Name the autonomous region of NE Spain which periodically is subject to strong independence lobbying?
Spain's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence a division within the institution on the issue of Kosovo's independence". In May 2009 José García-Margallo y Marfil, Spanish member of the EU parliament, said that Spain does not recognise Kosovo because of principles related to Spain's Galicia, Basque, and Catalonia autonomous communities. However he also stressed that these Spanish autonomous communities are not comparable with Kosovo which is fundamentally different. García-Margallo said that despite Spain's non-recognition of Kosovo it will continue to support Kosovo and its development. On 14 May 2009, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, head of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) list for the European Parliament Elections
Culture of Spain Spanish nationalist feeling, have strong regional identities: Cantabria, Rioja, and Extremadura. There are also the cases of Madrid, an administrative autonomous community between the two Castiles; the two north African autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and the autonomous community of Murcia. Castile was the core kingdom under which Spain eventually unified after centuries of evolution and incorporations. Yet there are also strong movements in the provinces of the extinct region of Leon, pushing to separate from Castile and León. Spain has a long history of tension between centralism and nationalism. The current organisation of the state into autonomous communities