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> there is a certain tension between wanting to be an independent country, and then also wanting to join the EU Not necessarily. For example, regarding offici
by enriquto 4y ago
> there is a certain tension between wanting to be an independent country, and then also wanting to join the EU
Not necessarily. For example, regarding official languages, there's no way that Gaelic would be an official EU language if Ireland was not directly part of the EU.
And if Catalonia gained its independence, then Catalan would likely become an officially recognized language in the EU (which it isn't, due to spanish interference). Actually, this is one of the most important motivations for many pro-indepencence supporters in Catalonia (of which nearly all of them are pro-EU).
- gadders 4y agoSo they could have a language, but lose most of everything else?
- enriquto 4y agoThat's a pretty big deal, actually... imagine (assuming that you are an English monolingual) that suddenly the geopolitics around your city change, and you can not live your daily life using English anymore. You need to learn another, foreign language, that becomes the sole official language. Would you be happy, even if you kept "most of everything else" ?