By the way, CiU replaced their excellent sitting MEP Ignasi Guardans with an orthodox economist who is more of a Catalan nationalist, with emphasis on the nationalism. I think it is a loss. I was toying with the idea of voting for CiU to reelect Guardans, now I'll probably vote PSOE (and Guardans if going to join ZP's Ministry of Culture).

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith