The European Commission’s first vice-president and a spokesperson attempted on Friday 15 September to clarify comments by the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, on 14 September on the referendum in the autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain, explaining that the Commission remained true to the Prodi line. Catalonia’s permanent representative to the EU, however, says that the Commission’s line has changed.
Speaking in French, the president of the Commission...