Catalonia This is my first opinion in a new slim volume of vignettes they are celebrating in the streets of Barcelona they are and the independent nation now, they were independent, but now they are a republic. Tomorrow the people will be sober, where is the money coming from, they have to print their version of the Euro, the one they had is no longer a legal tender. Businesses and banks are moving to Spain, Catalonia is a member of no one. If the Catalans are willing to suffer years of need, just to be a republic, that is ok, but this freedom movement full of propaganda of suffering Catalans will hurt them more than Spain that merely followed the rule. It was not about independence but about money Catalonia is prosperous an as the saying will not pay for the poorer region it is as simple as that.