Sinn Féin leader: 'Europe should engage with Catalonia's self-determination'

The leader of the Irish republican party Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald, believes that the EU should make a move in the Catalan conflict.

"The responsible thing for Europe to do is not to side down Catalonia and this question of democracy and self-determination, but to engage with it," she said talking to the Catalan News Agency (ACN) in Brussels.

"That is a thing that would not only benefit the people of Catalonia, and the people of Spain, but it could also bring confidence to the citizens of Europe that their institutions are able to listen" she added.

For her, the Spanish government should also admit that Catalonia has a right to vote in an independence referendum.