Calls for secession are a blow to fiscal union hopes

Calls for independence from the richest regions of Spain, Belgium and Italy threaten to blow big holes in the public finances of the three economies. And more fundamentally, growing public aversion to transfers within countries highlights the difficulties that policymakers face in moving towards the wider fiscal union that many have deemed necessary to keep the euro-zone together.

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