Catalonia's fiscal feud with Spain

With the recent appointment of Pere Aragonès as president of the Generalitat, and the Republican Left Party of Catalonia (ERC) forming a pro-independence coalition with Junts, Catalan independence is once again a hot topic.

That discussion amplified last month, with talks of a potential pardon after a Supreme Court report on the Catlan political prisoners.

With an imminent face-to-face meeting between prime minist...