Posted on 10/05/2017 8:17:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like vultures, the worldwide press is starting to celebrate the anticipated disintegration of Spain.
The Catalans are determined to go. Considering that Catalonia is the richest province in Spain (by absolute numbers), Spain would suffer an economic hit should Catalonia go.
However, always alongside the separatist Catalans are the Basque, who have the highest per capita output in Spain – but only one third the population base. Navarre Province (which is heavily Basque in the north) came in second per capita in 2010. Madrid was a mere third per capita, but much of that is artificial wealth, because the national bureaucracy sucks in money from the rest of the country. Catalonia is fourth. However, because Catalonia has a much larger population overall, it comes in first for absolute income (2014).
The northern Spanish region of the Basque country has Spain's highest GDP per capita, at €30,051 ($32,600), almost double that of Spain's poorest region[.] ...
The Basque Country has traditionally been one of Spain's main industrial hubs, and today is home to thriving aeronautics and energy industries[.] –The Local.es (2015)
Everyone knows that the Basque, the real powerhouse on the Iberian peninsula, are paying close attention to what is happening in Catalonia.
Pro-independence parties in Basque Country are showing their support for Catalonia's referendum on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of people attended a rally on Friday in the capital of the autonomous community in northern Spain backing Catalan separatists.
So it would seems that Spain is in for a roller coaster ride.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If Yugoslavia can break up, why can’t Spain?
The Basque separatist movement died out over the past 10 years as they’ve gotten a ton of autonomy from Madrid, and they realized that independence would just make them a broke backwater, as they have nothing to offer for export, and Andorra already fulfills the role of Europe’s outlet mall shopping district.
Ef all western Euroweenies...
Because the globalist and banking interests that have turned a common market into a take-over of Europe want the more productive Catalonians and Basques to subsidize the less productive regions.
Anything that breaks up the EU is a good thing.
Why would anyone want to be subservient to a bunch of unelected criminal thugs like the EU?? I’d get out too.
Give them back Puerto Rico.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
They need solid reasons for separating...and maybe they have them but they shouldn't do it lightly. Our founding fathers didn't do it lightly. It took a lot to provoke them to declare independence.
Croats are mostly Roman Catholic.
Serbs are mostly Orthodox...
If the Beatles can break up, why not spain...
It’s no accident that in the last century, the Basque and Catalan independence movements were backed by the Soviet Union and other Communists, while Franco’s right wing government cracked down on them. Today as then, the Catalan and Basque separatists are leftists, not right-wing nationalists. If they are granted independence from Madrid, you will have two more countries that are even more beholden to the EU and to internationalist ideology than Spain is, and two countries that will facilitate the transformation of western Europe into Eurabia even faster than what’s taking place now.
people have the right to self governance
Muslims, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholics have been murdering one another since the time of the Ottomans and the Habsburgs. There is no similar murderous ethnic hatred between Castillians vs. Catalans or Basques (in spite of a minority fringe of the ETA that most Basques oppose).
Drama queen. Splitting into to independent countries is not “disintegration”.
Spain is simply not federal enough in its governance.
And for that matter neither is the U.S.
There is much to be said about what unity there can be a truly federal nation, where Liberty, including the liberty of states/provinces is a celebrated part of nationhood, non an inconsequential.
It is Liberty in the agreement to disagree that can keep a republic together, and as it does not exist or is trimmed away to excessive centralization of power and rule, centrifugalism develops.
So what is it really that so often threatens “national unity”? The insistence that we must be more and more a “unified” on everything, and essential Liberty begins to erode to the point where parts no longer feel like a part of the whole.
Yes, you can kill “national unity” with excessive “national unity” of policies.
I think a Spanish breakup would have little consequence. One of the reasons for uniting a larger country is security. Nobody is about to invade Spain, on the far side of the Pyrenees. And, even a split-up Spain is strong enough to defend against African refugee invader influx across Gibraltar... if they choose to do so.
Spain is oh so great, it built a forest of electric power windmills. /sarc Thanks SeekAndFind.
Yugoslavia was an artificial state created at the Treaty of Versailles to encompass the Slavic peoples of the Balkans that had formerly been part of the Austro-Hungarian or Ottoman Empires. It was only held together by brute force, specifically the Tito Communist dictatorship for 40 years after World War II. When Communism collapsed, so did Yugoslavia. OTOH, Spain has been a unified nation for over 500 years, not unlike Britain, where minority nationalities like the Scots and the Welsh were subject to the dominant nationality in a geographic entity defined by bodies of water, and in Spain’s case, partially by a mountain range. Even Portugal fell under Spanish rule for periods of time.
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