The Diplomat. 25/01/2016
The Number Three in the Catalan Government, Raül Romeva, has gone one step further in his terminological war with the Central Government on introducing himself on his personal Twitter account as “Minister of Foreign Affairs, Institutional Relations & Transparency” of the “Catalan Government”.
Romeva has become the first politician to take up the position of “Minister of Foreign Affairs” in an autonomous government. In addition, he has added the responsibilities of Institutional Relations and Transparency. Mariano Rajoy’s government reacted last Friday with the announcement that it would refer said autonomous ministry to the Constitutional Court for encroaching on the competencies of Madrid in respect of foreign policy.
Earlier Catalan governments had until now a Minister of International Relations. In Twitter, however, the new Catalan minister has advanced one step higher by saying, in English, that he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In this way, he has equated himself with José Manuel García-Margallo, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs.
