Separatism threatens the future of Spain

Separatism has stormed on to the agenda in 2012 amid the worst crisis of the post-Franco, democratic era. Alongside the eurozone crisis and Spain’s worsening public finances and chronic lack of economic growth and jobs, the Spanish Government looks to be sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis that could lead to the break-up of Spain.

The centre-right government of Mariano Rajoy seems to aim to use the present financial crisis not just to shrink the state but to recentralise it.

ESO: Background information: Catalonia heightens Spanish debt fears http://www.europeansources.info/record/catalonia-heightens-spanish-debt-fears/

ESO: Background information: Spain: Autonomy under fir http://www.europeansources.info/record/spain-autonomy-under-fire/

Wikipedia: Autonomous communities of Spain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain

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