Thermodolia wrote:Spain's current debt? If Catalonia doesn't take on its share of the debt it's not going to get into the EU. While Spain now without its cash cow and saddled with massive amounts of debt will default sending a financial shock wave across the EU. It won't be pretty and could possibly spell doom for the EU and I hope to God that a collapsing EU doesn't trigger a world wide economic crisis.
Which really just proves that the Spanish debt, like the rest of the 'PIIG' group, needs a more permanent solution than implementing harsh austerity and kicking the can down the road like the EU has done so far. That's one of the things that needs to be talked about between the EU, its member states, the Catalonians and the Spanish. The fact that we're here talking about quashing a benign democratic independence movement because it needs to get chained to the yoke so Spain can remain solvent is proof of that.
Senkaku wrote:"Spain and the EU should disregard all their own interests, the precedent it would set, and the fact that this isn't even legal, because muh d1rect democracy"
Sitting down and talking is not against Spain and the EU's interests. Costs nothing and could literally prevent civil war.