What can Europe learn from Catalonia?

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What can Europe learn from Catalonia?

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Published Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 17:07
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When PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen visited Barcelona, Catalonia, recently it became clear that Europe could learn a thing or two from this region in Spain. With 7,5 million citizens Catalonia makes up only a small share of Europe’s population, but still the region has two official languages and a high percentage of immigrants. This way Catalonia faces some of the same challenges as Europe.

The video below is from a conference on ‘New Social Europe’ on the 29th of January 2008: