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Xavier Vidal-Folch

CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

Spain’s guaranteed minimum income scheme will come with €5.5bn price tag

Xavier Vidal-Folch/Manuel V. Gómez|Barcelona / Madrid | 19-04-2020 - 09:28 UTC

The coalition government is finalizing its plans for the system, which will be introduced in May and will benefit households in poverty

OPINION

Brexit and the Catalan ‘process’

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 07-11-2017 - 09:03 UTC

Neither one is inevitable, as illustrated by the cases of Italy’s Padania and the Basque Country

Catalan Independence

An X-ray of Puigdemont’s speech in Brussels

Xavier Vidal-Folch/Bernardo Marín|Barcelona / Madrid | 01-11-2017 - 13:23 UTC

EL PAÍS analyzes the contradictions in the former premier’s appearance on Tuesday

Crisis in Catalonia

Who are the traitors in Catalonia?

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 12-10-2017 - 14:33 UTC

Pro-independence economist Xavier Sala i Martín says banks’ decision to leave region is political intimidation

Catalan bid for independence

EL PAÍS analyzes 10 claims commonly made by separatists to support their cause

Xavier Vidal-Folch/José Ignacio Torreblanca|Barcelona / Madrid | 26-09-2017 - 10:16 UTC
ANALYSIS

It’s not independence, it’s a violation of the law

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 06-09-2017 - 18:14 UTC

The bill regulating the Catalan independence referendum is illegal from beginning to end

ANALISYS

Comparing Catalan independence to Kosovo makes no sense

Xavier Vidal-Folch|Barcelona | 17-08-2017 - 10:21 UTC

Draft secession law in Spanish region makes unfounded comparison with former Yugoslav province

BREXIT

Like the British, Europe must keep calm and carry on

Xavier Vidal-Folch|Madrid | 24-06-2016 - 08:59 UTC

The UK’s decision was not the most rational, logic, or opportune, but perhaps the most likely

OPINION

Why Cañete won’t be able to hide in Brussels

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 23-05-2014 - 13:57 UTC

Gender equality in wages and other matters has always been in the European community’s DNA

OPINION

Who averted the collapse?

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 03-02-2014 - 12:50 UTC

It was Mario, and not Mariano, who saved Spain from a bailout

OPINION

Colonized by colonies

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 03-12-2013 - 13:26 UTC

Pemex is the winner in the Repsol deal as Latin American firms continue to bring new and welcome investment to Spain

opinion

Aznar vs Madrid

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 28-10-2013 - 14:38 UTC

It all began with the megalomaniac T-4 airport terminal at Barajas in Madrid, planned in 1996 as soon as the new prime minister got his hands on the purse strings of power

OPINION

The cost-free bailout

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 06-08-2013 - 19:15 UTC

The government’s legitimacy in propping up banks depended on its financial neutrality

opinion

Banking disunion

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 26-06-2013 - 12:49 UTC

Union would prevent collapses caused by failings of major financial insitutions

OPINION

To pay, or not to pay

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 27-05-2013 - 12:31 UTC

Discussion on income tax is a welcome variation on the monotonous theme of public spending

OPINION

Stop, or avoid evictions?

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 11-04-2013 - 12:32 UTC

Never in history was there a real estate bubble without the complicity of a banking system to finance it

OPINION

Spanish eyes

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 27-01-2013 - 13:05 UTC

Madrid’s perception of a lack of influence in Europe is right; and there are good reasons for this

OPINION

Independence?

Xavier Vidal-Folch | 26-09-2012 - 14:10 UTC

The drainage of powers from the nation-state has been so complete as to denature it entirely

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