Italy fears that a neighboring country may be stoking Europe’s next secessionist crisis

BERLIN — This was the year Europe's secessionist movements stalled, defying many predictions: Scotland's pro-independence party suffered electoral losses, and Catalonia's secessionists have so far mainly divided their own region instead of Spain. But as Catalonia headed into regional elections this week — ultimately empowering pro-independence parties with a slim majority on Thursday, even though secession remains unlikely — another country in the south […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/12/22/italy-fears-that-a-neighboring-country-may-be-stoking-europes-next-secessionist-crisis/