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by elicox 4258 days ago
Accurate? No at all. Try to compare Scotland with Catalonia is not accurate at all. Scotland was a nation before, Catalonia never was a nation before. UK do not have Constitution so is the current parlament which determinate what can be done or not, but in Spain like in other country like USA we have a Constitution, which say "The sovereignty of the Spanish territory falls on all Spanish citizens". So just few can not decide about that.

BBC please, you are taking your source from the Government of Catalonia which is try a Coup d'état (coup) again the rest of Spanish. And is pushing the people to disobedience the authority, another illegal act.

Catalonia is on bankruptcy and is the government of Spain which is giving money to save their economy. And they spoil the money in have 7 public tv channels which only make propaganda about independencia. They spoil the money in all this process of independency instead of invest on the real economy.

All this new wave of independency is not about historic reason because there is not historic reason, neither about get more power because most of the power is already delegate to the regional government. All this start because the current political party in power in the government in Catalonia is full of corruption[1], the previous president of Catalonia[2] is at ready in court for hide more than 3 Billions of euros in banks around the world without pay tax, and all point out that this money was take from commissions, blackmail the companies to pay 3% or 5% from every public contact that make in Catalonia during more than 30 years.

The project of Europe is all about very different countries join together to try to build a more prosper area, to try to avoid nationalize that only bring wars in Europe.

[1] - http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converg%C3%A8ncia_i_Uni%C3%B3#C... [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Pujol_i_Soley#Corruption_...

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Being a nation doesn't require being a state. You might not like it but Catalonia is a nation (seeking to be a state).