CATALONIA -- Leaders of Spain, Catalonia Hold Secession Talks - ABC News
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"Pro-independence sentiment in Catalonia has grown greatly in recent
years, fueled by a sense that the region deserves better economic and
political treatment from Madrid. The surge stems from June 2010 when the
Constitutional Court struck down key parts of a groundbreaking charter
that would have granted Catalonia more autonomy and recognized it as a
nation within Spain."
