PROGRAMA 2000 STRATEGY FOR RECATALANIZATION

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1 PROGRAMA 2000 STRATEGY FOR RECATALANIZATION This document, dated 1990, was shared by the upper echelons of Catalan Government and personally revised by Jordi Pujol, President of Catalonia from 1980 to It laid the grounds for a Catalan nationalist strategy that has, slowly but steadily, taken place in Catalonia for the past 28 years. Present day Catalan political parties are direct ideological descendants of CDC and UDC, authors of the document. The following is the complete text, translated from the original Catalan version. 1.-COLLECTIVE THINKING Development of the following lines of awareness: a) Configuration of the Catalan personality: Explanation and empowerment of the basic, defining and positive axes of our collective personality. Choice and dissemination of the concepts that allow the maximum strengthening of our people (be more educated, more modern, more civic, more supportive, more European, love work, taste for a job well done, verify the roots, validity of Christian values...) in accordance with the challenges posed by the present world. Remembrance of grievances: Catalonia is a discriminated nation that can not freely develop its cultural and economic potential. b) Diffusion of the Catalan history and the Catalan national reality: Diffusion of the crucial events of our history and our historical figures, as well as the contribution of the Catalan people to European culture and science. Promotion of popular festivals, traditions, customs and their mythical background. c) New concept of nation within the European framework: Catalonia (Països Catalans), as an emerging European nation. Reaffirmation of the European sentiment. A Europe without borders must be a Europe that recognize its nations. d) Discovery of our future potential: Catalonia (Països Catalans), as the center of gravity of the south of the EEC. Preferential economiccultural performance on the north-western Mediterranean arch and the Occitan-Catalan area. Maximum attention to the axis formed by the Barcelona-Montpellier-Toulouse triangle. We must also take into account the relationship between Catalonia and Aragon. And mutual intercomprehension area of Alicante to the Alps. e) The demographic factor: Only the populations who are young advance. It is necessary to make our people aware of the need to have more children to guarantee our collective personality. f) Remembrance of grievances: Catalonia is a discriminated nation that can not freely develop its cultural and economic potential. Discovery, verification, weighting and dissemination of discriminatory facts, shortcomings, etc., in a clear, forceful and systematic way. Remarking the negative impact that this has for the whole Catalan people and for each of its citizens. g) Collective awareness raising: Catalonia is a culture that walks in search of its sovereignty within the European framework. Identitarian awareness to strengthen the social soul. Underpinning our own center of gravity within Europe. Reform of the Autonomy treaty within Spain. h) Social aspect: Greater freedom for Catalonia means greater social welfare for all its citizens. Nationalist sentiment New concept of nation within the European framework: Catalonia (Països Catalans), as emerging European nation.

2 and national liberation must be linked to the social promotion of people and their own individual and collective sense of fulfillment. i) Configuration of the individual personality of the citizens of Catalonia: We want men and women of strong convictions and prepared to lead a powerful Catalonia. j) Revitalize the concept of Catalonia as a living, cohesive civil society, with a sense of belonging, generating material and spiritual wealth. k) Fully exercise sovereignty in all those spaces where we have competencies. 1.-It is necessary to bring together different groups of people, institutions and associations that are determined to develop the lines of awareness mentioned above and to disseminate their content. 2.-We must influence effectively all mass media channels through the people with greater positive social influence. At the same time, entities with a cultural extension and population instructing capabilities, that embrace this nationalizing content, should be promoted and strengthened. 3.-The awareness-raising campaigns to be organized must have as a cornerstone the promotion of popular festivities, traditions, customs and national mythology. The empowerment of the family model that guarantees biological substitution. Reform of the Spanish Autonomy treaty with its corresponding explanation of reasons. Manage to turn Catalonia into a European district. And strengthen Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, as a meeting place in the Occitan-Catalan space, etcetera. 4.-Publishing of books, awareness-raising articles and support material for the activities of each area (brochures, videos, cassettes, maps, games, etc.). Towards this goal, we Nationalist sentiment and national liberation must be linked to the social promotion of people and their collective sense of fulfillment. will create a record of foundations, entities and / or existing publishers with whom we can choos (or if it is in our advantage, create and publish) the necessary awarenessraising material. 5.-Finally, we would have to create in Barcelona a research cabinet of public opinion studies, as well as a Museum of the History of Catalonia. 2.-TEACHING. Crear en Barcelona un gabinete de investigación sociológica y de estudios de opinión pública, además del Museo de la Historia de Cataluña. To promote the Catalan nationalistic feeling among teachers, parents and students. To guarantee the perfect knowledge of the geography, history and other socio-cultural facts of Catalonia, as well as to promote the use of the Catalan language by professors, teachers and students. Educate children and young people according to criteria of generosity, effort, discipline, creativity, civility, solidarity (having therefore present the values of our people and the universal values of humanity). Amd do all this with an ideological and practical defense of the mixed school model (public-private school). 1.-Require the correct knowledge of the language, history and geography of Catalonia and the Catalan Countries to all teachers, teachers and students. Prepare the corresponding didactic tools and oblige the inspectors to comply with them. 2.- Development of a permanent training program for teachers recycling plan that takes into account the national interests. Incentivize the assistance to the recycling courses. 3.-Edit, publish and make use of textbooks on the history, geography, art, literature, economics, etc., of Catalonia and the Països Catalans (Catalan Countries). Establish agreements with publishers for its preparation and diffusion, with subsidies when necessary. 4.-Catalanization of teaching bodies. Establish process of nalysis and approval of the content by trusted and responsible people. 5.-Promote the incorporation of positive educational values of the Catalan national reality and knowledge in the universities that train future junior high school teachers. 6.- Reorganize the body of education inspectors in a manner and way that we can monitor the proper compliance with the regulations on the Catalanization of education. Closely monitor the election of this staff. 7.- Develop the campaign El país a l escola (the Country to school) with the maximum possible affectation, with a constant renewal of activities (popular song, sardanas, ballets, theater, poetry, works, videos, defense of the environment, cultural trips, excursions, exchange seminars for students, exchange seminars for teachers, school on television, promotion of children s publications, company visits, scientific and technological activities...) 8.-Influence parent associations, infiltrating people and leaders who have nationalist criteria. 9.-Reinforcement of the role of the directive bodies of the centers on authority and order, backed with new regulations and encouragment, giving social prestige to the directive functions. 10.-Look after the correct composition of the state workers examination courts. 11.-Campaign for the social dignification of professional, technical and non-regulated teachers. 12.-Rationalization of the student mass of FP (Proffesional Formation grades) specialists Goals: To promote the Catalan nationalistic feeling among teachers, parents and students.

3 according to the current and future needs of the labor market. 13.-Increase the endowments of the school&work programs. 14.-Demand a renewd articulation of the departments of Ensenyament (Teaching), Treball (Work) and Indústria i Energia (Industry and Energy) for the correct coordination of Vocational and Occupational Training. 15.-Prepare a plan of re-equipment for the FP (Proffesional Formation grades). 16.-Ensure compliance of the minimum margins established in relation to teaching in Catalan language. 17.-Campaign to promote civic values in schools Campaign to denounce the financial insufficiencies regarding the economic agreements of the private centers. 19.-Encourage extra-school activities (hiking, music, sports...) 20.-Strengthen the schools of applied arts and music conservatories Conducting school and professional orientation campaigns. 22.-Give greater budgetary attention to special education. Create a coordination commission between the departments of Ensenyament (Teaching), Sanitat (Public Health) and Benestar Social (Welfare). 23.-Public defense of this educational reform model. Carry out a public campaign to explain it. 3.-UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH Strengthen Catalan universities, providing Empowerment of the Catalan Association of University Professionals, as well as associations of nationalist students. Promote people of nationalist ideology in the governing bodies of the three main Catalan universities. them with human resources and infrastructure, so that they can be counted among the best in Europe. Promote research especially in the fields of industrial applications and cutting-edge technology. Stimulate the Catalan national feeling of students and teachers and promote the use of Catalan language in all areas of academic and research activity. Promote and facilitate the creation of private universities that are born of Catalan civil society. Promote decentralization and expansion of university centres, creating new universities or degrees linked to the Catalan territory. a) Encourage and promote the creation of new universities, institutes, centers and university studies: 1.- Consolidation and conversion in universities of the university centers of Lérida, Tarragona-Reus and Gerona. 2.- Promotion and help to the creation of private universities especially social initiative rooted in the country. 3.- Creation of new universities. 4.- Creation of new centers. Empowerment of existing centers related to the development of leading specialties in fields of industry, management and direction, as well as new centers connected to the Catalan regional reality. 5.- Creation of distance-learning (or open) university degrees and help in the development of textbooks and multimedia teaching materials in Catalan with a Catalan perspective. b) Promote the Catalan presence in all European programs, exchange programs and international presence in Catalonia, as well as scientific communication between Catalonia and the world: 1.- Promotion of the Comett, Erasmus and Lingua programs. 2.- More teacher and student exchange protocols. 3.- Aid for the increase of Master degrees studied abroad. 4.- Increase the readership of Catalan Language in foreign universities. 5.- Creation of a consortium (of the COPCA type) that promotes the Catalan language, culture and science abroad through the establishment of broadcasting offices. 6.- Strengthening the professional associations of students that allow international exchanges (AIESEC, IAESTE, IFMSA). 7.- Help for scientific publications in Catalan (journals, theses, etc.), giving priority to exchanges or translations of prestigious foreign scientific journals. c) Give more impetus to universitysociety foundations as well as centers for technological knowledge. d) Empowerment of the Catalan Association of University Professionals, as well as associations of nationalist students. e) Promote people of nationalist ideology in the governing bodies of the three main Catalan universities. f) Residency policy for students, especially in medium-sized university cities. g) Revaluation of the role of social councils. h) Prepare a Catalan National I+D Plan, prioritized and selective, interconnected to the economic network, that reviews and empowers the activities of CIRIT. Stimulate the Catalan national feeling of students and teachers.

4 i) Redefinition and strengthening of the role of the IEC. j) Strengthen existing research centers. k) Ensure the correct composition of the state workers examination courts. l) Promote self-taught qualifications, adapting them to social needs. ll) Design and carry out a good Catalan Summer University with high level courses for both nationals and foreigners that also promote the knowledge of the Catalan country. m) Campaign in favor of tax cuts for investments in the university and / or I+D field. n) Promote the constitution of high-level higher education institutes, in various fields (economic, political...) 4.-MASS MEDIA Make sure that the public mass media channels dependent on the Generalitat (Catalan Government) continue to be effective transmitters of the Catalan nationalist model. To this end, the concepts related to Catalan national identity will be used and clearly disseminated: a) Debugging the Catalan language. It is necessary to use a standard Catalan without mistakes, taking into account the different phonetics. b) Enable a Catalan global programming among all television channels, with a higher percentage among radio stations. c) A better and wider diffusion of the Catalan cultural products with audiovisual productions about facts, characters, episodes of our history and a greater Ensure the correct composition of the state workers examination courts. Introduce Catalan nationalists of high professional profile and technical qualification among the key postions of mass media channels. attention to present cultural reality and Catalan scientific society. d) Expand the action framework of the audiovisual media to the scope of the Països Catalans (Catalan Countries) with greater attention to the smaller regions. Make available the signal of 11/3 Channel 33 and TVV from any point of the Catalan Countries carrying out a bold policy for attracting popular audience. e) Diffusion of the sensitization content developed for the field of thought (creation of a State of nationalistic opinion). f) International projection of the Catalan communication space through coproduction with European televisions, European programs, etc., that allow the dissemination of our national language and identity. g) Expand the reach of Catalan national radio stations to the medium wave. h) Encourage the written press in Catalan. i) Permanently influence the initial training of journalists and communication technicians to guarantee a formation with a Catalan nationalistic awareness. Create the communication codes. j) Induce advertising and publicity companies to create a positive and welldone propagandistic message that transmits the Catalan cultural and social model. k) Normalize the production and exhibition of Catalan cinema, as well as the dubbing of films and videos to Catalan. 1.- Introduce Catalan nationalist people of high professional profile and great technical qualification among the key postions of mass media channels. 2.- Turn the Avui newspaper into a Catalania nation-wide daily newspaper, endowing it with the necessary technical means and human resources such as editors, correspondents and collaborators that turn it into a competitive mass media channel. Act in a similar way with a weekly informative paper and weekly magazine. 3.- Favor strategies among the magazines and publications in Catalan with the goal of covering all the national agenda. With a special interest to facilitate the transition into Catalan Language, the regional newspapers of Lérida and Tarragona, as well as their other mass media channels. 4.- Creation of a Catalan news agency, with a national spirit and great solvency. 5.- Carry out a campaign to promote the habit of reading among citizens of Catalonia and the Països Catalans (Catalan Countries). Ask for the collaboration of the editors. 6.- Creation of video collections with the most successful films translated into Catalan. Creation of a TV3 video production company and dissemination of programs with this format. 7.- Influence the channels of distribution in order to improve the diffusion of Catalan cultural products. 8.- Reach individual agreements with the main films distributors, so that every film has the corresponding Catalan version and ensure that at least 10 major and premiere films are screened in Catalan, as well as 20 videos. 9.- Ensure TV3 extends the acquisition of the emission rights of films dubbed into Catalan for a public diffusion of proximity (video, screen) Sign agreements with other television channels to create series or reports on important personalities or events from [...] public mass media channels dependent on the Catalan Government continue to be effective transmitters of the Catalan nationalist model.

5 Catalonia Get the broadcasters of Catalonia to broadcast on medium and short wave Favor the granting of public financed aid to stations with Catalan programming. 5.-CULTURAL AND LEISURE ENTITIES. Catalanization of sports and leisure activities. Promote knowledge of the Catalan national reality within the different sectors where each entity operates. Encourage love of nature, civility and the protection and conservation of the environment. Emphasize the fundamental role of cultural entities and the associative movement in general, giving them economic, technical and institutional support for their development. Influence especially the most denationalized areas of our territory. It is also necessary to ensure the training of sociocultural animators and new professions in the fields of leisure, social education, culture and associative life. 1) Campaign in favor of the Catalan Olympic Committee. 2) Campaign in favor of the 1992 Olympic Games respecting the Catalan national language and identity. 3) Adaptation of international games to our language and culture (such as Trivial Pursuit) and preservation of traditional Catalan games. 4) Promotion of cultural trips, scheduled excursions, youth tourism with country content and interior tourism in general. 5) Promotion of leisure time education (leisure and scouting) in social initiative Increase subsidies, both in activities and equipment, to associations, very specifically those related to our traditional culture. entities. Catalanization of sports and leisure activities. 6) Promotion and consolidation of Catalan cultural entities and groups in all areas, with special attention to suburban areas, facilitating the conditions for development: fiscal, labor, sponsorship, subsidies, etc. 7) Promote the training of educators in leisure and sociocultural animators of these initiatives from within the same entities. 8) Promote volunteering and amateur groups. 9) Encourage and aid youth and cultural associations with a vocation for the Catalan country. 10) Promotion and aid for the edition and publishing of informative books on hiking and cultural routes, songs, divulgation of our history, traditions, popular festivals, customs, games, etc. 11) Potentiation of the pal de paller (cornerstone) entities that can act as a motor and drag others towards a collective action of broad spectrum. 12) Programming and realization of Expoculture in different places of the territory, to put in contact the associations with the creators. 13) Campaign to make society aware of the benefits of associative action. 14) Preparation, publication and diffusion of sports regulations as well as the Catalan vocabularies of each sport. 15) Campaign for the Catalanization of sports federations, with the support of UFEC. 16) Creation of advisory and linguistic normalization groups within the sports federations. 17) Strengthen the Consells Comarcals de l Esport (Regional Commitees for Sports). Carry out Jocs Esportius Escolars (School Sports Games) nationally, as an element of integration at the local, district and national levels. 18) Increase subsidies, both in activities and equipment, to associations, very specifically those related to our traditional culture. 19) Campaign in favor of tax cuts and other aiding exemptions for national associations. 6.-BUSINESS WORLD Guarantee the use of Catalan Language in all signage, indicators, bulletin boards, printed matter, advertising, commercial documentation... Promote some Catalan employer, economic and trade union organizations. Fundamental activities 1) Creation of linguistic advisory units within the main business and union organizations. Coordination of an organization that brings together all these entities in order to facilitate the Catalanization, with special emphasis on acting at the high and intermediate level. 2) Influence Vocational Training schools and managers to spread the Catalan spirit among students: the future business executives. 3) Reconversion of the INEM. 4) Favor trade union strategies that incorporate the linguistic and national dimension of Catalonia into their policy. 5) Encourage the Catalanization of service companies. For example, provide insurance models in Catalan and burocratic forms. 6) Require linguistic and national Campaign in favor of tax cuts and other aiding exemptions for national associations.

6 standardization of Spanish State enterprises and public companies in the tertiary sector (Iberia, Telefónica, Renfe, etc.). 7) Achieve the Catalanization of the guilds, Promotion of National Labor, PIMEC, Circle of Economy, Federació de Caixes d Estalvis, professional associations, chambers of commerce, etcetera. 8) Increase the influence of the Generalitat in the Fira de Barcelona to make it become a true international organization for Catalonia. 9) Achieve linguistic and national standardization of Regional savings banks and other financial entities. 10) Design a strategy in order to qualify for the management positions of institutions in the business field. 11) Introduce in the training and recycling of managers (ESADE, IESE, EMI, ICESE, etc.) the Catalanization of the programs of these centers. 12) Preference when awarding public contests to those companies that have a standardization process, both within the company and in the commercialization of the product (labeling, signaling, technical characteristics, keyboard, etc.) in Catalan. 13) Catalanize the tourism and leisure industries (amusement parks, hotels, restaurants...) 14) Be rigorous awarding awards and honors to companies, company directors and workers. 15) Policy to help the artisans, giving back value to traditional crafts. 16) Help the production of business software in Catalan. 7.-INTERNATIONAL PROJECTION Favor trade union strategies that incorporate the linguistic and national dimension of Catalonia into their policy. Preference when awarding public contests to those companies that have a standardization of the product in Catalan. Make known the existence of Catalonia and the Països Catalans (Catalan Countries Region) throughout the world, especially in Europe. Cohesion of the Catalan space within the north-western framework of the Mediterranean and Southern Europe. To strengthen relations between the Catalan Countries and their economic environment (Aragón, Occitania and northern Italy) in all fields. Ensure that the Catalan language is official in the Cortes Generales (Spanish Congress and Senate) and in the CEE, and that Catalonia becomes a European constituency in the elections to the European Parliament. Promote knowledge of languages by facilitating study through all means, because pluralism helps us to preserve Catalan. Likewise, a permanent presence abroad of Catalan cultural productions is necessary and Catalonia should be strengthened as a meeting place for and the realization of all kinds of high-level cultural, economic, commercial, etc. expressions. 1.- Create courses for foreigners who want to know the Catalan language and culture in their place of origin, accrediting them with the Certificat Internacional de Català. 2.- To promote cultural, scientific, tourist, university, school, sports, commercial relations, etc., between the Catalan Countries and their entire area of influence, by modifying interdisciplinary seminars or seminars (for example, some Cultural Days of Alghero) or the Estudi General Lul.lià) that serve as interconnection. Encourage relations with Occitania (Jornades Universitàries à la Vall d Aran). 3.- To favor the activities of the entities that develop programs of knowledge of the Catalan culture abroad (IPECC, CAOC, casals catalans, etc.). 4.- Promote the knowledge of a Catalan image abroad, composed of elements such as folklore, crafts, plastic arts, etcetera. 5.- Start-up of awareness campaigns abroad for the recognition of the official status of the Catalan language in Europe. Requirement of Catalan in the Lingua program. 6.- Campaign to promote a quality tourism offer that values the Catalan cultural life, its traditions, its identity and that is respectful of the cultural heritage and the environment. 7.- Increase in aid to Catalan-speaking entities (NACS, Catalan Office of Frankfurt, etc.). 8.- Campaign in favor of Catalonia being a European electoral district. 9.- Create a Club for International Debates in Barcelona Strengthen the exchanges and agreements of Catalonia with other regional engines in Europe Strengthen the presence of Catalan and Catalonia in international events (Expolangues, trade fairs, tourism fairs, etc.). 8.-INFRASTRUCTURES Achieve that Catalonia and the remaining Catalan countries have an important weight in the economic field. To provide Catalonia and the rest of the Catalan countries with a good network of terrestrial, maritime and air communications. Interconnecting both sides of the Pyrenees with new railway lines, roads and highways. Make Catalonia and the rest of the Catalan countries a core of high level of development in all those aspects where it is worth living. Promote a policy of territorial and urban adaptation that respects the cultural and environmental Be rigorous awarding honours to companies, company directors and workers.

7 heritage. Enhance the role of Barcelona as an economic, commercial and tourist-cultural capital of the north-western Mediterranean and of the European Great South. Favor the technological autonomy of Catalonia. 1.-Strengthen the existing Catalan banks and savings banks and their European penetration. 2.-Strengthen the Barcelona Stock Exchange 3.- Maximize the implantation in Catalonia of companies of high technological level, as well as research centers. 4.- Develop road communications; strengthening of the Mediterranean axis. 5.- Campaign to raise awareness among Catalan citizens regarding the decline in quality of life and development that represents the lack of certain economic structures. 6.- Transfer to the Generalitat all the competences regarding railways in Catalan territory. 7.- Campaign to pass to the European width all the railways of the Catalan Countries. Creation of new lines, such as: Tortosa- Lleida, Pobla de Segur-Sant Gironç, Manresa-La Seu d Urgell-Andorra. 8.- Campaign in favor of boosting rail transport, especially the Barcelona suburban railway and the metro network of the city. 9.- Campaign to guarantee that the TGV of Barcelona to the border and Paris will be carried out as soon as possible, and that it will extend to Valencia and Alicante Campaign to convert the Barcelona airport into the link nucleus of the great European south. Expand international and intercontinental flights. After years claiming that Spain steals money from Catalonia, Jordi Pujol and his sons have confessed to hiding over million euros in switzerland for over three decades Campaign in favor of the expansion of the Port of Barcelona, and equip it with the necessary infrastructure to make it one of the best in Europe Channel a design project of iconographic signs (road signs, places, etc.) that allows to have a differentiated sense and identifier Develop those sectors of the economy in which Catalonia can have an important role at European level, such as, for example, computer software, design, logistics, business organization, and so on Strengthen the technological parks Promote international economic journals made in Catalonia. 9. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION That the Administration identifies itself (in the concepts: work, creativity, participation, style, forms, actions) with the national values: -Primacy of civil society and application of the principle of subsidiarity. -Reinforcement among the citizenship of the concepts about rights and duties. -Service attitude above bureaucratic mechanisms. -Openness to Europe (knowledge and study of European realities and connection with European institutions). -Austerity (balance, not ostentation). -Effectiveness. pragmatism, but with feina ben feta (a work well done) and attention to individual. -Liberalism. Reinforce the political and social role of Catalan legislation on different issues. Prestige the Catalan Administration as a synonym of efficiency and good management. Influence the administration of justice and public order with nationalistic criteria. Respect for the natural and cultural heritage. Fundamental activities. 1) Overcome the pre-eminence that certain structures and staff structures are acquiring in the departments of the Generalitat. 2) Overcome the dichotomy that attempts to be established between officials and politicians with pre-eminence of political decisions and efficiency and simplification in administrative actions. 3) Reinforcement of the structures of the consellers cabinets as mechanisms for political action. 4) In-depth review of the access and internal promotion mechanisms of the civil service (Public Function Law and internal operating laws), seeking a greater incentive in the work and flexibility in the operation. 5) Substantial change of orientation of the Escala d Administració Pública towards the basic and permanent training of the different levels of the civil service and of the public positions. END OF DOCUMENT. Former Catalonia Presidents Artur Mas and Carles Puigdemont are direct political party descendants of the authors of this document.

8 Tabarnia Today is the first official newspaper of Tabarnia, a popular platform of Tarragona and Barcelona Unionist regions that refutes Catalan Separatist logic with their same arguments (and tripled wit). It is this newspaper s belief that as a country Spain has not made the necessary efforts to explain the Unionists point of view to the world. Since it is in the international political arena where Separatists are playing what we consider to be a farce, it is our intention to expose them. In the next days/weeks we intend to publish enough material to form a point of view that has been silenced in Catalonia. We intend to give proof of how Catalan Nationalism is not very different from other nationalisms: A hate-based populist movement that pictures an outside enemy (Spain) as the root of all their evils. A selfish economic agenda disguised as the sectarian conflict of a Historic Nation with medieval rights (their words). A propaganda-of-fear emotional campaign that does not hesitate to awake the ghosts of our still recent civil war to break the Catalan society apart. Please listen to us and decide if it is important enough to spread the point of view of those who want to feel Catalan, Spanish, and most importantly, European.