An arduous battle of flags in Spain

The Spanish Supreme Court decided on Tuesday, July 31st, that the Academy that trains the police in the Basque country should sport the Spanish national flag. Manuel Martin Ferran, the daily's chronicler, makes no secret of how tired he is of this sort of dispute. "If being Spanish carries a certain amount of charm, it can also be remarkably tiring. Among ourselves here, no subject is ever properly decided upon, and the long catalogue of conflicts resulting from our common reality has become really wearing. Take the flag question, for example: a real nightmare that, with its monotonous recurrence, is symptomatic of the territorial illness we suffer from. ... By surprising coincidence, the ERC separatists are demanding that the Catalan flag be displayed alongside the Spanish one in all police stations in Catalonia. We are making little progress this way and becoming increasingly tired."

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