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The aggressive attitude towards Catalan separatism by the Spanish government seems that it will make independence inevitable...

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What is aggressive about not allowing official data to be stored in foreign servers? I wonder if, for example, the US would allow the government of Oregon to store official data about their citizens in Russian servers they cannot access.

The Spanish governments (current and previous ones) have made many mistakes, and taken measures that can be discussed and even plainly rejected, but this one seems quite reasonable to me.

To be honest, I think we already are in a point of no-return. Not necessarily to the independence though, but who knows...

What's the alternative to independence if they cannot return to the status quo?

Civil war.

yeah, either that or splitting the region in two parts. Who knows, it's a very difficult situation at the moment.

I think a new Constitution is the only solution. It could be possible to reform the Spanish State to make it federal or confederal and hopefully this would be accepted by all the political forces involved. However, this new Constitution would have to be voted by all of Spanish citizens in a referendum, not only the Catalans.

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