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"Barcelona and Madrid need to engage in constructive dialogue" (Photo: Helena Spongenberg)

Madrid, Barcelona and the war of Spanish secession

On the day Germans will be celebrating reunification, Spaniards will be focused on whether their country is about to fall apart.

On Sunday, 9 November, Catalonia, Spain’s most prosperous region, will vote in a non-binding consultative referendum on whether to secede from the rest of the country.

Even though Artur Mas, president of the Catalan government in Barcelona, had promised a fully-fledged referendum, his plans were thwarted when the Spanish constitutional court ruled last...

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"Barcelona and Madrid need to engage in constructive dialogue" (Photo: Helena Spongenberg)

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