Easy to blame the EU for doing nothing. If the EU somehow did manage to intervene using its imaginary security forces, I'm sure you'd be blaming them for meddling in affairs that don't concern them.And The EU sits on its hands whilst one of its member states sends militarised law enforcement firing plastic bullets against its lawful old age citizens.
And many of he British ‘left’ are desperate to stay part of his fascistic , banker and big business cabal.
Plus Article 7 of the EU states than any member that uses the military on its own people will be expelled.Do as you are told, peasent!
Precisely the point mate; everyone has the right to hold a referendum on membership of a region or union. The Spanish Government can argue the point against holding one, but to be seen to use force to prevent it? As someone else stated the whole world is watching this; just because Catalonia may vote for independence it still does not grant them the power to have it. In essence the exercise is merely a 'statement of intent' that would mean the Spanish Government having to address the issue rather than bury their heads in the sand. Bleating 'it's unconstitutional' means nothing as they can be re-written, changed, adapted. Spain could lose a lot of international support by not addressing the Catalonians as we in the UK did with the Scottish Referendum.
Fair play to Barca. Hate the club but that’s a huge move to protest and protect its fans.Barca game being played behind closed doors.
Well that would eliminate any problematic issues of there being a barrier to an independent Catalonia joining the EU, should that be their decision in the future.Plus Article 7 of the EU states than any member that uses the military on its own people will be expelled.
A bit of the advisory big brother: 'It would, of course, not be good for x if y was to actually manifest...'They sit out of it to allow the 'national governments' take all the flak for their heavyhanded approach and they are seen as being diplomatic and non-interventional.
Of course this has been exposed with their Foreign Minister Dastis stating that "it runs counter to the goals and ideals of the European Union".
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