Europeans are unhappy with their leadership, and separatist movements exist in many nations which could break up soon, not just Spain. Flanders leaving Belgium, Ukraine seeing eastern provinces like Donbass break away to Russia, Scotland, Northern Ireland, or Wales leaving the United Kingdom seem like realistic possibilities for separatists. Dozens of provinces in Spain, France, Italy and the former Yugoslavia dominate the next tier of most likely separatist movements in Europe.
A single currency and huge bureaucratic government has not led to European unity. And if Nostradamus was right in his predictions, Europe will grow weaker while the Islamic world grows strong enough to invade them within a few more years, with WWIII ending no later than about 2028.
As for Catalonia in Spain: check the excerpts below from the article at Zerohedge.com
Despite growing expectations that Catalan separatist fervor had abated in the aftermath of the post-independence fiasco, consensus was once again set for disappointment and on Thursday night, Spain was thrown back into chaos after the three Catalan separatist parties, Junts per Catalunya, Republican Catalan Left and the CUP, held on to a small but critical majority in the Catalan regional parliamentary election, dealing a stunning rebuke to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his attempt to bury the Catalan independence movement.
With virtually all of the vote counted, the separatists held on to 70 seats, down from 72 in the 2015 election and 1 less than the initial exit polls predicted, just weeks after PM Mariano Rajoy fired the former first minister, Carles Puigdement and his entire government after the held what Madrid dubbed an “illegal referendum” and declared independence on October 27. Yet while the separatists won as a group, the biggest individual winner was the Ciudadanos party, which gained 300,000 more votes and 12 more seats compared to its 2015 position. It was also the single biggest party to emerge from today’s election with a total of 37 seats. Meanwhile for Rajoy’s People’s Party, the result was a disaster as it finished in last place among the mainstream parties with just three seats.
But even more importantly, it was a personal victory for Carles Puigdemont, the ousted Catalan president who campaigned in self-imposed exile from Brussels. His Junts per Catalunya emerged as the most-popular separatist party, handing him a mandate to lead the secession campaign, after Junts per Catalunya beat Oriol Junqueras and Republican Catalan Left to lead the separatist block. As The Spain Report noted, Junts per Catalunya obtained slightly more than 900,000 votes and 34 seats. Esquerra won slightly fewer than 900,000 votes but only 32 seats. The radical-left, pro-independence CUP lost six of its ten seats and about half of its votes.
The Catalan Socialist Party (PSC, Miquel Iceta) gained 50,000 votes and one seat.
The Popular Party in Catalonia, led by Xavier García Albiol, lost eight of its eleven seats, dropping to just three, and, like the CUP, approximately half of its votes. As
Catalunya en Comú Podem, the Podemos brand for these regional elections, lost three seats compared to its previous brand result in 2015, falling to eight seats.
Both blocks obtained more votes than in 2015 due to a turnout that rose six points to 82% compared to 2015.
And while the Ciudadanos ascent was remarkable, the take home of the night is that in this implicit referendum, the Catalan separatist sentiment once again prevailed as Carles Puigdement observed.
Speaking in a press conference in Brussels, the deposed Catalan president said that “the people of Catalonia have given a lesson to the world: the Catalan republic has beaten the monarchy of the 155.” He was referring to the Constitutional Article 155 which the Spanish government used to take control of Catalan government. “The Spanish state has been defeated” Puigdement said and added that “Election results mean reparation, rectification and restitution are needed.”
The deposed leader also said that “the legitimate government must return immediately power in Catalonia”, envisioning of course, himself.
He concluded by claiming that “things are even better for secessionists today than they were two years ago, as the group has gained parliamentary power” and threatened that “if PM Rajoy continues to apply the same recipes he will continue to get the same results.”
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