Just split!

More than a million Catalans marched in Barcelona after a Spanish court ruled that there is no legal basis for classing Catalonia as a nation.
Such developments are observed in earnest in places like ex-Yugoslavia as its quite interesting to see the different approaches taken by powerful countries and associations like the USA and EU in dealing with these issues. When a multinational, socialist country like Yugoslavia faced similar problems about individual national identity, despite some superficial show of support for maintaining unity, the West more than facilitated Yugoslavia's quick dissolution into statelets which they later could control. The latest example of this madness was when the EU, idealistically championing for the dissolution of borders and bringing Europe closer together, supported Montenegro's rapid bid for independence in 2006, leading to yet more separation and another needless border drawn in the Balkans. However, when the same problems occur in allied capitalist countries like Spain, no support is given for nations like Catalonia to declare independence, draw new borders and dissolve national unions. Again, ex-Yugoslavs see this as double standards. I didn't like how Yugoslavia had mutated into a greater Serbia by the 1980s threatening individual nations of their identities, so likewise I fully support for Spain to dissolve completely and grant independence to the separate nations of Catalonia, Euskadi and Galicia. In any case, the differences between these nations and Castillian Spain are far greater than between the ex-Yugoslav statelets. Plus, there are more Catalan speakers than there are Danish, Norwegian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Slovenian, Estonian or Slovakian speakers. Basically, if the EU sees fit that a country of 600,000 people like Montenegro should be an independent state, then so should Catalonia, a nation of 6 million!