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What Europe Would Look Like if all the Separatists Won

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:09AM   
from the drawing-between-the-lines dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Voters in Scotland have turned down independence for now, but separatist movements continue across Europe, possibly threatening to dismantle Spain, France, and Belgium as well as the UK. The next milestone will be an independence vote on Nov. 9 in Catalonia, the region on the northeast coast of Spain which includes Barcelona; separatists are expected to win handily, but the vote is not binding on the Spanish government. Slate has a neat map showing what a completely redrawn Europe would look like, if accommodations were made for all movements that have joined a loose collective called European Free Alliance; a more complete but visually less satisfying map, including EFA holdouts such as Northern Ireland, appears in Wikipedia. The Washington Post has thumbnail descriptions of eight movements.

• Some of these are very marginal Some of these are very marginal (Score: 5, Informative) by Gorath99 on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:39AM

  by Gorath99 (1249) on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:39AM (#97081)

  It's an interesting map, but some of these movements are very marginal indeed. For instance, East Fisia [wikipedia.org] has about half a million inhabitants, and the party pushing for East Frisian interests [wikipedia.org] has only about 90 members.

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• Re:Some of these are very marginal Re:Some of these are very marginal (Score: 4, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday September 23 2014, @10:02AM

  by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday September 23 2014, @10:02AM (#97086) Journal

  There might not be that many folk in Friesia, but they have plenty of ex-pats living abroad. Seems you can't go anywhere in the countryside here without seeing great crowds [google.co.uk] of them hanging about.

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  • Re:Some of these are very marginal (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Tuesday September 23 2014, @10:19AM

    by jimshatt (978) on Tuesday September 23 2014, @10:19AM (#97090) Journal

    Bring it on, I eat Frisians for breakfast! Or dinner. Sometimes lunch.

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  • Re:Some of these are very marginal (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @02:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @02:39PM (#97173)

    plenty of ex-pats

    I see what you did there

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• Re:Some of these are very marginal (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @11:06AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @11:06AM (#97099)

  Not to mention that it loads different pages every time I try to scroll (I'm a keyboard user).

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