Ekonomické aspekty desintegračních tendencí v EU

Abstract

Abstract Economic Aspects of Disintegrating Tendencies in the EU Petra Woroňová

The aim of this dissertation is to discuss nationalism and separatist tendencies of national minorities historically belonging to the states of the European Union. The main goal of the research is to explore and characterize areas where the separatism problem exists and to evaluate the likelihood of secession of these territories. More specifically the paper is focused on two Spanish regions, Basque and Catalonia, two British regions, Scotland and Northern Ireland and Flanders in Belgium. Mainly descriptive method based on the description of historical events and research of current available sociological, political and economic information is used to analyse the likelihood of secession of these territories.