Tourism Minister accuses independence movement of forcing businesses out of Catalonia
Friday, October 6, 2017 @ 10:12 AM
Spain's Minister for Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda, Álvaro Nadal, declared on Thursday that the Catalonian independence movement was "forcing" big businesses to move their company headquarters out of Catalonia because of the "huge uncertainty" in the region, a situation he described as "disastrous" for the country's economic stability.
After speaking at a conference in Valladolid on Spain's digital future, the minister was openly critical of those he believes want to "break up Spain for no logical reason", a move that he believes "threatens to undermine the effort and work put in by two generations".
Nadal (pictured) recalled how Spain arrived to the first two industrial revolutions, meaning that past generations had had to make a "huge effort" to turn Spain into the force it is today, and said that this progress was now "threatened" by "incomprehensible and inconceivable rupturist proposals, just like in bygone centuries".
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