Brussels, 12/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - The central Spanish government was unmoved by the demonstration by 500,000 Catalans, calling for a referendum on 9 November on self-determination for their region.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's only reaction to the national Catalan day, the Diada (see EUROPE 1115), was a short tweet making reference to a heart transplant centre he visited that same day: “Solidarity allows an Andalusian to live with the heart of a Catalan and vice versa. This...