As far as Belgium goes, the French part could go to France, the Dutch part to the Netherlands and the few German town to Germany.
A Belgian acquaintance of mine told me once that the Flemish and the Walloons would have split a long time ago if it were not for the problem of dividing Brussels.
As far as the UK and Spain go, I think it's largely about them treating their minorities better.
In case of the UK, it seems that the Scots are actually in a more privileged position than the English.
In case of Spain there is an additional (and possibly crucial) issue of Catalan and Basque regions being more economically developed than the rest of Spain. In case of their independence the Spanish government would lose a lot of money in taxes.
Germany works quite well without any of the Finnish speaking people wanting to secede.
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