Brussels, 09/04/2014 (Agence Europe) - Spanish MPs have little sympathy for Catalan plans for a referendum on self-determination, which appears to be increasingly unlikely to take place. The Spanish parliament as a block rejected by 299 vote against, with 47 votes for and 1 abstention, the Catalan demand for the transfer of the powers of the central state to the autonomous region to organise a referendum on the subject on 9 November. Although this result was to be expected, it did, however,...