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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10923

18 September 2013
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) catalonia
Commission says Catalonia must leave EU if it leaves Spain

Brussels, 17/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - European Competition Commissioner, Spaniard Joaquin Almunia, took a very firm line on Monday 16 September about Catalonia's bid to secede from Spain. “If one part of a territory of a member state decides to separate, the separated part isn't a member of the European Union”, he explained. He was reacting to the secessionist movement in Catalonia, where a million people joined hands to form a human chain on the Spanish region's national day (11...

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