Catalonia, a model for European regions?

"Catalans, Spaniards and Europeans all have reason to be proud of Sunday's democratic decision to expand the powers of self-government available to the citizens of Catalonia," asserts an editorial in the financial daily. "The Catalans wanted it. The Spanish parliament mandated it as constitutionally lawful. And the European Union provides a framework - part architecture, part shock-absorbers - that should make such exercises perfectly ordinary. ... The deep-rooted and culturally ineradicable nationalism of Basques and Catalans ... still excites visceral opposition from Spain's right, and discomfits its more Jacobin left. All credit, then, to Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Socialist prime minister, for insisting that more devolution, to the extent that it democratically empowers those of Spain's citizens who want it, will strengthen the country."

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