is however accentuated by a difference of substance: in contact with the world city of Barcelona, ​​Girona province, facing the new crisis, the economic concepts quickly adopted Anglo-Saxon language in association with induced. Simultaneously, the overall Roussillon, immersed in an earlier crisis, dodging the promotion of English and Catalan still perceived as a provincial decline, resulting in a singular monolingualism. Free content policy, mutual understanding provides an excellent solution, the heart of a territorial unit whose acting out economic suffer from feelings of fear language.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1258/ready-perpignan-visa-pour-limage-in-barcelona-role-model http://www.open.cat/article/en/1258/ready-perpignan-visa-pour-limage-in-barcelona-role-model#comentaris Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:45:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1258/ready-perpignan-visa-pour-limage-in-barcelona-role-model
On the eve of the launch of High Speed ​​Rail, the confrontation of the critical mass of Perpignan against that of Barcelona raises questions socioeconomic multiple Roussillon, as the Empordà and the Gironès, will they live a brain drain to the capital of Catalonia? The Barcelona metropolis, whose integration in the world is progressing on the sidelines of the crisis, she will shade the trio Perpignan-Figueres-Girona? Conversely, thanks to overcome a distance, these three cities will benefit them more does the image of Barcelona, ​​by the principle of capillary action? Barcelona she spread a positive influence, especially in Perpignan, which will have to demonstrate its advantages? These questions are jostled by some examples that demonstrate a win-win scheme as possible, with the sole condition of having, in towns and smaller, eligible assets in a world city. The momentum still virtual, the festival Visa pour l'Image, most important event in the Pyrenees-Orientales, global gold standard in photojournalism, organized since 1989 in Perpignan, a door opens in 2012. March 1 to May 28, the Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) in Barcelona is home to a selection of work unveiled at the 2011 edition, with all the public a vision of world affairs through the agencies Noor , and Vu, and the magazine Days Japan and Getty Images. Barcelona, ​​in its global status, is benefiting from the contribution of the North, through reports that suggest the major Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, the Mexican narcoculture and mutilation of women in Uganda. Entitled "More journalism" and organized in partnership with the Photographic Social Vision Foundation, this exhibition Perpignan to Barcelona is a first since the inception of Visa pour l'Image. This relocation contains in itself a positive promotion of Perpignan by a universal way, and added value for Barcelona.

An inventory of territories

On this principle, on the eve of a new historical sequence indicated by a TGV Perpignan-Barcelona forcing the visibility of the first two cities and inviting them to productive exchanges, identifying strengths of Roussillon admissible internationally is compelling. The areas of innovation and art, communication and sports, providing credible leads, Barcelona playing the role, if not new assessment authority, a provider of public and customers. This pattern, which induces a rigorous inventory of areas, led the city of Figueres, until now locked in an international image exclusively linked to Salvador Dalí, to fabricate an international circus festival, first published in March 2012, takes place sold out. Previously, in January 2012, Girona, launched a year of his decidedly sexy new image, through a campaign "Girona 10" with a hotel and restaurant charging 10 euros for a week-end , all wrapped in a marketing strategy based on lifestyle, the beautiful location and variety of pleasures. Without reaching the status of true deposits, these areas of activity and creativity, like the jewel Visa pour l'Image, are the strong points of rethinking cities, claiming or claim their own share of light next to the lighthouse Barcelona.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1254/trade-should-roussillon-moved-to-la-jonquera http://www.open.cat/article/en/1254/trade-should-roussillon-moved-to-la-jonquera#comentaris Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:21:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1254/trade-should-roussillon-moved-to-la-jonquera
The scope of cross-border trade, evoked by Opencat through the prism of the inequalities between Perpignan and Figueres, is now illustrated by the emergence of "Gran Jonquera". The strategy of the future shopping center in American sizes, unveiled February 15, 2012, is exemplary international outreach. The catchment area declared, only French, extends north of Montpellier to Castelnaudary, Roussillon and Narbonne constituting the preferential target for a matching set strangely the perimeter of the Languedoc-Roussillon region, 1.5 million people. La Jonquera, which spilled 15,000 buses French customers in 2009, has received 7 million visitors in 2011. Its mall "shopping & outlet", arranged by the group Escudero, holder of several supermarkets in the same municipality, ensures long before it opened its promotion in French, Catalan, Spanish and English, while transcending the powerful notion of borders. Even better for the region of the Empordà, worse for the Roussillon, this is a new leveraging of the retirement location of La Jonquera, ideally located in Spain, but close enough to be in France for an appendix of type "duty free". In a first step, starting in spring 2013, an area of ​​12,000 m2 of commercial space will be mainly devoted to clothing and household goods, then a second phase, bringing the total to 30,000 m2, to house 100 different brands. On a construction budget of 50 million euros, Gran Jonquera announces forcefully a new century, marked by increased liberalization in the Iberian Peninsula, opposite to which France proximity, in this case northern Catalonia, s inquires into silence. Gran Jonquera, most accessible holidays South Catalan, will have fully flexible schedules, and demonstrate a change of scale in the works since the turn of the century official. This project was approved in 2009 under the Territorial Plan of Commercial Facilities (PTSEC) of the Generalitat of Catalonia, signals a new aggressiveness, driven by the crisis. He questions the positioning of the Pyrenees-Orientales, face-latitude boundary which, over the nineteenth and twentieth century, could be an advantage, by a statute of Franco-Spanish interface.

The Roussillon is it moving to La Jonquera?

In a deliberate leveraging the benefits of Perpignan-Figueres line, facing a real economic threat to the Roussillon, a common European attitude would be for business leaders northeastern Catalonia, grow their businesses in La Jonquera. In fact, taking advantage of this axis is accompanied Perpignan-Figueres, since the actual constitution of the Schengen area, several examples of discrete but convincing. This slight trend, begun in 2002 in the area of ​​corporate vehicles, residing in Roussillon and working in La Jonquera, just to prove a politically incorrect character in the defense of French commerce. This problem, in which the troubles of European construction have a definite influence, clearly raises the question of the future of a geographic area close enough to be unique, but enough to present an international commercial abyss.

The Roussillon it provides a sufficient response?

Facing Gran Jonquera, the response of Roussillon is embodied in the Commercial Business Park - Mall of Claira, also comes in full in spring 2013, which will include 16,000 m2 and an email from 70 stores, all driven Klépierre Ségécé companies and Carrefour Property. The loan-to-wear will be predominant in the reference area, which causes 60 million of work and is expected in the near future, be faced with a necessary liberalization schedules and days worked, directly related to French labor law themselves confronted with the flexibility measures of the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy in force since February 12, 2012. A Claira, the point of disadvantage is also the lack of scenery, opposite La Jonquera, which has a commercial tourism stays in French-tinged "Spain", despite a pervasive Francophonie. In reverse, if a French exoticism is potentially contained by the shopping center to a customer Claira South Catalan, it will find a vast challenge, cheaper products at home. In a recognition of this reality asymmetric nature eminently border of Gran Jonquera project created locally, should not meet its reciprocal. Indeed, the territorial logic of the current project in Claira, from structures established in the Paris region and Languedoc, an apparent sidelining of international reality shown by the proximity Jonquera, 5.5 km from the territory of the french Republic.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1253/university-of-perpignan-beyond-adolescence http://www.open.cat/article/en/1253/university-of-perpignan-beyond-adolescence#comentaris Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:35:00 +0200 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1253/university-of-perpignan-beyond-adolescence
The University of Perpignan (UPVD), avoiding its orbiting the center of Montpellier and conscious of the inexorable rise of the University of Girona (UDG), is "at a crossroads", the confession of his new President, Fabrice Lorente, expressed on March 30 during his nomination speech. 35 years old, this lecturer teaches social psychology and epidemiology to students in Science and technology of sport and physical activity (sport science) Font Romeu. Without wishing to turn openly University of Roussillon in the center of human resources, Mr. Lorente makes several lines of work, including reducing the number of students in 8000, against 9,500 students during the 2011-2012 academic year. The person defending this view, free of supply reduction: "The ten best universities do not exceed 15,000 students". The word "management" is not used, but the young President has instructed several Vice-Presidents of the revitalization of human resources and the full adoption of digital technologies on campus. It also evokes targeted partnerships with the University of Montpellier for some masters for careers in teaching, engineering, sport science and the field of prehistory. Rationalization and marketing reflected in corollaries, in the "uninhibited vision" of an institution "which positions offensively and not as a victim of such Act or any policy."

Lighten the murky waters of "borders"

The project "and-MTA", Campus Euro-Mediterranean Tourism and Water, which won in 2011 the status of Campus of Excellence International (CEI), was presented and validated in 2011 by the University of Islands Balearic Islands (UIB) and that of Girona, the High Council of Spanish Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), based in Girona. This tool is designed with an international innovation in sustainability of tourism and water management. Perpignan, therein represented indirectly through the Center for Research and Higher Education Pyrenees-Mediterranean (PRES-PM), there should spare him. Indeed, the gap between the capacity for initiative UPVD, by tradition of tutelage, will soon face the freedoms of Southern institutions, have a self-founder. In the example of this new campus, which will sit in Figueres, the new president will address a new stage Perpignan area of ​​"border", in fact highly international and Catalan, dedicated to the troubled waters. In this sense, the European academic standards, to be appointed liberals, tend to avoid the empty shells to European funds, from patterns of the past decade. A meaningful title on this major aspect, number 20 Engega magazine, published by the UDG in February 2012, says "At the University of Girona, we study, we do research, we are entrepreneurs."

An exciting opportunity, forced by economic crisis

Faced with the challenge of reducing the abyss Perpignan-Girona, M. Lorente shows to his credit the financial validation, in March 2012, the project-MIRÓ.eu pm. The grant of 5.5 million euros, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in partnership with the University of Girona, Balearic Islands and Paris VI - Pierre et Marie Curie University, the latter as manager of the Oceanological Observatory "Arago" from Banyuls-sur-mer, will create a digital platform for distance learning, French, Catalan, Spanish and English. Available in 2014 and funded until 2019, this process for the development of tourist areas, will have a strong ability to export. But beyond, in support of a dependent or changing attitudes in the Pyrenees-Orientales, Perpignan University, in late learning autonomy, will reach its critical mass quality in the period 2012-2016, corresponding to appointment of Mr. Lorente. The latter wants to make UPVD a "visible institution", with an "identity". This is to move beyond adolescent on a "crossroads" in the background of economic crisis, as an exciting opportunity, to seize by lack of alternatives.]]> http://www.open.cat/article/en/1252/the-french-state-gives-a-channel-to-catalan-television http://www.open.cat/article/en/1252/the-french-state-gives-a-channel-to-catalan-television#comentaris Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:59:00 +0100 http://www.open.cat/article/en/1252/the-french-state-gives-a-channel-to-catalan-television
In accordance with a franco-espagnol agreement, since February 8th, 2012, the four main chains|channels of the public company of Television of Catalonia, fit in Barcelona, are broadcast legally in French territory, after several years of tolerated presence. End 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (CSA), authority of regulation of the French media landscape, in conformity with the National Agency of the Frequencies (ANFR), has communicated with the different firms|undertakings of the Pyrenees-Eastern responsible for the diffusion of the chains|channels TNT the choice of the canal 37. Thus, the programs TV3, 33, 3/24 and High-Octane Gasoline 3, available until now on variable canals according to the zones and chosen without consultation, enjoy a unique reference. The emitting centers of Port-Vendres, Cerberus and Sorède thus are lined up, in the waiting of the delivery in operation of their equivalents to Prats of Molló, Tautavel, Saint-Genis des Fontaines, or still Arles-sur-Tech and Prades. Altogether, at the end of several months of consecutive hazards at the same time of the analogical system to the numeric system, the unity|whole of the Catalonia of the North owes soon to benefit from this bunch|prawn of television, by the intermediary of a fortnight of relay stations adjusted to an own, perfectly legal frequency. In parallel, the diffusion of this same offer on the plain of the Roussillon, basin the more important of the territory, from the Peak of the Saltworks, in Spanish territory, remains reserved to the canal 62, which has not undergone any modification.

The French television remains blocked at Figueres

The designation by the State of a unique canal for the Catalan television inside the perimeter of the Pyrenees-Eastern constitutes an unpublished fact. It|She makes with reference to a move led by the ministry of the foreign Businesses|Deals, seized|understood in 2011 by François Calvet, then delegated of the Pyrenees-Eastern, with the intermediary of the embassy of France in Madrid, solicited on this subject by the government Catalan. However, the reciprocity of the waves, cornerstone of the European building, is not a reality anymore on the axis Perpignan-Figueres-Girona. For|Since the autumn 2011, the emitting center of the Peak Neulós, with impregnable sight|view on Perpignan and Figueres, toil to broadcast his|her|its waves to the pool|basin|pelvis of 100,000 people of this last city and of the close towns, notably of the Costa Brava. The South face of this site, exclusively devoted to the diffusion of the French media, has progressively been fenced off for|since 2010, in order to contain the waves in French territory, not to parasitize the Catalan and Spanish chains|channels received in the plain of the Empordà.]]>