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35 published cases matching Europe.
Independence movements
Occitània
Occitan regionalist and nationalist politics in southern France, spanning the Occitan Nation Party's 1959 independence demand and the larger, autonomist Occitan Party founded in 1987, within a region that has no unified administrative status.
Independence movements
The Padanian nationalist movement associated with Lega Nord, from its 1991 founding and the symbolic 1996 declaration of independence, to the party's later return to federalism and, under Matteo Salvini since 2013, its transformation into the national party Lega.
Independence movements
Republika Srpska's status as one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the 1995 Dayton Agreement, the 2021-2025 legislative attempts by its government to withdraw from joint state institutions, and the 2025 conviction and removal of President Milorad Dodik.
Independence movements
Sardigna
Sardinia's special autonomous status within Italy since 1948, its fragmented landscape of small pro-independence parties, and their marginal result at the 2024 regional election.
Independence movements
The debate over Scottish independence and self-government within the United Kingdom, from the 1707 Union to the 2014 referendum and the renewed referendum demand of 2026.
Independence movements
Sicilia
Sicily's special autonomous status within Italy since the 1946 Statute, granted in response to the 1940s separatist and armed unrest led by the Movement for the Independence of Sicily (MIS), and the marginal modern revival of that movement.
Independence movements
Ślōnsk
The Silesian autonomy and minority-recognition movement in Poland, from the historic 1920-1945 autonomous Silesian Voivodeship, through the Silesian Autonomy Movement's (RAŚ) founding and shifting programme, to repeated Sejm rejections of Silesian minority recognition.
Historical independence
Slovenia's declaration of independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991, following a December 1990 plebiscite, and UN admission in May 1992.
Independence movements
Südtirol
South Tyrol's autonomy within Italy, from the 1946 Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement and 1960s unrest through UN involvement, the 1972 Second Statute and its 1992 "quietus", to the marginal modern independence movement and the SVP's continued but declining dominance.
Independence movements
Veneto
Veneto's path from an unofficial 2014 online independence poll and the Constitutional Court's 2015 bar on a binding independence vote, through the overwhelming 2017 official autonomy referendum, to a preliminary agreement on differentiated autonomy signed with the Italian state in November 2025.
Independence movements
The debate over Welsh devolution and independence within the United Kingdom, from the 1979 and 1997 referendums to the 2011 powers referendum, the 2024 constitutional commission and Plaid Cymru's 2026 election win.