About European separatism and the new European model. Catalonia (video)

alex-anpilogov.livejournal.com 13.11.2015 10:35

As it was in the early times. Locate on the map Madrid.

Gave a lot, expanded interview with TV channel "TV Day" for the situation around Catalonia and her desire to leave the "Spain united":

youtu.be/FaA6GH8ZM-U

Short abstract:

- The territory of Catalonia, historically, from the time of the Visigoths and Romans, was the most "original Spain" from whose territory the first colonization was carried inland areas of the Iberian Peninsula, and then Reconquista, which ended in the expulsion of the Moors from Spain;

- Catalonia lost its independent and later autonomous status within Spain after a series of alliances and wars. The objective is the process that determined the decline of Catalonia, was the transfer of the center of world trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

- Finally, the autonomy of Catalonia was crushed during the fascist Franco dictatorship, which also creates a story of injustice in modern operations center of the Spanish government;

- Allies of Catalonia in the process of further autonomy and federalization of Spain are the central organs of the EU who are interested in a greater role for individual regions of the European countries and belittling the importance of national governments;

- Support for the independence of Catalonia is not so broad as it can be concluded according to media reports. Currently supports the independence of Catalonia, about a third of the population;

- The most likely is the process of "creeping" autonomy of Catalonia, in which the powers of Madrid will slowly flow in Barcelona and Brussels;

- An open civil conflict in Spain associated with Catalonia, is unlikely - the Catalans and Spaniards did not have as many conflicts to come into the open, and even more so - armed confrontation;

- Most likely, Madrid will strongly discourage the referendum in Catalonia, given the greater dynamism of public sentiment in Spain rather than, for example, "cold and quiet" of Scotland;

- Borotba sider! (La lucha continúa!)

At the end of talked a little bit about the conflicts of international law and on the situation in Ukraine, it came like too interesting.