Hard words for Catalan nationalists but Catalonia isn’t a country never was and never will be, if it was it would be broke within a day and would beg Spain to let it back. Also it would be out of the EU If the U.K which is the 6th biggest economy in the world, 70 million popular and a major international player has struggled with Brexit how will Catalonia survive? It’s a complete fantasy and a reckless one at that, the idiocy and arrogance of nationalists never ceases to Amaze me. Spain is a absolutely wonderful country with a rich and storied history that every Spanish person should be immensely proud of, it is still a major international player and has real clout especially within Europe, as a Hispanophile I’d be gutted to see Spain destroyed by arrogant nationalists. Long live Spain and hopefully it stays United and sees off the nationalist threat, love from the U.K 🇬🇧🇪🇸
I wonder what it feels like to march for something that’s never going to happen
I often think about what would happen if Central and Eastern European countries such as Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia joined EU before they disintegrated into national states. I guess it would look similar to this. Nationalism is such an easy low hanging fruit for politicians.
Czechoslovakia split into two countries because of two politicians decided to pull the rug. There was no big support from general public – estimate was only around 10% on Slovak side. Hence there was no referendum about it.
It seems both Czechs and Slovaks managed to get to EU and there are no national issues between them. So nationalists on both sides need to find some other enemy they can blame for their problems.
I wish that Europe was built around same model as Switzerland’s confederation without need for the national/state level. Regions would have representation in EU parliament instead of the national level.
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Again? Let them go already. No?
So, how far off are regional elections?
Much less than last year, and the non-Covid years before that, on a steady downwards trend.
Not many march for unity but that’s also not necessary because the secession is impossible.
Useful idiots led by a bunch of russian sponsored power thirsty assholes who certainly do not have their interest nor europeans interests in mind
[https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-group-offered-catalan-separatist-leaders-10000-soldiers-according-to-judge/](https://www.politico.eu/article/russian-group-offered-catalan-separatist-leaders-10000-soldiers-according-to-judge/)
[https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/fueling-secession-promising-bitcoins-how-a-russian-operator-urged-catalonian-leaders-to-break-with-madrid](https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/fueling-secession-promising-bitcoins-how-a-russian-operator-urged-catalonian-leaders-to-break-with-madrid)
this is so stupid.
Hard words for Catalan nationalists but Catalonia isn’t a country never was and never will be, if it was it would be broke within a day and would beg Spain to let it back. Also it would be out of the EU If the U.K which is the 6th biggest economy in the world, 70 million popular and a major international player has struggled with Brexit how will Catalonia survive? It’s a complete fantasy and a reckless one at that, the idiocy and arrogance of nationalists never ceases to Amaze me. Spain is a absolutely wonderful country with a rich and storied history that every Spanish person should be immensely proud of, it is still a major international player and has real clout especially within Europe, as a Hispanophile I’d be gutted to see Spain destroyed by arrogant nationalists. Long live Spain and hopefully it stays United and sees off the nationalist threat, love from the U.K 🇬🇧🇪🇸
I wonder what it feels like to march for something that’s never going to happen
I often think about what would happen if Central and Eastern European countries such as Czechoslovakia or Yugoslavia joined EU before they disintegrated into national states. I guess it would look similar to this. Nationalism is such an easy low hanging fruit for politicians.
Czechoslovakia split into two countries because of two politicians decided to pull the rug. There was no big support from general public – estimate was only around 10% on Slovak side. Hence there was no referendum about it.
It seems both Czechs and Slovaks managed to get to EU and there are no national issues between them. So nationalists on both sides need to find some other enemy they can blame for their problems.
I wish that Europe was built around same model as Switzerland’s confederation without need for the national/state level. Regions would have representation in EU parliament instead of the national level.