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Ghost Dog

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9. Good to hear about Scottish diplomacy in action.
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 06:47 AM
Mar 2017

Tremlett tends to specialise in filing largely frivolous stories from Spain, infotainment, rather than cover serious stuff in any depth.

Catalonia's situation is not very directly comparable to that of Scotland. The voluntary Union of the two Nation States, two Kingdoms, can be revised and even dissolved. Catalonia was never a Nation State in the formal sense in the last millennium (although politically it was always different, with more power for the bourgeoisie and local councils in relation to the aristocracy than in the rest of Spain). The two Kingdoms that combined were those of Castille and Aragon (including Sardinia, Naples, Sicily for a time)... The third Kingdom (leaving aside Portugal) was that of Granada... It really would be best, imho, for evolved, devolved Spain including Catalans, to hold together, and together sweep away all the corruption in power almost everywhere, including perhaps above all in Catalonia as well as in Madrid.

I agree that independent Scotland will of course be able to join the EU. Not sure how long the wait will have to be.

As for Gibraltar... What a canker.

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