Regional identities in the European Union

homogenization
imperialism
federal

Charles de Gaulle:
How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

regional autonomy

• self-government
  • legislative
  • executive
• taxes stay at home
• police - officers local
• language/dialect
• agriculture (A.O.C.)

Ireland

• Ulster
• Belfast
• Derry/Londonderry
  

British Commonwealth of Nations (1926)
The Troubles

• Bloody Sunday (1973)
• Good Friday Accord (1998)
  • Gerry Adams
  • Martin McGuinness
  • Ian Paisley

Irish Republican Army (IRA)
disarmament (2007)
Sinn Féin

Basque country (Euskaria)
Spain/France
Pyrenees mts.

ETA - Basque Homeland & Freedom
disarmament (2011)

Tirol
Austria/Italy
Alps mts.

home rule
regional autonomy
taxation
policing

Appelation d'Origine Contrôlée
terroir

dialect

UK Prime Minister David Cameron (Bloody Sunday inquiry, 2010)

There is no point in trying to soften or equivocate what is in this report. It is clear from the tribunal’s authoritative conclusions that the events of Bloody Sunday were in no way justified….What happened should never, ever have happened….Some members of our armed forces acted wrongly. The government is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the armed forces and for that, on behalf of the government, indeed, on behalf of our country, I am deeply sorry.