Seems to me that the future is fewer, bigger countries or lots of relatively fluid, cooperative ones- more, better borders, more directly representative democracy. There’s nothing magic or sacred about the size of any one country and pretending otherwise leads to friction at best, wars, all sorts of bad juju. Soft borders change the reality of countries in Europe massively.
And bringing brexit into a debate that’s been happening for centuries years is the most brexity-little-britain thing I can imagine.
Well that’s where the crux of the matter lies init. Are the Catalans a distinct and colonised people that the right to self determination is aimed at or are they a region simply trying to secede from a parent country, cause the concept of self determination on the latter there doesn’t really exist,
Why not? A historical distinction makes things easier- nobody asks where the borders of an independent scotland would be- but it’s not a prerequisite. In this case, Catalonia’s a pretty well established region too but if Milton Keynes decides to go it alone, what does it matter if they were ever the Kingdom of Milltown and the Free Republic of Keens?