INFLUENCE OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON THE SEPARATIST ASPIRATIONS OF CATALONIA FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SPANISH INTERNAL LAW

Abstract

The Catalan Crisis of 2017-2018 has shown significant misunderstandings in the internal legal system of Spain. Many issues of the legal system were differently understood by the central government and by the autonomous authorities in Barcelona. It concerned such as important issues like the institution of referendum, which was interpreted differently by politicians from Madrid and the Constitutional Court and otherwise by those from Barcelona. The genesis of the constitutional crisis itself is rooted in the global economic crisis that began in the second half of the last decade, as it was then that the Catalan nationalist movement radicalized.