Catalonian Independence?

[S.Peelman]

c03n3nj0 said:

Mr Khan said:

c03n3nj0 said:

What's that Belgium thing about? Haven't read/heard about anything going on there. The rest makes sense. Especially Basque since Catalonia would be setting a clear precendent. 

Belgium didn't even have a government (only an interim government) for about 3 years or so recently, because they can't get the French-speakers of Wallonia and the Flemish-Dutch speakers of Flanders to cooperate. Since Belgium federalized in 1994, they've had a fair issue with separatism, and the country probably won't exist in 30 years.

Ah, m'kay, thanks!

Silly Belgians. Might as well give Wallonia to France and Flanders to Holland. :P 

Mr Khan is right. I agree that if Catalonia gets it's way, or Scotland maybe too, that it would trigger a chain-reaction across similar regions in Europe. And Belgium might as well do what you say.

Personally, as a Dutchman, I would be happy if Flanders would rejoin the Netherlands. They were part of the Netherlands just after the Napoleon era and before the Spanish era. It's economically a very strong region, not to mention it contains some beautiful cities.

However, I think most Flemish people would rather be independant. I think they fear having to deal with the same kind of crap that they are now.

Also, there is the issue of Brussels. Geographically, it is in Flanders. Politically it is seperate from the other two regions and linguistically it is French. What to do? Speaking of the French, I don't know how they'd feel about Wallonia joining them. Flanders could be independant, Wallonia likely can't.