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Financial Times: Time to Tackle the Catalonia crisis
Forceful editorial calls out Mariano Rajoy and says it is disingenuous of him to hide behind the Spanish constitution
Time to tackle the Catalonia crisis
Split from Spain would be an error but autonomy is needed
Spain is starting to emerge from the crisis that
has blighted the country, with recent data showing the economy growing
at its fastest rate in six years. But one political issue casts a shadow
over the nation’s political future and shows no sign of resolution: the
demand by millions of Catalans for independence.
The cause of Catalan independence has ebbed and
flowed in Spanish politics for nearly a century. But in the past few
years the Catalans, now 7.5m strong, have voiced their secessionist
demands more forcefully than ever. Polls show that almost half of the Catalan people favour independence and about 75 per cent want a referendum on the issue.
Financial Times Editorial: Time to Tackle the Catalonia Crisis
