Why don't the Catalan and Basque and Galician and Valencian nationalist groups coordinate their efforts to break away from Spain together? Wouldn't they be a more powerful voice if they unified their efforts to break off from Spain?
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Simply because the parties concerned insist on speaking their own language and there are so few people who can translate between Basque and Catalan. Then the silly things such as the fact that Mallorquin speakers say that their language is NOT Catalan. And the Catalans are iffy about Valenciano and Alicantino. And as for Bable! That's the problem with Nationalists, the whole basis of their argument is to be racially, politically and linguistically independent. The practicalities make a nonsense of the whole idea of interdependent nationalism . The EU has a similar problem finding Finnish / Modern Greek translators.
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Apart from a percentage of Basques and Catalans, I don't think that there is a great feeling towards devolution in Spain. For one, if they were all to become separate countries they would no longer be recognized by the EU, and as such all funding and support would be dropped. If they then wished to reapply to become a Member state the process may take as long as 5 years to achieve. Many Regions just aren't cash rich enough to go it alone for that long.
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Because that would diminish one or more group's strength in the movement. And because their goals aren't that similar.
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First of all because the majority of the people in their areas are not independentists. Also, if Catalonia, Galicia, Andalucia, etc decided to promote independence, they will be saying that Spain is only the region of Castile, and that would basically say that what they are not is castilians. Something that we already know. Castile is a region, Spain is the group of all the regions of Spain. Saying that you are not Castile does not help on saying you are not Spain. So the only way to avoid this problem is saying that Spain is everything but one especific region. That goes against the idea of going together.
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I agree with Bertuccio. You can't be saying they're breaking away from "Spain" because all those regions are part of Spain. Most of the people of those regions are not for independence (btw, you forgot the Leonese and Andalusian Independence movements lol). I think the main issue is that they make a lot of noise, but in reality, they are only a fraction of the people in those areas (the area with most support perhaps being Catalonia).
