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This year at 581,395 dollars, very far from the 4.7 million contributed last 2011. Furthermore, for the moment, the United Nations has not yet received the promised contribution, which was destined for programs related to the right to water and food The Government of Rodríguez Zapatero made generous contributions to the High Commissioner for Human Rights even when the economic crisis was already significantly affecting Spain. Thus, in 2009, it contributed 13.9 million dollars, becoming the largest donor in the world that year , only behind the United States ( 19.7 million ). In 2010, there was already a reduction by more than half, leaving it at 6.8 million; and in 2011, it lowered it even further to 4.7 million . In total, since 2009, the reduction in the Spanish contribution to the Human Rights Office has been 95 percent , despite which, as a whole, since 2007, Spain, with a total of 42.6 million dollars, appears as the sixth global contributor to the office. Other countries with more resources than Spain make significantly smaller contributions, such as Japan , with an annual average of $587,000 , or Saudi Arabia, with an average of .
The campaign began on October 3, when MEP Ramón Tremosa (from CiU) sent a letter demanding from the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz , the resignation of the vice president of the Chamber, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, for having requested the intervention of the Civil Guard in Catalonia if referendums are called that go against the Constitution. With Schulz's rejection of that proposal , and the subsequent letter from the Special Database 'popular' explaining why he had spoken of the intervention of the Benemérita, and in which he also warned that the separatist offensive in Catalonia "has nothing peaceful about it", It seemed that the conflict was over, but it had only just begun . As leaders of the Spanish delegation well located in Brussels explain to El Confidencial Digital , “for two weeks now, the Catalan independence MEPs have not stopped sending emails and handing out pages in Parliament with poems, reports and even videos in favor of independence in Catalonia". “The Spanish armies have bombed Catalan cities” The promoter of this campaign, Ramón Tremosa, returned to the fray writing a letter to the European Commissioner for Justice, Viviane Reding, and open to all MEPs, in which he explained in four points the reasons why Catalonia should be independent. They are the following: -- The fiscal deficit of Catalonia .
Tremosa talks about a report on the fiscal deficit of the region, prepared in 2005, which establishes the “fiscal imbalances” between Spanish regions that year, valued at negative 14,808 million euros for Catalonia. Furthermore, the CiU representative recommends reading articles by “the best Catalan economists” , who work in American universities, on the economic independence of Catalonia. All of these writings have been published by the Catalan think-tank CatDem . On the website of that platform , and which Tremosa himself promotes in the letter, articles by “experts” such as Jordi Gali, Jordi Barbeta, Enric Juliana, Jesús Conte, Carles Boix or Joan Majó appear. Furthermore, he gives the example of Kosovo's self-determination as a model for Catalonia . -- Comparison with Scotland . The MEP assures that, while “the Spanish Parliament vetoed a possible referendum in Catalonia, the British government agreed to the conditions for the Scottish referendum in 2014.” -- Spanish army attacks : Tremosa accuses the Spanish armies of “acting violently,” bombing “the Catalan cities of Barcelona and others for 300 years .” In addition, she claims that Franco murdered the Catalan president Lluis Companys, one of the founders of the UDC, Manuel Carrasco, and “dozens of Catalan and Basque Catholic priests.