11-Oct-17 TV News: ‘Rajoy opens door to suspending self-government’
Ping-Pong - that's what the Catalan and Spanish government seem to be playing, right now. If yesterday, the Catalan president suspended a declaration of independence in an attempt to seek dialogue, today the Spanish one asked for clarification. He warned that if independence was, even for a second, actually declared, it might strip Catalonia of its self-government. And while Barcelona insists on the need for international mediation, Madrid says 'no way.’ / ACN