The Spanish press busy themselves with news of the Catalan Nation’s travelling moustache and his latest embassy, but his visit doesn’t show up in the English-language press, the organisers (Catalan Institute of America) are silent, and the only vaguely relevant function listed yesterday on NYU’s agenda is at 18:00 and features Miguel Sanz and the Navarre government. The Navarre event, coming at the beginning of the spring term and on inauguration day, constitutes a clear waste of public money, but it looks like Carod is claiming expenses for (self-)promotional activities that didn’t actually take place. So where were he and Ferran Villalonga yesterday evening?

Tags: carod, corruption, nationalism
Categories: Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois, Splog

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1. A Nun
   January 21st 2009 13:49

   Surely you’re not suggesting that nationalism’s foreign adventures are nothing but a PR fraud for purely domestic consumption and with the sole genuine intention of travelling extensively at the taxpayer’s expense?!

2. Trevor
   January 22nd 2009 09:04

   I’m informed that the event wasn’t advertised, but it did actually take place.

3. Ian Llorens
   January 24th 2009 19:20

   This is the invitation I got, but I did not attend, I was in Budapest. Anyway, they would have not allowed me in with so many eggs.

4. Trevor
   January 25th 2009 23:42

   I think even our moustachioed friend knows that you need to break some eggs to make a carod cake.

5. Juan Kerr
   January 29th 2009 18:49

   The andaluces do it, too. Must be a third world thing.

6. Disident
   February 4th 2009 10:12

   NYU only hosted it because the Catalan government pays them through the institute Ramón Llull. There is a like arrangement for the LSE in London and other universities. Only about 30 people went to it.