Scottish nationalists are not the only ones trying to redraw the map of Europe. Here are 10 other countries with serious independence movements.

The apparent resurgence of the independence movement in Catalonia finds echoes among other minority nationalist groups in Europe.

In Scotland, residents will vote next September on whether their homeland should become an independent country or remain part of the United Kingdom. In Catalonia, Spain, provincial president Artur Mas has called for a referendum on whether Catalonia should become a sovereign state. And in the Belgian province of Flanders, the leader of the ruling party has called for negotiations that would “enable both Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia to look after their own affairs.”

Independence movements in these regions of Britain, Belgium and Spain are raising concerns about the stability of a fractious European Union trying to forge closer ties to prevent economic catastrophe.

The article discusses the history of walls, addressing the November 2009 anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Apartheid Wall separating Israel from the West Bank. The author suggests that walls represent a dangerous political mentality and describes several historical wall barriers including the Belfast Peace Lines separating Catholic and Protestant areas in Northern Ireland, a wall separating Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara from Polisario, and the Great Wall of China.