November 27, 2017

The ousted Catalan leader came under pressure from his own pro-independence party today after suggesting that Catalonia should be allowed a vote to quit the European Union.

Carles Puigdemont said that Brussels was a “club of decadent and obsolescent countries controlled by a small few and closely linked to increasingly debatable economic interests”. He added that the EU was “insensitive to the abuse of human rights” and the democratic wishes of its citizens.

His comments are rich with irony, given that he fled to Brussels to fight extradition to Spain, and also because the case for Catalan independence rests in large part on the idea of the region thriving outside Spain but within the EU.

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/puigdemont-calls-for-catalonia-to-leave-eu-zsfj96ph0