Reddit mentions of L'Europa que han fet fracassar: El centralisme dEstat contra la Unió Europea (Catalan Edition)

> Sure? I think Mariano is europhile.... -.-

He can be as much "europhile" as he wants, especially when it's about receiving money from EU institutions. But definitely not in favor of a federal Europe.

I don’t want to sound offensive, but this is a common critic with Southern Europe countries like Spain, Italy or Greece: countries that are really pro-EU when it's about receiving money, but pure anti-EU when it's about assuming obligations/responsibilities or giving away sovereignty in favor of the EU. And this is bad for the EU project interests, specially seeing it from the Northern Europe countries perspective (net contributors to the EU) who legitimately complain about this situation: it’s fair sending money to poorer EU regions, but it’s also fair seeing those same countries at least assume the obligations and responsibilities they are entitled to.

Spain is one of the best examples about this situation; which is criticized a lot by Catalan MEPs like Ramon Tremosa, who even wrote an entire book about this subject (and populisms like Brexit or Le Pen): The Europe they wanted to make fail. State centralism against the European Union.

Right now Spain is he EU Member State which complies least with EU legislation. According to a recent European Commission report on the application of European Union law in EU Member States, Spain was the country that failed to comply with the highest number of EC laws in 2016 with a total of 46 new infringement cases opened, the highest figure across all EU Member States. Spain also tops the overall ranking for infringement cases opened by the Commission with a total of 91 cases. This is a total disrespect for the EU and the EU law, when you notice some sectors of Spain’s economy live literally against EU law.

In the European Parliament, you can also see how against a federal Europe approach Spain is; almost anything that results with Spain losing some sovereignty in favor of the EU you see them fighting against as if they were “defending Spain” (you’d be amazed with some of the expressions Spanish MEPs use, as if EU was trying to “invade Spain”). Examples? From the banking union to the recent ports administration. The 2016 EU ports regulations is a (sad) example for me… The EU Parliament approved a law (absolute majority of Spanish MEPs voting against it) defending one of the historic revindications of the Catalans MEPs against Spain. This EU law stated the mandatory autonomous administrations of ports in all Europe. In Spain all ports (same with airports) are instead administrated from Madrid in a centralized, inefficient and antieconomic way (all money from all the Spanish ports must be sended to Madrid, meaning rich ports like Barcelona or Valencia can’t make use of the earnings and develop properly). This is an obsolete system that only Italy applies a part of Spain. A system right at the antipodes of efficient systems like the Germany’s or Netherland’s one (which the Catalan institutions prefer and have demanded for decades). So well, the EU finally approved a law that made mandatory the Catalan approach: decentralization of ports, and autonomous administration (more efficient, competitive and economic). Sounds perfect right? Well, Spain and Italy complained so hard against this (mandatory) EU law, that at the end the EU had to pass an "special exception" for them; meaning this EU law is applied in all EU countries except in Spain and Italy…. >_<