I don’t really care, except how this affects the US military bases.
What happens to FC Barcelona? They probably won’t be allowed in the Spanish League, where would they go?
Mom is Basque and this would be welcome news!
Wife is Basque/Catalan, she welcomes it also but doesn’t understand the politics and history behind this movement.
My mom’s native language or heritage isn’t even remotely related to “Spain”.
Precisely what is desperately needed in the U.S.
They’ve been trying to be independent for centuries.
It is always interesting (and instructive) to watch the Tour d’France and its matching La Vuelta a Espana cycling races. The ‘national’ flags seen are seldom of the NATION one expects from the map and they do reflect this article and also the regions in France as well. It is almost as if one were to seldom see the Stars&Stripes and instead see the state flags in pride of place. Of course that is EXPECTED in Texas which is the exception that proves the rule!
Still these regional secession efforts will continue (Scotland, Wales, Cornwall etc.) as the localities see little advantage to their conglomeration in current times. Spain, which once included Portugal, came together in the Reconquista as the Islamic Moors were driven out over a 500+ year period. The various regions mentioned here derive from Roman times onward but were ‘suppressed’ by external dangers and internal governments. It will be very interesting to see how far this goes - will the EU survive if Europe fragments?
Of goody. Another sign we’re entering the second Middle Ages. The rise of the city-states... again.