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The EU treaties are silent on internal secession (Photo: SBA73)

Would an independent Catalonia remain in the EU?

On 11 September 2013, 2 million Catalan citizens reached out forming a human chain over 400 kilometres long.

This impressive demonstration, known as “Catalan Way to Independence,” showed, once again, that a huge majority of the Catalan people (around 80 percent according to the polls) wants to exercise the right to decide on their own future as a nation, and that a majority would choose independence (around 55 percent, excluding those still undecided).

But so far Spain is not al...

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The EU treaties are silent on internal secession (Photo: SBA73)

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