Separatism in the European Union

... plays an important role, as today Catalonia accounts for one fifth of the Spanish GDP. Photo: AP Bart De Wever, Mayor of Antwerp, Chairman of the New Flemish Alliance The trend of downgrading the sovereign rights of minorities (identical to that in Spain) also developed in Belgium. The hegemony of French-speaking Wallonia over Dutch-speaking Flanders was apparent until the mid-20th Century. Politically, for many years the Flemish were “junior partners” of the Walloons. The situation changed when the Flemish ...