Talk:Souverainism

Souverainism only French?
Just a comment, the souverainism is an expression also used by Swiss for the UDC. Pixeltoo 11:08, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree, so it also seems unnecessarily narrow for this to be part of the France portal. Although the term is of French origin, like laissez-faire or coup d'etat, it's now a general political term that can be applied to such a movement in any country. RCTodd (talk) 12:40, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

English: Sovereigntism
I've added links to sovereigntist and sovereignty-association, which are important terms in Canada, where we also have "Sovereigntism", which I'll add in blod-face to the opening as the French form of hte word is not used in CAnadian English. There is no French interwiki at the sovereigntist article and I'm not sure it should be directed to the French version of this article; and at the French version of this article, there is no room to direct it to the sovereigntist article. Also please note the addition of the usage in PM Harper's speech on Wednesday evening; any number of news outlets may be used for the citation if needed.Skookum1 (talk) 14:34, 5 December 2008 (UTC
 * Also please see Talk:2008_Canadian_parliamentary_dispute and note existing discussion re merge at Talk:SovereigntistSkookum1 (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

European Souverainism
European Souverainism is described in a wrong way, as calling for a confederal Europe. Souverainist parties want their countries to leave the EU, so this phrase has no-sense. Italian Lega Nord is both a federalist and a souverainist party, so also opposing federalism to souverainism is wrong. I'm not informed enough about that, but I think that Syriza and the other Greek left party are not souverainist, while the Hungarian Fidesz, the Polish PiS, the British UKIP, the Austrian FPÖ and the Democrats of Sweden should be included for sure. The page can be improved translating the Italian or French Wikipedia. --87.21.234.253 (talk) 10:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I doubt there is a real need to define "European souverainism", let alone adopt "souverainism" as a meaningful ideology regarding the EU when we already have "Euroscepticism", "national conservatism", etc. Some Italian journalists and politicians have started to use sovranismo, as well as German ones Souveränismus, but there is no need to import terms when the aforementioned ideologies are already available. The term comes from French souverainisme and has been used mainly in Canada regarding the Quebec independence movement and, more recently, in France regarding Eurosceptic, mostly Gaullist parties and/or attitudes. All this is worth of mention, but let's not exaggerate the importance/circulation of the term, let alone talk of "European souverainism". --Checco (talk) 11:09, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Sovereigntism is by far the dominantly used term excepting perhaps French speaking political contexts
Wikipedia's naming guidelines state that the title of an article should generally use the version of the name of the subject that is most common in the English language. It is true that Souverainism is used often in the context of articles on France or French speaking populations in Canada. However in political science journals and books, the ideology of sovereignty as a global phenomenon outside of those contexts is almost universally referred to as Sovereigntism. As an empirical measure, the number of hits in Scholar.google.com shows 1070 for the anglicized term, and 100 for the french form. For this reason it makes sense to adjust the title of the article accordingly in the coming weeks.J JMesserly (talk) 02:42, 1 July 2022 (UTC)