Posted: Nov 12, 2017 11:19 am
Macdoc wrote:. 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.
Never mind. Once again cherry picking reports. If you accept Catalan is a country because of culture then stand back for all the other claims.
This region of France has just as much claim as Catalan; Occitanie. Has its own language and culture. Was an autonomous region and has strong nationalist support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitanie or Baskenland https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basken
All regions were oppressed one time or another. The province of Utrecht here has the same claim for years. It was an archbishopric long before the "Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden" existed.
Europe is full of regions. It is not the EU's problem.
Scotland was a country that was united not taken over or oppressed.