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What Europe Would Look Like if all the Separatists Won

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:09AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:42PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:42PM (#97349) Homepage
    I'm on your side here. The larger the company I've worked for, the less well run it's been, far lower efficiency, worse work ethic, the more corrupt, the more bullshit, the more places for waste. And basically there's no accountability. I believe countries are the same. The biggest ones really are too big to operate efficiently, they are simply lumbering dinosaurs, who alas still have the capability of crushing small things that get in their way. Germany's normally ahead of the curve when it comes to these things, I look forward to reindependence of Bayern, maybe that would get the ball rolling.

    I am way happier with how I can see the system run (and fail, but everyone can see that, and it's easier to fix) in a country whose entire population is only one fifth of the city where I was born and grew up.
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