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Consider Scotland, where a popular referendum on independence will be held on September 18.
In Spain, there is a national debate about independence for Catalonia, where national identity is strengthened by the fact that the majority of the region’s residents speak Catalan as well as Spanish.
Perhaps as a result, support for independence in Catalonia appears to be far broader, with about half of the region’s residents saying that they support secession.
But the Spanish parliament voted overwhelmingly against allowing the Catalan government to hold a referendum on independence, and the central government has said that such a vote would be unconstitutional.
If a majority of the voters in a distinct region of a country favor independence, does that mean that they have a right to secede?
The UK and Spain do not need to fear that independence for Scotland and Catalonia would expose them to such threats.
Nonetheless, the secession of Scotland would deprive the UK of significant North Sea oil revenues, on which the economics of Scottish independence largely relies, and Spain could also suffer from the loss of Catalonia’s disproportionately large contribution to the Spanish economy.
That was the case when Bangladesh seceded from Pakistan, and it was also allegedly the case when NATO supported Kosovo’s independence from Serbia.
The EU is also unlikely to accept Scotland or Catalonia as a member if the UK or Spain rejects their claims to independence.
Indeed, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has said that the EU may reject Scotland and Catalonia’s applications, or at least delay them considerably, even if the UK and Spain do accept their independence.
And, without EU membership, it is hard to imagine that a majority of people in Scotland or Catalonia would take the plunge into economic uncertainty that independence would bring.
A large turnout showing a clear majority for independence would be a way to say: See how strongly we feel about this issue.
A similar risk can be found in Catalonia’s bid for independence from Spain.
For example, an unofficial poll recently showed that 89% of residents in Italy’s northern “Repubblica Veneta” back independence.
One can easily imagine the government in Edinburgh opposing the new secessionists, just as Westminster opposes Scottish independence today.
This not only surpassed what ten years ago on Heroes Square sounded like chutzpah, it also delivered historical justice to the Hungarian freedom-fighters of 1956 who had fought for Hungary's independence, but were crushed by Soviet tanks.
Its members, with statutory independence and long terms in office, could function like the monetary policy committee of a central bank.
But will Pakistan’s military once more inject itself directly into the political arena, as it has done four times in the six decades since independence?
In 1957, when legal segregation seemed entrenched in the US, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, used the occasion of his country’s independence from Britain to highlight the injustices experienced daily by black Americans.
As political reform achieves results, Israel will no longer be able to claim that it is the only democracy in the Middle East; with conditions changing on the ground, it will be increasingly difficult to ignore Palestinians’ demand for independence.
Boundaries drawn in colonial times, even if unchanged after independence, still create problems, especially in Africa.
Perhaps more to the point, they feel that as long as a European security system is not in place, they may yet need the US to defend their security and independence.
For many years, France has called for a European economic government for the euro zone, which Germany has so far rejected, for good reasons: France’s initiative was nothing but a hidden attack against EU members’ annual fiscal-deficit ceiling of 3% of GDP and worse, against the ECB’s independence.
It would be far better for the German government to take the bull by the horns by defining the principles of a European economic government in such a way that both countercyclical debt policy within the Maastricht framework and the ECB’s independence are preserved.
Deregulation will supposedly slay the “deep state” chimera, while enabling the US to achieve energy independence.
Still, both sides are united in their belief that Poland should have a strong alliance with the United States, and should support Ukrainian independence (though the right does harbor some grievances against Ukraine for various historical transgressions).
The European Commission, once a strong proponent of Poland in its bid for energy independence, has no interest in opposing Germany, and is now at odds with the PiS government on many issues.
Beyond that, the key feature of an aging society is the independence of the elderly.
Indeed, paranoia about US imperialism is part of the cult of independence.
It was also a violation of the UN Charter, which includes the statement: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
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