The Manila Times

Madrid dealt blow as Catalan divide widens

- AFP

BARCELONA: With their leaders in exile or jail, Catalan separatist­s scrambled on Friday (Saturday in -

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that has rattled a Europe already

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He also called on the European -

“I only demand to the European Commission or other Eu- ropean institutio­ns, to listen, to listen to the Catalan people, not only the Spanish state,” he told

equal to the Spanish prime minister

Rajoy rejected the call to meet

The European Commission

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intends to rule remains a mys

Other independen­ce leaders, deputy Oriol Junqueras, are be

- panded a probe into the secessioni­st bid to include another six independen­ce

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