Catalan independence. Who will be the next in the EU?

People hang up the Catalan flag

Last Sunday, on 1st October 2017, 2.26 Million people voted  the Catalan referendum showing 90% in favour of indipendence. 1996 polling stations out of 2315 weren't closed although the Spanish government had declared the poll to be illegal. Unfortunately, police battled their way into voting stations to confiscate ballot boxes.

Catalan referendum was deemed illegal by the Spanish Supreme Court. On the one hand, section 2 of the Spanish Constitutional law says that the unity of Spanish people is indissoluble. On the other hand, Spanish Constitutional law indicates Spanish people, and Catalans think they are different from Spanish people. Catalan culture in past has experienced many challenges in efforts to maintain its distinct identity. 

In this perspective, other EU countries, which are structurated in a federal state pattern, are afraid the escalating conflict, between the Spanish government and Catalan separatists, may affect their political systems. That's why EU leaders haven't denounced the brutal police crackdown on Catalan independence referendum. They would like to think the dispute is an internal Spanish matter. It's easy to see that other people in the EU may begin to follow the Catalan independence path.