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Navarra GROWS when we decide from here
The Chartered Community (Comunidad Foral) regains control of traffic policing on its road after 64 years
Government of Navarre
autogobierno.navarra.es
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(Found on an A4 leaflet in a local Pamplona newspaper – image:
https://postimg.cc/47dwt2ys)
'Foral' refers to the historical fueros - local laws and privileges - granted to Navarre and the Basque Country. Fueros predate the Spanish state.
Isaac Piano and I often discuss how regions may re-emerge as Europe’s main polity (
https://youtu.be/2EG4Meh-kvA?) Spain and Germany are evolving in that direction. France or Italy may fragment abruptly. Regions like Navarre, Euskadi, and Catalonia are advancing internal autonomy while still linked to Madrid economically and for foreign affairs. Others could follow: León, Galicia, Valencia.
The façade of the Palace of Navarre reads: Pro libertate patria gens libera stat. (For the freedom of the homeland, a free people stand)