Secessionist leaders from Italy to Spain to Belgium closely analyzed the independence campaign in Scotland and are already breaking down the polling numbers and strategies used there.

Belgium's peaceful breakup, were it to happen, could set a precedent for other Western European partition movements, ... unseen in Belgium since the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960. ...

Sixty-five years after the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a key figure in the Congolese independence movement, the ...

Catalonia is the independence movement of the moment as Spain is busy taking extraordinary steps to block Catalonia from continuing down the path toward independence. Other independence movements ...

Independence movements in these regions of Britain, Belgium and Spain are raising concerns about the stability of a fractious European Union trying to forge closer ti. Skip to content.

While in some territories, such as South Sudan which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of fighting, the movement descended into civil war, in other places, like Nagorno-Karabakh ...

That’s much more explosive for the survival of Belgium than the idea of Flanders proclaiming independence.” Van Grieken takes the point. “It is not because there is a Flemish-national party that ...