Scotland
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Scotland: UK cashes in on independence fears
24 April 20136216PresseuropFinancial Times, The Herald -
United Kingdom: ‘New report: Scots paying more tax than rest of UK’
12 April 2013454PresseuropThe Herald -
Separatism: Keep calm and carry on
9 January 201328451 EUobserver.com Brussels -
2012 in cartoons: To each his own
31 December 201298 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Scotland: Salmond’s blushes
7 December 201231 The Guardian London -
Regions: Separatism is dragging Europe back to the Middle Ages
3 December 2012116078 24 Chasa Sofia -
Scotland: Calton, capital of the disinherited
27 November 201214314 Trouw Amsterdam -
Catalonia-Scotland: EU’s doors closing on separatists
30 October 201226015PresseuropEl País, Financial Times -
Regions: Towards the exit
22 October 201249 Trouw Amsterdam -
United Kingdom: Cameron and Salmond take the leap
17 October 201238 The Times London -
Catalonia-Scotland: Spain, Britain and the forbidden fruits of independence
16 October 201246649 Financial Times London -
Separatism: A symptom of the debt crisis
16 October 2012536PresseuropLa Tribune, De Standaard, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland -
European Union: Richer regions want to redraw the map
8 October 201224236 The New York Times New York -
United Kingdom: Scotland - oil, wind and whisky galore
29 March 201234625 The Observer London -
Regions: Separatists marching under the EU banner
21 March 20122268 Uważam Rze Warsaw -
Scotland: “Devo max” - the formula that could save the UK
13 January 201215425 The Guardian London -
Scotland: Independence talk, but no referendum yet
8 September 2011PresseuropThe Scotsman -
Regions: How Scotland is taking the Catalonia road
25 May 201126013 El País Madrid -
United Kingdom: Scotland heads for independence
9 May 20113PresseuropThe Scotsman
From Scotland’s membership of the EU should it split from the UK, to handling requests for military help to put down pro-independence movements, the recent rise in European secessionist spirit poses tricky questions for the Union. EU leaders should keep their cool, argues a Greek journalist. 
Catalans, Scots, Flemish... Western Europe is succumbing in its turn to the sirens of separatism. For Bulgarian essayist Ivaylo Dichev, the new nationalists are entrenching themselves as feudal lords behind the walls of their economic prosperity, under the guise of protecting their identities. 
A victim of factory closures in the 1970s and 80s, Glasgow's Calton district holds several unfortunate claims to fame: high unemployment; poor life expectancy; low per capital income. Cuts in social programmes leave little hope that this situation will improve. 
While British PM David Cameron has signed off on a Scottish independence referendum for 2014, Spain rules out a similar vote in Catalonia as unconstitutional. One decision is politically mature, the other likely to fuel rising secessionist demands, argues Gideon Rachman. 
The crisis is reviving old historical and economic quarrels between rich regions with a strong sense of identity and central governments. But as the latest example of Catalonia shows, the question is whether the EU encourages stability or secessionist tendencies. 
With Scotland set to vote on independence in 2014, future ownership of the UK's North Sea oil fields could see it becoming one of the world’s richest nations. 
Scotland, like Catalonia or the self-proclaimed Padania in Italy, is now talking openly of its independence. For these regions the European ideal is a political argument, even if a place in the European Union would not necessarily be a good thing for them. 
While most Scots reject a complete break with the UK, they favour a form of autonomy which would include powers to raise their own taxes. The reluctant English should accept this, argue Simon Jenkins. 
The victory of the Scottish nationalists in the May 5 elections has revived the debate over Scottish independence. But if the example of Catalonia and the Basque country is anything to go by, what looms on the horizon is a confederation of Europe, says El País.