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VIA 04 04/2007 REVISTA DEL CENTRE D’ESTUDIS JORDI PUJOL
possible scenarios faced by Scotland as a result
of the victory of the Scottish National Party
(SNP) in the elections held last May, but also
assesses the ten years of the devolution process
promoted by Tony Blair since 1997. According
to Serrano, a certain success in implementing
institutional changes and in the overall
development of this process has,
paradoxically and beyond any diagnosis that
might be made of the recent electoral results,
meant that Labour’s vision for the future of
Scotland is the one that enjoys most support
among the population today.
Lluís Nicolau d’Olwer:
a Catalan Unknown
Marta Pessarrodona
An undoubtedly multifaceted figure who
might have been remembered for his huge
contribution to various disciplines and for
whom it can be claimed –as the author does in
the text– that he was historian, Hellenist,
journalist, economist, prose writer,
amanuensis and politician. However, the
truth of the matter is that the life of Lluís
Nicolau d’Olwer, today, is both forgotten and
all-too unfamiliar in certain latitudes. In this
article, Marta Pessarrodona describes the
figure of an erudite man who was the leader
of Acció Catalana Republicana, Minister of the
Economy with Azaña and Governor of the
Bank of Spain during the dramatic period of
the Civil War.
For a Humanist Policy
Joan Lluís Pérez-Francesch
In this article, the author proposes what
might be considered a bona fide paradigmatic
change in the world of politics. A
transformation towards the recovery and
updating of the values of humanism and
personalism, with particular emphasis on
public action and political struggle in the
sense of serving people and the community,
rather than the attainment of power per se.
This change in approach means, for example,
that politics must reflect and define a countrydriven
project, a collective project rather than
tactics or marketing in its strictest sense,
more long-term than short-term. According to
Pérez-Francesch this change in the way
politics is conceived also involves a revival of a
more deeply ethical, more transcendent
dimension, from particular to general
interest, and with a certain spiritual
anchoring of politics.
Concerning Historical Memory
Josep Maria Solé i Sabaté
The different social, academic and political
projects and initiatives concerning historical
memory that have been initiated over the last
few years have meant that this issue, today,
has become one of undeniable importance,
subject to numerous public debates. In this
text the author reflects on the true meaning
of and the opportunities deriving from the
encouragement of so-called memory policies.
Solé i Sabaté also, and very clearly, alerts us to
the hidden dangers in a conception of
memory biased in one direction, in other
words, where the interpretation of that
memory does not take into account its
complexity and plurality.
The Centre
Jordi Pujol
We reproduced the editorial published by the
President of the Centre d’Estudis Jordi Pujol in
the CEJP online newsletter on 15 May 2007.
The main thesis of this text refers to the fact
that, in Spain, as in France, the difficulty in
building and consolidating a political force of
the centre is due, among other things, to the
inherent limitations of the electoral system.
This has led to a de facto situation where the
most important nationalist parties in the
state, namely CiU and the PNB, particularly
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