Belgium and the Netherlands Swap Land, and Remain Friends
The comment at the bottom of the article reminds me why secession is virtually impossible in most places in the world. Any such attempts falter because they're instantly declared unconstitutional by the parent country.<p>The global community encourages this kind of status quo because many countries worry their ethnic minority will be next.<p>The only way sadly still seems to be decades of bloodshed before the host population gets fed up enough to let them go.<p>I don't only mean developing countries like Sudan either. It took until 1998 for the Belfast agreement to be signed over Northern Ireland for example.