Posted: Nov 12, 2017 2:23 am
. Catalan is a province which makes it internal. Scotland is a country.
Catalonia is an autonomous region( or was ) of Spain with their own language and the culture pre-dates Spain.
They are as much a "country" as Scotland is.
http://www.languedoc-france.info/190305_catalan.htm
Catalonia and Ireland are often paired/compared in their struggles for independence from an unwanted and at times oppressive "partner". Parts of Southern France are also historically Catalan and oppressed as a culture by France.
https://www.uoc.edu/euromosaic/web/docu ... i5/i5.html
I's like to see both Scotland and Catalonia independent people's in reality to chart their own course. In theory EU should be able to accommodate that in its structure.