Firstly, thank you to International Alert for inviting me to join this forum. The blog entries so far promise to provide for plenty of interesting debate tomorrow. I hope to be able to contribute to this debate with some comments on Spain's experience.
For those of you interested in further learning about the situation in Spain, let me invite you to visit the section my think-tank CIDOB has established on its website on issues that have recently caught the attention of a wide international audience such as the 'Indignados movement', the secessionist movement in Catalunya etc. As we will surely discuss tomorrow issues such as a rising public skepticism with politics and growing calls for regional secessionism are very much related to the crisis Europe is currently facing.
http://www.cidob.org/en/publicaciones/spain_in_focus [3]