Catalonia independence

[Kasz216]

lestatdark said:

Kasz216 said:

lestatdark said:

The problem with most European countries and their different regions is that those said regions are "burnt" out or completly alienated from their own central goverment.

For example, here in Portugal, the entire north region of the country suffers heavily from the centralization of funds and resources around the Lisbon area. While Porto, Braga and Aveiro districts are the main industrious force of the country (more than 45% of Portugal's Entire GDP is located in those three districts alone), 90% of the european funds go entirely to Lisbon. More and more there's talks of at least forming a regional goverment of the north so we can at least get a much fairer share, or else the situation will be unsustainable in the near future.

Not saying that's the case with Flanders (didn't knew that there was a separatist feeling in Belgium, we don't get that many news from you guys over here sadly) or Scotland, but situations like that can quickly erode a nation.

Scotland is actually the opposite.  They get an outsized amount of funds from the UK, and generally have more generous programs then other areas.

Scottish independence basically wants to kill the golden egg.

Scotland's struggle for independence is more based on historical grounds rather than economy ones correct? Even so, it seems like it's the wrong time for them to do so, since I don't see how they would be economically viable on their own (at least I don't know much about their export/import, industry, overall contribution to the GDP, etc.)

Sort of.  Though even then it's kind of silly based on the more modern history.