Brussels, 11/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - For the third time, Catalans have celebrated Diada, their national day, in Barcelona on Thursday 11 September. Five hundred thousand people took to the streets to call for an independence referendum to be held on 9 November.
The date of the plebiscite has been set by the Catalan government, but Madrid has ruled out any possibility of a referendum, arguing that the Spanish constitution guarantees the unity of the country. At the rally in Barcelona...