[Updated on 8 September at 8.30] The Spanish government vowed on Thursday (7 September) to block Catalonia's independence referendum, called for 1 October, and threatened to launch legal proceedings against the region's leaders.
"There will be no self-determination referendum in Catalonia," Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy said after an emergency cabinet meeting in Madrid.
The Spanish Constitutional Court later the same day suspended a referendum law that had been Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting memberGet EU news that matters