One other thing I’ve already learnt here is the idea of “Spanish” is quite similar to the idea of “European”. Like sure I’m a European, but it’s very much a distant secondary identity for me compared to being Irish. The Spanish think that way about Spain - they’re all Galician or basque or whatever first and Spanish quite a distant second. I don’t see Spain remaining the impression of unitary state they currently are for very long, and oddly the more EU integration advances the more the breakup of countries like Spain (primarily) but also Italy, Britain and probably even Germany also advances. Why stay in these weird federalist structures if your weird federalist structure is actually the EU? If the EU federalists get their way we could be pushing 150 separate countries in this small continent easily enough.
One other thing I’ve already learnt here is the idea of “Spanish” is quite similar to the idea of “European”. Like sure I’m a European, but it’s very much a distant secondary identity for me compared to being Irish. The Spanish think that way about Spain - they’re all Galician or basque or whatever first and Spanish quite a distant second. I don’t see Spain remaining the impression of unitary state they currently are for very long, and oddly the more EU integration advances the more the breakup of countries like Spain (primarily) but also Italy, Britain and probably even Germany also advances. Why stay in these weird federalist structures if your weird federalist structure is actually the EU? If the EU federalists get their way we could be pushing 150 separate countries in this small continent easily enough.
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