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Is Pedro Sánchez (pictured on election poster) afraid concessions will cost him the next election? Catalan autonomy is unpopular in the rest of Spain (Photo: Helena Spongenberg)

Sánchez takes risk by snubbing Catalans

At what point will Catalonia's Republican Left decide enough is enough?

The separatists have kept Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez in power for two-and-a-half years, but they have little to show for it.

The most moderate of Catalonia's three independence parties, the Republicans, decided to give compromise a chance after the unilateral attempt to break away from Spain in 2017 failed and the rest of the country swapped the anti-Catalan conservative prime minister Mariano Rajoy ...

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Nick Ottens is the editor of the transatlantic opinion website Atlantic Sentinel and a columnist for the Netherlands’ Wynia’s Week. He reported from Catalonia for three years.

Is Pedro Sánchez (pictured on election poster) afraid concessions will cost him the next election? Catalan autonomy is unpopular in the rest of Spain (Photo: Helena Spongenberg)

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Nick Ottens is the editor of the transatlantic opinion website Atlantic Sentinel and a columnist for the Netherlands’ Wynia’s Week. He reported from Catalonia for three years.

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